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

                                
                                  Another for the tane may noght do
                                  Line 1856 
                                
                                  Bot if þe tother help þar-to;
                                
                                  Þe thred for þai bathe togider sal come
                                
                                  Byfor God at þe day of dome;
                                
                                  Þe ferthe, for when þai er comen theder,
                                  Line 1860 
                                
                                  Þai sal ay after duel togider.
                                
                                  Þarfor þair payne and sorow es mare
                                
                                  When þe tane sal fra þe tother fare.
                                
                                  Þis twynnyng may be cald þe dede,
                                  Line 1864 
                                
                                  Þat fleyghes about fra sted til stede
                                
                                  Thurgh alle landes, fer and nere,
                                
                                  And spares nan of wham he has powere,
                                
                                  For prayer ne gyfte þat men may gyfe.
                                  Line 1868 
                                
                                  Whare he comes he lattes nane lyfe,
                                
                                  Ne for luf ne awe er nane sparde;
                                
                                  For þe dede til na man tas rewarde,
                                
                                  Ne riche ne pover he spars, hegh ne law,
                                  Line 1872 
                                
                                  Þat he ne þe lyf wil fra þam draw,
                                
                                  Þe dede has mercy of na wight,
                                
                                  Als Saynt Bernard þus shewes right:
                                
                                    Non miseretur mors inopie,
                                  
                                  Line 1876 
                                
                                    non reveretur diviciis, non sa|
                                  
                                    piencie, non moribus,
                                  
                                    non etati.
                                  
                                  He says "þe dede of povert na mercy has,
                                  Line 1880 
                                
                                  Ne to ryches ne [No (MS. Harl. 4196).]  reward tas,
                                
                                  Ne til wysdom þat wyse men schewes,
                                
                                  Ne til elde of man ne til gude thewes."
                                
                                  Dede wil na frendshepe do ne favour,
                                  Line 1884 
                                
                                  Ne reverence til kyng ne til emperour,
                                
                                  Ne til pape, ne til bisshope, ne na prelate,
                                
                                  Ne til nan other man of heghe estate,
                                
                                  Ne til na religiouse, ne til na seculere,
                                  Line 1888 
                                
                                  For dede over al men has powere.
                                
                                  And thurgh þe dede hand al sal pas,
                                
                                  Als Salamon says, þat wyse was:
                                
                                    Communionem
                                  
                                  Line 1892 
                                
                                    mortis scito.

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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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