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

                                
                                  Þeȝȝ ba forrlurenn Paradys
                                
                                   [col 173] Þurrh sinnfull gluterrnesse,
                                
                                  & tu þurrh mæþ i mete & drinnch
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                                  Mihht winnenn efft tatt illke;
                                
                                  Forr mikell mihhte itt hellpenn uss
                                
                                  To winnenn heoffness blisse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt we wolldenn tăkenn aȝȝ
                                
                                  Unnorne fode & litell,
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                                  & ȝiff we wolldenn shunenn aȝȝ
                                
                                  To fillenn uss wiþþ esstess;
                                
                                  Forr swa we mihhtenn follȝhenn Crist
                                
                                  & hise Leorninngcnihhtess,
                                
                                  Þatt tokenn aȝȝ wiþþ mikell mæþ
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                                  & aȝȝ unnorne fode.
                                
                                  All þuss we muȝhenn cumenn efft
                                
                                  Till Paradysess riche
                                
                                  Wiþþ oþerr weȝȝe, ȝiff þatt we
                                
                                  All affterr ure mihhte
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                                  Aȝȝ follȝhenn Godess bodeword
                                
                                  & aȝȝ forrbuȝhen sinne,
                                
                                  Onnȝæn þatt ta twa firrste menn
                                
                                  Ne wolldenn nowwþerr haldenn,
                                
                                  Ne follȝhenn Godess bodeword,
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                                  Ne ȝemenn hemm fra sinne.
                                
                                  Þa kingess alle forenn ham,
                                
                                  & come þeȝȝ na mare
                                
                                  Till þatt unnfæle Herode king;
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn

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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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