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

                                
                                  Affterr þatt þing þatt lassteþþ á,
                                
                                  & all iss full off blisse.
                                
                                  Þiss ȝife ȝifeþþ Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Þa menn þatt wel himm cwemenn;
                                
                                  Forr aȝȝ hemm langeþþ heþennwarrd,
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                                  & upp till heoffness blisse;
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ unnderrstanndenn wel
                                
                                  Hu wicke itt iss onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Wiþþ þatt itt iss inn heoffness ærd
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess sihhþe.
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                                  An oþerr ȝife Godess Gast
                                
                                  Her ȝifeþþ hise þeowwess
                                
                                  Þatt iss, þatt he þeȝȝm ȝifeþþ her
                                
                                  All full wel tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Off all þe boc i Godess hus
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                                  Þe deope diȝhellnesse,
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ muȝhenn shæwenn ȝuw
                                
                                  All whatt itt seȝȝþ & meneþþ,
                                
                                  & all hu mann birrþ follȝhenn itt
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin rihht to þeowwtenn,
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                                  Swa þatt ȝe muȝhenn alle imæn
                                
                                  Þatt rihhte weȝȝe follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þatt ledeþþ þa till heoffness ærd
                                
                                  Þatt Godess laȝhess haldenn.
                                
                                  Þe þridde ȝife Godess Gast
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                                  Her ȝifeþþ hise þeowwess,
                                
                                  He gifeþþ hemm himm sellfenn her
                                
                                  Swa forrþerrlike onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ cunnenn ráþenn rihht
                                
                                  Hemm sellfenn & ec oþre,

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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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