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

                                
                                  Þa niss he nohht haldenn forr mann
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess ehne;
                                
                                  Forr niss na tale inn heoffness ærd
                                
                                  Bitwenenn Godess hallȝhenn
                                
                                  Off ifell mann, þatt ifell iss
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                                  All wiþþ hiss fulle wille,
                                
                                  Butt all swillc tale alls iss off hund,
                                
                                  Forr eȝȝþerr iss unnclene.
                                
                                  & god mann riseþþ aȝȝ uppwarrd
                                
                                  Inn alle gode dedess,
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                                  & godeþþ aȝȝ, & heȝheþþ aȝȝ
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess ehne,
                                
                                  & ȝiff he gillteþþ aniȝ gillt
                                
                                  Itt iss all ȝæn hiss wille,
                                
                                  & nile he nohht tærinne lin,
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                                  Acc riseþþ upp þurrh shriffte,
                                
                                  & beteþþ sone anan þatt gillt
                                
                                  Þatt he wass fallenn inne.
                                
                                  He riseþþ upp & sahhtleþþ himm
                                
                                  Wiþþ Godd þurrh rihht dædbote,
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                                  & iss swa tacnedd þurrh þatt deor
                                
                                  Þatt wass i leoness like,
                                
                                  Þatt riseþþ o þe þridde daȝȝ
                                
                                  Affterr þatt itt iss wheollpedd.
                                
                                  & god mann stanndeþþ aȝȝ onnȝæn
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                                  Hiss flæshess fule wille,
                                
                                  & cwennkeþþ aȝȝ wiþþ all hiss mahht
                                
                                  Hiss flæshess fule lusstess,
                                
                                  & offreþþ swa biforenn Godd
                                
                                  An lac well swiþe dere,

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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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