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Rolle, Richard (1290?-1349)

Poems of Ms. Cambr. Dd V. 64, fol. 134–142.

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Appendix I. (2 Charms for the tooth-ache.)

I. A charme for þe tethe-werke.

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VII. [All synnes sal þou hate, thorow castyng of skylle]

All synnes sal þou hate, thorow castyng of skylle,
And ȝherne to gang in þe gate þat es with-owten ille.
Tumbyl noght fra þe state þat þou hase tane þe tille:
It ledes til þe kynges ȝhate, þare þou may layke þi fille.

Here if þou punysch, þe, welth sall þow wynne;
Na wonder it es if þou be in sorow for þi synne.
Somme says þai may se, & blynd ar wyth-Inne:
And if þai now be sett fre, dede sall þam twynne.

Dede dynges al sa sare, þat nane may [hym] defende,
And makes many ill to fare, when þai not wende.
I wate nane þat he will spare, with all will he lende:
For-þi of syn̄ make þe bare, þou knawes not þi ende.

Now may we qwake trembiland, for drede to law ly:
Þe beme blawes at owre hand, þe dome es fast by;
Þe keyng comes with hys hoste, to fell his enmy,
And al þe prowde wyth þair boste, he demes to dy.

Me thynkes it rynges in mi nere: “dede ryse, to be demed!”
Bot hym þe deuel may noght dere, þat here hase Criste qwemed.
Al þe wikked in þat were til hel-fire es flemed,
Þe keyng hym-self schot þe spere, for hym it best semed.

Þat day owre ioy sal be-gyn, þat here suffers pyne,
Owre flesch wytt of mykel wyn, & bryght as son̄ schyne;
Owre setels heuen ar with-in—me lyst sytt in myne.
Lufe Criste & hate syn, & sa pur[ch]es þe þine.