The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.

                                
                                  & mare wass hiss bede wurrþ
                                
                                  Þann alle þeȝȝre lakess,
                                
                                  To lesenn & to clennsenn menn
                                
                                  Off alle kinne gillte,
                                
                                  & tohh swa þehh wass þeȝȝre lac,
                                  Line 1160 
                                
                                  Biforenn Cristess come,
                                
                                  Drihhtin full cweme inn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt Godess laȝhess heldenn.
                                
                                  & nu icc wile shæwenn ȝuw,
                                
                                  Wiþþ min Drihhtiness hellpe,
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                                  All hu ȝe muȝhenn lakenn Godd
                                
                                  Gastlike i gode þæwess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þatt Judewisshe lac
                                
                                  Þatt ȝuw her uppe iss shæwedd;·
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu follȝhesst soþ meocleȝȝc
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                                  & soþ unnshaþiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þa lakesst tu Drihhtin wiþþ shep
                                
                                  Gastlike i þine þæwess,
                                
                                   [col 34] Swa þatt itt maȝȝ wel hellpenn þe
                                
                                  To winnenn Godess are;
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                                  Forr shep iss all unnskaþefull
                                
                                  & stille der & liþe,
                                
                                  & makeþþ itt nan mikell bracc
                                
                                  Ȝiff mann itt wile bindenn,
                                
                                  Ne forrþenn þær mann cwelleþþ itt
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                                  Ne wiþþreþþ itt nohht swiþe.
                                
                                  & forrþi seȝȝþ þatt Latin boc,
                                
                                  Þatt þwerrt u¯¯t nohht ne leȝheþþ,

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Title: The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.
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Publication: Oxford :: At the Clarendon Press,; 1878.

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