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

                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ ne sholldenn nohht onȝæn
                                
                                  Efft wendenn till Herode,
                                
                                  Acc farenn ham till here land
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                                  All wiþþ summ oþerr weȝȝe.
                                
                                  All þiss hem seȝȝde Godess Gast
                                
                                  O bedde þer þeȝȝ slepptenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde þurrh þatt slep
                                
                                  Well mikell þing bitacnenn.
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                                  Itt tacneþþ uss þatt alle þa
                                
                                  Sinndenn Drihhtin full cweme,
                                
                                  Þatt slæpenn fra þe weorrldess lusst
                                
                                  & wakenn aȝȝ wiþþ Criste.
                                
                                  & tatt ta kingess forenn ham
                                  Line 7485 
                                
                                  All wiþþ an oþerr weȝȝe,
                                
                                  Þatt uss bitacneþþ mikell þing,
                                
                                  Þatt uss iss ned to follȝhenn.
                                
                                  Uss alle birrþ till ure land
                                
                                  Wiþþ oþerr weȝȝe wendenn;
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                                  Ure allre land iss Paradis,
                                
                                  Forr þeþenn u¯¯t we comenn.
                                
                                  Adam & Éve wærenn don
                                
                                  I Paradisess riche,
                                
                                  To libbenn a wiþþutenn dæþ,
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                                  & aȝȝ occ aȝȝ i blisse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt þeȝȝ wolldenn Godess word
                                
                                  & Godess wille follȝhenn.
                                
                                  Acc þeȝȝ forrlurenn Paradys
                                
                                  Þurrh þeȝȝre baþre gillte,
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                                  Þurrh þatt teȝȝ Godess bodeword
                                
                                  Forrletenn & forrȝemmdenn.

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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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