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

                                
                                  Þatt shollde hemm gifenn hiss fulluhht,
                                
                                  To clennsenn hemm off sinness;
                                
                                  & badd he ȝeorne clennsenn hemm
                                
                                  Wiþþ shriffte off rihht dædbote,
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                                  To greȝȝþenn & to ȝarrkenn hemm
                                
                                  Ȝæn Cristess hallȝhe come.
                                
                                  & tohh þatt he ne mihhte nohht
                                
                                  Hemm ȝifenn þurrh himm sellfenn
                                
                                  Fulluhht tatt mihhte clennsenn hemm,
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                                  & lesenn hemm off sinness,
                                
                                   [col 234] Þohh kidde he þeȝȝm full wel þatt Crist
                                
                                  Hemm shollde newenn clennsenn
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Off alle þeȝȝre sinness.
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                                  & forr þatt Sannt Johan wass sennd
                                
                                  Biforenn Crist to greȝȝþenn,
                                
                                  All allse bidell birrþ beon sennd
                                
                                  To greȝȝþenn ȝæn hiss laferrd,
                                
                                  Forrþi toc he biforenn Crist
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                                  To spellenn & to fullhtnenn.
                                
                                  & siþþenn comm þe Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Himm sellf to wurrþenn fullhtnedd,
                                
                                  & to biginnenn þatt fulluhht
                                
                                  Þurrh hise Leorninngcnihhtess,
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                                  Þatt shollde clennsenn all þe mann
                                
                                  I bodiȝ & i sawle
                                
                                  Off alle sinness, ȝiff þatt he
                                
                                  Rihht laȝhelike itt toke;

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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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