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

                                
                                  Ȝiff þu clænnesse follȝhesst rihht
                                
                                  Wiþþ bodiȝ & wiþþ herrte,
                                
                                  Þu follȝhesst ta, þatt witt tu wel,
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                                  An haliȝ hæfedd mahhte;
                                
                                  Forr þurrh þiss mahht shall maȝȝdennmann
                                
                                  Hehlike wurrþenn borrȝhenn,
                                
                                  & weddedd wĕre & weddedd wif
                                
                                  & widdwe shall itt berrȝhenn;
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                                  Forr maggdennhad & widdwesshad,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt iss rihht clene
                                
                                  Inn all þatt to þe bodiȝ liþ,
                                
                                  & ec i þeȝȝre wille,
                                
                                  & meoc, & daffte, & sedefull
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                                  I þæwess & i lusstess,
                                
                                  Itt beoþ hehlike witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh soþ clænnesse borrȝhenn.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt weddedd were & wif
                                
                                  Hemm laȝhelike ledenn
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                                  Bitwenenn hemm forr lufe off Godd,
                                
                                  Þa follȝhenn þeȝȝ clænnesse,
                                
                                   [col 115] & itt shall muȝhenn berrȝhenn hemm
                                
                                  Att heore lifess ende.
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ all Jesu Cristess hird,
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                                  Þatt iss o þreo todæledd,
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ itt follȝhenn soþ clænleȝȝc
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt shall ben borrȝhenn;
                                
                                  Forr maȝȝdennhad & widdwesshad
                                
                                  & weddlac birrþ ben clene,

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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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