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

                                
                                  & forrþi birrþ þe lufenn mann
                                
                                  Þe bodiȝ & te sawle,
                                
                                  Forr þatt iss Godess handewerrc,
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                                  & god & aþell kinde;
                                
                                  Acc þe birrþ hatenn upponn me
                                
                                  All þatt tatt æfre iss sinne,
                                
                                  All þweorrt u¯¯t all swa summ þe birrþ
                                
                                  Itt hătenn o þe sellfenn.
                                  Line 5065 
                                
                                  & forrþi darr mann hătenn wel
                                
                                  All þatt tatt æfre iss sinne,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt sinness laþe lasst
                                
                                  Niss nan off Godess shafftess,
                                
                                  Acc iss þatt dæþess laþe sed
                                  Line 5070 
                                
                                  Þatt deofless æfre sawenn
                                
                                  Inn ure flæshess lusst, & ec
                                
                                  Inn ure sawless wille.
                                
                                  & all þatt æfre iss god inn me
                                
                                  Off kinde & ec off dede,
                                  Line 5075 
                                
                                  All birrþ þe lufenn itt inn me,
                                
                                  All swa summ i þe sellfenn;
                                
                                  Forr þe birrþ lufenn all þe god,
                                
                                  & hătenn all þe sinne,
                                
                                  Þwerrt u¯¯t inn iwhillc oþerr mann,
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                                  All swa summ i þe sellfenn;
                                
                                  & te birrþ ec, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  I gode dedess hellpenn
                                
                                  & firrþrenn iwhillc oþerr mann,
                                
                                  All all swa summ þe sellfenn.
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                                  Nu birrþ þe nimenn mikell gom
                                
                                  Off þiss þatt I þe shæwe,

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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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