Companion to the English prose works of Richard Rolle : a selection / from the edition by Carl Horstman.

Contemplacion bifore Non.

BI-fore Noon, þou schalt þenken of þe Passion & of þe Ascencion. Of þe passion, þou schalt þenken þat such tyme of þe day diȝede þe makere of lyf, for þi loue. Þenne þou schalt þenken of þe wordes þat he spac on þe Crois, and of ffoure signes þat fellen in his dyȝing. Þe ffurste spekyng was þis: «Fader, forȝif hem heore trespas, for þei wite not what þei don». Þe secunde was þat he seide to þe goode þef: «Forsoþe I sigge þe, þou schalt in to paradys þis day wiþ me». Þe þridde was þat he spac of his Moder to seint Ion: «Seo þer þi Moder», and to his Moder of his disciple: «Seo þere þi sone». Þe ffeorþe was: «I haue þhurst». Þe ffyfþe: Eloi, Eloi, lamaȝabatany, þat is to siggen: «Mi God, mi God, whi hast þou laft me?» Þe sixte was: Consummatum est, þat is to siggen: «Now hit is fulfild». Þe seuenþe was: «Fader, into þin honden I betake my spirit». Foure signes þer weren: þat al þe eorþe bi-gon to quaken; þe Veil of þe Temple clef a-two, and þe stones; þe graues openede, and þe dede arisen to lyue; þe sonne wiþ-drow his liht from þe world, from Midday til Noon. / Of þe Ascencion þou schalt þenken þat such tyme vre lord on þe Mount of Olyuete beforen his Moder and his disciples steiȝ in to heuene. And þei turned in to þe Cite, & were dwellyng þer-Inne in fastinge and in preyeres, til þei weore fuld of þe holigost, as ur lord hedde comaunded hem.