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

                                
                                  God ord[a]ynd anly for our byhufe,
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                                  By þis skille, als I can prufe.
                                
                                  Þe ayre fra þeþen, and þe heat of þe son
                                
                                  Sustayns þe erthe here, þar we won,
                                
                                  And nurisshes alle thyng þat fruyt gyves,
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                                  And confortes best, and man, and alle þat lyves;
                                
                                  And tempers our kynde and our complexioun,
                                
                                  And settes þe tymes of yhere in seson,
                                
                                  And gyfes us light here, whar we duelle,
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                                  Elles war þis world myrk als helle;
                                
                                  Yhit þe bodys of þe world in þair kynde,
                                
                                  Shewes us for bisens to haf in mynde,
                                
                                  How we suld serve God in our kynde here,
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                                  Als þai do þar, on þair manere.
                                
                                  Þe lawest world was alswa made for man,
                                
                                  For þis skylle, als clerkes shew can;
                                
                                  For þat man suld be þar-in wonnand,
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                                  Goddes werkes to se and undirstand,
                                
                                  And his commandmentes and his wille
                                
                                  To knawe, and kepe, and to fulfille,
                                
                                  And to be proved here in gastly batayls,
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                                  Of gastly enmys þat man oft assayls;
                                
                                  Swa þat þurgh gastly strenth and victori,
                                
                                  He may be made in þis world worthy
                                
                                  To haf þe coroun of blisse endeles
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                                  In þe blisful world þat heghest es.
                                
                                  Twa worldes here to-gyder may falle
                                
                                  Þat men may erthely worldes calle.
                                
                                  An es þis dale, whar we er wonnand,
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                                  Another es man þar-in lyfand;
                                
                                  Þis dale whar we won thurgh, clerkes caldes
                                
                                  Þe mare world, and þe man þe les.
                                
                                  Of þe les world wil I noght speke yhit,
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                                  For aftirward I sal speke of it;
                                
                                  Bot of þe mare world yhit wil I mare say,
                                
                                  Ar I pas fra þis matir away;
                                
                                  Þan wil I after shew, als falles,
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                                  Skille why men a man world calles.

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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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