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

                                
                                  Þatt ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Inn ure mennisscnesse
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                                  Toc þildiliȝ wiþþutenn bracc,
                                
                                  Þatt mann himm band wiþþ woȝhe,
                                
                                  Rihht all swa summ þe shep onfoþ
                                
                                  Meocliȝ, þatt mann itt clippeþþ;
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu cwennkesst i þe sellf,
                                  Line 1190 
                                
                                  & læresst me to cwennkenn
                                
                                  Inn me — galnessess fule stinnch
                                
                                  & hire fule lusstess,
                                
                                  & follȝhesst aȝȝ clænnessess sloþ,
                                
                                  & læresst me to follȝhenn,
                                  Line 1195 
                                
                                  Þa lakesst tu Drihhtin wiþþ ga¯¯t
                                
                                  Gastlike i þine þæwess,
                                
                                  Swa — þatt itt maȝȝ wel hellpenn þe
                                
                                  To winnenn Godess are;
                                
                                  For ga¯¯t iss, þatt witt tu full wel,
                                  Line 1200 
                                
                                  Gal deor, & stinnkeþþ fule,
                                
                                  & forrþi tacneþþ itt full wel
                                
                                  Galnessess háte stinnchess.
                                
                                  & forrþi sinndenn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt shulenn inntill helle
                                  Line 1205 
                                
                                  Effnedd wiþþ gæ¯¯t, & nemmnedd gæ¯¯t,
                                
                                  O Goddspellbokess lare,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt sinness fule stinnch
                                
                                  Shall shædenn hemm fra Criste.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu follȝhesst skill & shæd
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                                  & witt i gode þæwess,
                                
                                  & hafesst ȝe¯¯t, tohh þu be ȝung,
                                
                                  Elldernemanness láte,

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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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