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

                                
                                  Now er men wele, now er men wa,
                                  Line 1452 
                                
                                  Now es a man frende, now es he faa;
                                
                                  Now es a man light, now es [he] hevy,
                                
                                  Now es he blithe, now es he drery;
                                
                                  Now haf we ioy, now haf we pyn,
                                  Line 1456 
                                
                                  Now we wyn, now we tyn;
                                
                                  Now er we ryche, now er we pur,
                                
                                  Now haf we or litel, now pas we mesur;
                                
                                  Now er we bigg, now er we bare, ['Now es he riche and now es he bare.' MS. Addit 11305.] 
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  Now er we hale, now seke and sare;
                                
                                  Now haf we rest and now travail,
                                
                                  Now we fande our force, now we fail;
                                
                                  Now er we smert, now er we slawe,
                                  Line 1464 
                                
                                  Now er we heghe, now er we lawe;
                                
                                  Now haf we ynogh, now haf we noght,
                                
                                  Now er we aboven, and now doun broght;
                                
                                  Now haf we pees, now haf we were,
                                  Line 1468 
                                
                                  Now eese us a thyng, now fele we it dere;
                                
                                  Now lofe we, now hate, now saghtel, now strife.
                                
                                  Þer er þe maners here of þis lyfe,
                                
                                  Þe whilk er takens of [þe] unstabelnes
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  Of þis worldis lyfe, þat chaungeable es.
                                
                                  Bot als þis lyfe es ay passand,
                                
                                  Swa es þe worlde, ilk day, apayrand;
                                
                                  For þe world til þe endewarde fast drawes,
                                  Line 1476 
                                
                                  Als clerkes by many takens knawes.
                                
                                  Þarfor þe world, þat clerkes sees þus helde,
                                
                                  Es als mykel to say als þe wer elde. ['Þis world þat we seo þus heldeIs not but þis worldes elde.' MS. Addit 11305.
] 
                                
                                  Twa erthely worldes til þis life falles,
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                                  Als es sayd by-for, þat clerkes calles
                                
                                  Þe mare world of erthe, and þe les;
                                
                                  Ful chaungeable ayther world es.
                                
                                  Þe mare world es þis world brade,
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                                  And þe les es man, for wham it es made,

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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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