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

                                
                                  & þurrh clænnesse cwemenn Godd,
                                
                                  Illc an onn hire wise;
                                
                                  Forr all þatt follȝheþþ unnclænleȝȝc
                                
                                  All iss Drihhtin unncweme.
                                
                                  Her speke icc off unnclene menn
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                                  & off unnclene gastess;
                                
                                  & horedom iss Drihhtin laþ,
                                
                                  & deofell swiþe cweme,
                                
                                  Forr deofell iss unnclene gast,
                                
                                  & lufeþþ unnclænnesse.
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                                  Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfo¯¯t
                                
                                  Galnessess laþe strenncþe,
                                
                                  & all þe lusst off horedom
                                
                                  Itt drifeþþ fra þin herrte,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu lufesst itt
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                                  & follȝhesst itt wiþþ dede.
                                
                                  Þe þridde mahht iss hæfedd mahht
                                
                                  Þatt tu þweorrt u¯¯t forrwerrpe
                                
                                  To ȝeornenn affterr weorelldþing,
                                
                                  To winnenn itt wiþþ sinne.
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                                  Wiþþ þiss mahht mahht tu witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Wel follȝhenn Cristess posstless,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þu forrwerrpesst grediȝleȝȝc,
                                
                                  & follȝhesst Cristess wille;
                                
                                  Forr þeȝȝ forrwurrpenn all þweorrt u¯¯t
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                                  To winnenn ohht wiþþ sinne,
                                
                                  & stodenn inn to follȝhenn Crist
                                
                                  All att hiss lefe wille.
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu ȝeornesst weorelldþing
                                
                                  To winnenn ohht wiþþ sinne,

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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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