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

                                
                                  Þe follc þatt herrde himm spellenn þær
                                
                                  Spacc þa till himm, & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Whatt shule we nu forrþwarrd don?
                                
                                  & he ȝaff sware, & seȝȝde;
                                  Line 9290 
                                
                                  Whasumm itt iss þatt illke mann
                                
                                  Þatt hafeþþ tweȝȝenn kirrtless,
                                
                                  Gife he þatt an summ oþerr mann
                                
                                  Þatt iss wiþþutenn kirrtell.
                                
                                  & puplicaness comenn þær,
                                  Line 9295 
                                
                                  Att himm to wurrþenn fullhtnedd,
                                
                                  & seȝȝdenn þuss till Sannt Johan,
                                
                                  Þær þær he stod to spellenn;
                                
                                  Lef maȝȝstre, seȝȝ uss nu þin raþ
                                
                                  & seȝȝ uss nu þin lare,
                                  Line 9300 
                                
                                  Whatt we nu forrþwarrd shulenn don
                                
                                  To betenn ure sinness.
                                
                                  & Sannt Johan hemm seȝȝde þuss;
                                
                                  Nohht elless ne nohht mare
                                
                                  Þann þatt tatt ȝuw iss sett to don
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                                  Ne do ȝe; þiss icc lære.
                                
                                  & ec þær comenn to þe flumm
                                
                                  Þe Kaserrkingess cnihhtess,
                                
                                  To leornenn lare att Sannt Johan
                                
                                  Off þeȝȝre sawle nede,
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                                  & tuss þeȝȝ seȝȝdenn þær till himm;
                                
                                  Seȝȝ uss all swa, lef laferrd,
                                
                                  Whatt uss iss nu forrþwarrd to don,
                                
                                  To berrȝhenn ure sawless.
                                
                                  & Sannt Johan hemm seȝȝde þuss;
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                                  Ȝiff þatt ȝe wel ȝuw lokenn

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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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