The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.

                                
                                  Þe sext es of þe paynes of helle to neven;
                                
                                  And þe sevend part es of þe ioyes of heven.
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                                  In þir seven er sere materes drawen
                                
                                  Of sere bukes, of whilk som er unknawen,
                                
                                  Namly til lewed men of England,
                                
                                  Þat can noght bot Inglise undirstand;
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                                  Þarfor þis tretice drawe I wald
                                
                                  In Inglise tung þat may be cald
                                
                                  Prik of Conscience als men may fele,
                                
                                  For if a man it rede and understande wele,
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                                  And þe materes þar-in til hert wil take,
                                
                                  It may his conscience tendre make,
                                
                                  And til right way of rewel bryng it bilyfe,
                                
                                  And his hert til drede and mekenes dryfe,
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                                  And til luf and yhernyng of heven blis,
                                
                                  And to amende alle þat he has done mys.
                                
                                  For þe undirstandyng of þir maters seven,
                                
                                  Þat men may in þis buke se and neven,
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                                  May make a man knawe and halde in mynde,
                                
                                  What he es here of his awen kynde,
                                
                                  And what he sal be, if he avyse hym wele,
                                
                                  And whar he es, for to knaw and fele.
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                                  Yhit may he se when he it redes
                                
                                  What he es worthy for his dedes,
                                
                                  Whether he es worthy ioy or payne
                                
                                  Þis tretice may make hym be certayne,
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                                  For þar-in may he many thynges se,
                                
                                  Þat has bene, and es, and þat sal be;
                                
                                  Þus may þis tretice, with þe sentence,
                                
                                  Pryk and stirre a mans conscience,
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                                  And til mekenes and luf and drede it dryfe,
                                
                                  For to bring hym til ryght way of lyfe.
                                
                                  Of alle þeis I haf sere maters soght,
                                
                                  And in seven partes I haf þam broght,
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                                  Als es contende in þis tretice here,
                                
                                  Þat I haf drawen out of bukes sere,
                                
                                  Aftir I had in þam understandyng,
                                
                                  Alle-if I be of symple kunnyng.

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Title: The pricke of conscience (stimulus conscientiæ): a Northumbrian poem / by Richard Rolle de Hampole ; ed. Richard Morris.
Canvas: Page 257
Publication: Berlin :: Published for the Philological Society by A. Asher,; 1863.

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