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

                                
                                  Hemm turrnenn efft full wel onnȝæn
                                
                                  Fra þeȝȝre depe sinness,
                                
                                  & turrnenn fra þe laþe gast
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                                  & turrnenn hemm till Criste,
                                
                                   [col 165] Þurrh þatt teȝȝ takenn bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Rihht shriffte off þeȝȝre sinness,
                                
                                  & ledenn siþþenn haliȝ lif,
                                
                                  & follȝhenn Cristess lare,
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                                  & follȝhenn heoffness lihht & leom
                                
                                  Inn alle gode dedess,
                                
                                  & winnenn Cristess hellpe & hald
                                
                                  & Cristess millce & are,
                                
                                  All all swa summ þa kingess efft
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                                  I þeȝȝre rihhte weȝȝe
                                
                                  Fundenn forrþrihht tatt steorrneleom,
                                
                                  Þatt ledde hemm rihht to Criste.
                                
                                  & all þatt, tatt Herode king
                                
                                  Badd ta þreo kingess sekenn
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                                  Þatt ȝunge king, & lakenn himm,
                                
                                  & buȝhenn himm o cnewwe,
                                
                                  & cumenn efft onnȝæn till himm
                                
                                  & witenn himm to seggenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt teȝȝ haffdenn fundenn himm,
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                                  Whære i þe land he wære,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde himm cumenn to
                                
                                  To lakenn himm & lutenn,
                                
                                  All þatt badd he þurrh swikedom
                                
                                  & all þurrh ille wiless;

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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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