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

                                
                                  & teȝȝ þa didenn bliþeliȝ,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe boc hemm tahhte,
                                
                                  & brohhtenn tweȝȝenn bukkess þær
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                                  Drihhtin þærwiþþ to lakenn.
                                
                                  & att te kirrkedure toc
                                
                                  Þe preost ta tweȝȝenn bukkess,
                                
                                  & o þatt an he leȝȝde þær
                                
                                  All þeȝȝre sake & sinne,
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                                  & le¯¯t itt eornenn forþwiþþ all
                                
                                   [col 37] U¯¯t inntill wilde wesste;
                                
                                  & toc & snaþ þatt oþerr bucc
                                
                                  Drihhtin þærwiþþ to lakenn.
                                
                                  All þiss wass don forr heore ned,
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                                  & ec forr ure nede;
                                
                                  Forr hemm itt hallp biforenn Godd
                                
                                  To clennsenn hemm off sinne,
                                
                                  & all swa maȝȝ itt hellpenn þe,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu willt [itt] follȝhenn.
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                                  Ȝiff þatt tu willt full innwarrdliȝ
                                
                                  Wiþþ fulle trowwþe lefenn
                                
                                  All þatt tatt wass bitacnedd tær,
                                
                                  To lefenn & to trowwenn,
                                
                                  Þa maȝȝ þatt trowwþe firrþrenn þe
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                                  To winnenn Godess are.
                                
                                  Þa tweȝȝenn bukkess tacnenn uss
                                
                                  An Godd off twinne kinde,
                                
                                  Þatt iss þe Laferrd Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  Þatt iss off twinne kinde.

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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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