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

                                
                                  Himm birrþ all weorelldshipe flen,
                                
                                  & all þwerrt u¯¯t forrwerrpenn;
                                
                                  & himm birrþ all hiss flæshess lusst
                                
                                  Forr lufe off Crist forrwerrpenn;
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                                  & tatt iss swiþe strang & harrd
                                
                                  To forþenn her onn eorþe,
                                
                                  & forrþi witt tu wel þatt itt
                                
                                  Iss hehhre lif & bettre
                                
                                  To libbenn rihht i muneclif,
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                                  Swa summ þær iss to libbenn,
                                
                                  Þann iss to ledenn ȝure lif
                                
                                  Wiþþ weddlac & wiþþ ahhte;
                                
                                  Forr himm birrþ beon full clene mann,
                                
                                  & all wiþþutenn ahhte,
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                                  Buttan þatt mann himm findenn shall
                                
                                  Unnorne mete & wæde.
                                
                                  & tær iss all þatt eorþliȝ þing
                                
                                  Þatt minnstremann birrþ aȝhenn
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn cnif & shæþe, & camb,
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                                  & nedle, ȝiff he¯¯t ȝeorneþþ·
                                
                                  & all þiss shall mann findenn himm
                                
                                  & wel himm birrþ itt ȝemenn;
                                
                                  Forr birrþ himm nowwþerr don þæroff,
                                
                                  Ne ȝifenn itt, ne sellenn.
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                                  & himm birrþ æfre stanndenn inn
                                
                                  To lofenn Godd & wurrþenn,
                                
                                  & aȝȝ himm birrþ beon fressh þærto
                                
                                  Bi daȝȝess & bi nihhtess;
                                
                                  & tat iss harrd & strang & tor
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                                  & hefiȝ lif to ledenn,

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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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