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

                                
                                  And foly is halden [now] wysdome,
                                
                                  With proud men and unbowsome.
                                
                                  Now es luff turned tyll lychery,
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                                  And ryghtwisnes tyll tyrauntry;
                                
                                  Þus es þis world turned up þat es doune,
                                
                                  Tyll many mans dampnacyoune,
                                
                                  Þe wilk folowes þe worlde swa fraward;
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                                  And þarfore þai mon fele payne ful hard,
                                
                                  After þis lyfe þat þai here lede,
                                
                                  And þat aght þam gretly to drede.
                                
                                  Bot it semes þat swilk men er wode,
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                                  For þai hald gud thing evell and evell gude;
                                
                                  Wa sall þam be, als we here clerkes tell,
                                
                                  Fforwhi Crist says in þe gosspell:
                                
                                    Ve vobis qui dicitis malum bonum,
                                  
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                                    et bonum malum!
                                  
                                  He says: "wa till yhow þat says with will
                                
                                  Þat ille es gud and gud es ill;"
                                
                                  Þat es to say þam sall be wa
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                                  Þat here mysturnes þair lyfe swa.
                                
                                  Þus es þe world, and þe lyfe þare-in,
                                
                                  Fful of vanyté and of syn.
                                
                                  Bot som men lufes þis lyfe swa mykell
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                                  And þe world þat is swa fykell,
                                
                                  Þat þai wald never part þar-fra,
                                
                                  Bot lyfe here ay, if it moght be swa;
                                
                                  For þai luf swa þis worldes vanyté
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                                  Þat þai wald never other lyfe suld be.
                                
                                  Þai will noght knaw þe peryls all
                                
                                  Of þis lyfe, ne what after sall fall;
                                
                                  Bot for þai life here in delices sere
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                                  Þai think no hevene es bot here,
                                
                                  Bot at þe last, when þair lyfe sall stynt,
                                
                                  Þan sall all ioy be fra þam tynt.
                                
                                  Bot wald a man understand wele
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                                  What þis world es and what he sall fele,
                                
                                  When he sall wend fra þis world oway,
                                
                                  Him suld noght lyst, nouther nyght ne day,

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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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