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

                                
                                  Þeȝȝ ummbeshærenn Cristess shapp
                                
                                  All alls himm sellf itt wollde,
                                
                                  & he wass o þatt illke daȝȝ
                                
                                  Off ehhte daȝhess elde;
                                
                                  & tatt daȝȝ iss New Ȝeress daȝȝ
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                                  Mang Enngleþeode nemmnedd.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  Þatt all wass clene off sinne,
                                
                                  Toc onn hiss aȝhenn bodiȝ swa
                                
                                  Þatt alde follkess hellpe,
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                                  Þatt hemm wass sett þurrh Drihhtin þa
                                
                                  To clennsenn hemm off sinne,
                                
                                  Þatt dide he forr he wollde swa
                                
                                  Uss alle ȝifenn bisne,
                                
                                  Þatt uss birrþ, affterr ure mahht,
                                  Line 4240 
                                
                                  Aȝȝ stanndenn inn to follȝhenn
                                
                                  All þatt uss hafeþþ Drihhtin sett
                                
                                  Till ure sawless hellpe.
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ ummbeshærenn swa
                                
                                  Þe shapp off cnapechilldre,
                                  Line 4245 
                                
                                  Þatt wass hemm swa þurrh Drihhtin sett,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn,
                                
                                  Þatt uss birrþ clippenn all aweȝȝ
                                
                                  Þe flæshess fule wille,
                                
                                  Þatt allre werrst & allre mast
                                  Line 4250 
                                
                                  Werdeþþ þe wrecche sawle,
                                
                                  Þurrh all þatt fĕle kinne gillt
                                
                                  Þatt i þa limess rixsleþþ,
                                
                                  I weppmenn & i wifmenn ec,
                                
                                  Inn ȝunge, & ec inn alde.

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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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