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

                                
                                  He tahhte hemm hu þeȝȝ mihhtenn fleon
                                
                                  Drihhtiness irre & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Gaþ till & takeþþ uppo ȝuw
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                                  Rihht shriffte off ȝure sinness,
                                
                                  & clennseþþ ȝuw onnȝæn þe dom
                                
                                  To fleon Drihhtiness irre.
                                
                                  Forr whase itt iss þatt maȝȝ & cann
                                
                                  & wile himm ȝeorne clennsenn,
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                                  & clennseþþ himm wiþþ all hiss mahht,
                                
                                  He fleoþ Drihhtiness irre.
                                
                                  & forr þatt tatt Judisskenn follc
                                
                                  Wass modiȝ follc wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  & allre mast off þatt itt wass
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                                  Off Abrahamess chilldre
                                
                                  & all off Abrahamess streon,
                                
                                  Ne wolldenn þeȝȝ nohht cnawenn
                                
                                  Ne ȝatenn þatt teȝȝ wærenn ohht
                                
                                  Sinnfulle onn aniȝ wise,
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                                  & swa þeȝȝ létenn wel off þatt
                                
                                  Þatt Abraham hemm streonde,
                                
                                  Alls iff þatt mihhte berrȝhenn hemm
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn gode dedess.
                                
                                   [col 248] & tatt wass mikell wherrfeddleȝȝc
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                                  Þatt dide hemm swa to wenenn;
                                
                                  Forr mihhtenn þeȝȝ nohht borrȝhenn beon
                                
                                  Ne winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt teȝȝ Abrahamess kinn
                                
                                  Off hise chilldre wærenn,

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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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