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

                                
                                  Þa winndwesst tu þin þrosshenn corn,
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                                  & fra þe chaff it shædesst,
                                
                                  & gaddresst swa þe clene corn
                                
                                  All fra þe chaff togeddre.
                                
                                  Forr þurrh þatt tatt tu læresst hemm
                                
                                  To ben sammtale & sahhte
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                                  To þeowwtenn an Allmahhtiȝ Godd
                                
                                  Wiþþ anfald rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  & aȝȝ to ben ummbenn þatt an
                                
                                  To winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tu sammnesst hemm i Godd,
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                                  Þu gaddresst corn togeddre.
                                
                                  Annd þurrh þatt tu primmseȝȝnesst hemm,
                                
                                  & spellesst hemm, & læresst
                                
                                  All to forrwerrpenn modiȝleȝȝc,
                                
                                  & harrd & grammcunnd herrte,
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                                  & aȝȝ to follȝhenn soþ meocleȝȝc
                                
                                  Wiþþ luffsumm æddmodnesse,
                                
                                  Þær þurrh þu brekesst wel þin corn,
                                
                                  & grindesst itt & nesshesst.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt tu fullhtnesst hemm
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                                  & unnderr waterr dippesst,
                                
                                  Þu sammnesst all þin mele inn an
                                
                                  & cnedesst itt togeddre,
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ shulenn alle ben
                                
                                  An bodiȝ & an sawle.
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                                   [col 41] & Jesu Crist himm sellf shall ben
                                
                                  Uppo þatt bodiȝ hæfedd,

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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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