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

                                
                                  & witt & mihht to drædenn Godd
                                
                                  & hise starrke domess,
                                
                                  Forr to forrbuȝhenn þess te bett
                                
                                  All þatt tatt Godd forrwerrpeþþ·
                                
                                  Nu maȝȝ mann unnderrstanndenn her,
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                                  Þurrh þise seofenn mahhtess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ whillke ȝifess Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Her frofreþþ Cristess þeowwess;
                                
                                  & tatt he wile hemm frofrenn her
                                
                                  O þise seofenn wise,
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                                  Þatt wass hemm wel bitacnedd ær,
                                
                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt Crist wass seofenn ȝer
                                
                                  Amang hæþene þeode,
                                
                                  Þatt siþþenn shollde i Crisstenndom
                                  Line 8815 
                                
                                  Þurrh Haliȝ Gast beon frofredd.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Shall ȝifenn hise þeowwess
                                
                                  A butenn ende inn heoffness ærd
                                
                                  To brukenn eche blisse,
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                                  Þatt dide he þeȝȝm full witerrliȝ
                                
                                  To witenn þurrh himm sellfenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt he wass seofenn ȝer
                                
                                  Amang hæþene þeode,
                                
                                  Amang þatt follc þatt shollde himm ȝe¯¯t
                                  Line 8825 
                                
                                  Full wel tocweme þewwtenn
                                
                                  I Crisstenndom, þurrh haliȝ lif
                                
                                  & þurrh þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Forr tale off seoffne tacneþþ uss
                                
                                  All þatt tatt æfre lassteþþ,

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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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