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

                                
                                  Þis wordes by þam may be sayd here,
                                
                                  Þat wil noght understand ne lere
                                
                                  To drede God and to do his wille,
                                
                                  Bot folowes þair likyng and lyves ille.
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                                  Som understandes als þai here telle,
                                
                                  Bot na drede in þair hertes may dwelle,
                                
                                  And thurgh defaut of trouthe þat may be;
                                
                                  For þai trow nathyng bot þat þai se,
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                                  But groches when þai dredful thyng here;
                                
                                  Þarfor þe prophet says on þis manere:
                                
                                    Non crediderunt
                                  
                                    et murmuraverunt.
                                  
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                                  Þe prophet sayd "þai trowed noght,
                                
                                  And groched" and was angred, in thoght;
                                
                                  Þus er many þat trowes na thyng
                                
                                  Þat men þam says ogayn þair likyng,
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                                  Bot groches gretly and waxes fraward,
                                
                                  When men says oght, þat þam thynk hard.
                                
                                  Som can se in buk swilk thyng and rede,
                                
                                  Bot lightnes of hert reves þam drede,
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                                  Swa þat it may noght with þam dwelle
                                
                                  And þarfor says God þus in þe gospelle:
                                
                                    Quia ad tempus credunt, et in tempore
                                  
                                    temptacionis recedunt.
                                  
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                                  "Til a tyme", he says, "some trowes a thyng
                                
                                  And passes þar-fra in þe tyme of fandyng."
                                
                                  Alswa þos says þe prophet David,
                                
                                  In a psalme þat cordes þar-wyth:
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                                    Et crediderunt in verbis eius. et lau|
                                  
                                    daverunt laudem eius, cito, fecerunt
                                  
                                    et obliti sunt opera eius.
                                  
                                  He says, "in his wordes, trowed þai
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                                  And loved his lovyng als þai couth say,
                                
                                  But tyte þai had don, and forgat
                                
                                  His werkes, and thoght na mar of þat;"
                                
                                  Swilk men er ay swa unstedfast,
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                                  Þat na drede may with þam last,

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

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