...the twelfth-century poem of Bernard Morlanensis, a monk of Quay, beginning with the famous lines : " Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus. Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus." Bernard! Morlanensis, De contemptu mundi, ed. by Thos. Wright, Master of the Rolls Series, vol. 59...

...Apocalypse, both ancient and modern. This view is summed up in the great hymn of St. Bernard of Morlaix : Hora novissima tempora pessima sunt: vigilemus ! Ecce...coronet Recta remuneret anxia liberet aethera donet. Indeed, history itself in one sense bears witness to it, for the course of the world has been neither...

...hymnen. De wijs schijnt nagevolgd naar de bekende dreigende hymne die het laatste oordeel aankondigt: Hora novissima, Tempora pessima Sunt. Vigilemus. Ecce minaciter Imminet arbiter Ille supremus. De woorden vivificat en laetificat zijn eveneens aan de liturgie ontleend. Maar amicat — zou dat...

...tumble over one another ; here, for instance, is 'the couplet with which the poem abruptly opens : — Hora Novissima, tempora pessima sunt ; vigilemus ! Ecce minaciter imminet Arbiter Ille supremus. Let the words be read aloud, and it will be seen that the poet has interwoven six rhymes into the couplet....

...the original and at times sounds a bit thin and reedy beside the rolling organ tones of the Latin : Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus. Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. The world is very evil; The times are waxing late: Be sober and keep vigil; The Judge is at the gate....

...many insults and death. . . .] That will be so for ever and ever. Another stanza by the same Damian: Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus. Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. [It is the last hour; the times are at their worse: let us watch! Lo, that Supreme Judge looms threateningly.]...

...minor formatting changes. THIS FLEETING WORLD, THE JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, HELL, WARNINGS, AND EXHORTATIONS Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus. Ecce...donet. Auferat, aspera duraque pondera mentis onustae, 5 Sobria muniat, improba puniat, utraque iuste. — De Cont. Mun. 1.1-6. Tunc erit omnibus inspicientibus...

...follows; its eschatological passages are announced by an allusion to the New Testament (1 John 2:18): Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt — vigilemus! Ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus. [It is the final hour, the times are most wicked — be watchful! See, the highest judge menacingly...

...expressly ascribed to Pearsall in the preface, p. xxr. HORA novissima, tempora pessima sunt ; vigilemua. ecce minaciter imminet arbiter ille supremus, —...coronet, recta remuneret, anxia liberet, aethera donet. curre, vir optime ; lubrica reprime, praefer honesta, fletibus angere, flendo merebere caelica festa...

...edition of the Rhythm. Hora nwissima*. Translated by Rev. JM NEALE. No. 226. The world is very evil. Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt, vigilemus! Ecce!...ille supremus. Imminet, imminet, ut mala terminet, sequa coronet, Recta remuneret, anxia liberet, zethera donet. Curre, Vir optime, lubrica reprime, pnefer...