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

                                  
                                    Forr uss to lesenn þurrh hiss dæþ
                                  
                                    U¯¯t off þe deofless walde.
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                                    Þatt sallfe þatt teȝȝ ȝæfenn himm,
                                  
                                    Þatt iss Myrra ȝehatenn,
                                  
                                    Itt iss full bitterr & full beȝȝsc,
                                  
                                    Þatt witt tu wel to soþe,
                                  
                                    Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn uss
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                                    Þatt dæþess bitterrnesse
                                  
                                    Þatt Godess Sune, Allmahhtiȝ Godd,
                                  
                                    Wass wurrþenn mann to dreȝhenn.

                                  
                                    Nu birrþ uss alle follȝhenn well
                                  
                                    Þa Kalldewisshe kingess
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                                    Wiþþ haliȝ lifess gastliȝ lac,
                                  
                                    & ec wiþþ ure trowwþe;
                                  
                                    Forr uss birrþ lefenn wel þatt Crist
                                  
                                    Iss King off alle kingess,
                                  
                                    & swa we muȝhenn offrenn himm
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                                    Gastlike gold to lake;
                                  
                                    & uss birrþ lefenn þatt he iss
                                  
                                    Soþ Godd i mennisscnesse,
                                  
                                    & swa we muȝhenn offrenn himm
                                  
                                    Gastlike lac off recless;
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                                     [col 167] & uss birrþ lefenn þatt he wass
                                  
                                    Soþ mann i lif & sawle,
                                  
                                    Forr þatt he wollde þolenn dæþ
                                  
                                    Forr all mannkinne nede,

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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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