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

                                
                                  Swa þatt ȝitt baþe ledenn ȝunnc
                                
                                  Clennlike ȝunnc bitwenenn,
                                
                                  Þa follȝhe ȝitt tatt narrwe stih
                                
                                  Þatt ledeþþ ȝunnc till heoffne,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt ȝitt endenn ȝunnkerr lif
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                                  All affterr Cristess wille,
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þe rihhte læfe o Godd
                                
                                  & all i gode dedess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ lufe towarrd alle menn
                                
                                  Wiþþ husell & wiþþ shriffte.
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                                  & ȝunnc birrþ nimenn mikell gom
                                
                                  To þæwenn ȝunnkerr chilldre,
                                
                                  & ȝunnc birrþ ȝeorne lærenn hemm
                                
                                  To lufenn Godd & drædenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt ȝitt nilenn wraþþenn Godd
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                                  Þurrh sinnfull ȝemelæste.
                                
                                  & ȝunnc birrþ ȝunnkerr leȝhemenn
                                
                                  Rihht laȝhelike ledenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt ȝitt nohht att hofelæs
                                
                                  Ne nede þeȝȝm to swinnkenn;
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                                  Forr ȝunnc birrþ witenn swiþe wel,
                                
                                  & innwarrdlike trowwenn,
                                
                                  Þatt niss bitwenen ȝunnc & hemm
                                
                                  Nan shæd i manness kinde,
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ muȝhenn gode beon
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                                  Biforenn Godess ehne;
                                
                                  & tatt ȝitt muȝhenn wraþþenn Godd
                                
                                  Ȝiff ȝitt hemm oferrbedenn.
                                
                                  & heore leȝhe birrþ hemm beon
                                
                                  Rædiȝ, þann itt iss addledd;

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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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