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

                                
                                  Þurrh þatt te Kalldewisshe follc
                                
                                  Oppnedenn þeȝȝre maddmess,
                                
                                  Nohht i þe stræte, acc i þatt hus
                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass borenn inne,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh wass þe bitacnedd wel
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                                  Hu þe birrþ Drihhtinn lakenn.
                                
                                  Ne birrþ þe nohht forr erþliȝ loff,
                                
                                  Ne nohht forr menness spæche,
                                
                                  U¯¯t i þe stræte oppnenn þin hord,
                                
                                  To don þin allmess dede
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                                  Biforenn follc, þurrh idell gellp,
                                
                                  Ne þurrh nan modiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Forr swa to winnenn erþliȝ loff
                                
                                  Wiþþ allmess þatt tu wirrkesst;
                                
                                  Acc þe birrþ dærnelike don,
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                                  Wiþþ innwarrd herrte & clene,
                                
                                  Þin allmess dede onn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt hafenn ned off hellpe,
                                
                                  & te birrþ i þin herrtess hus
                                
                                  Aȝȝ innwarrdlike ȝernenn,
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                                  Þatt Godd Allmahhtiȝ cweme be
                                
                                  Whattse þu dost to gode,
                                
                                  & tatt he ȝelde þe þi læn
                                
                                  Inn heffne þurrh hiss are.
                                
                                  Þatt hord tatt haldenn wass & hidd,
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                                  & dærne & all unnawwnedd,
                                
                                  A whil þatt ta Kalldisskenn menn
                                
                                  Amang unnwiness wærenn,
                                
                                  Þatt hord wass to bitacnenn uss,
                                
                                  Þatt uss ne birrþ nohht awwnenn

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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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