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

                                
                                  Swa summ þeȝȝ wærenn o þe treo
                                
                                  All cwike & grene boȝhess,
                                
                                  Acc whatt forrþi þeȝȝ sinndenn aȝȝ
                                
                                  All þwerrt u¯¯t butenn wasstme,
                                
                                  Forr þeȝȝ ne shulenn unnderrfon
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                                  Nan mede inn heoffness blisse,
                                
                                  Off þatt teȝȝ didenn her summ god
                                
                                  Biforenn menness ehne,
                                
                                  All forr þe lufe off eorþliȝ loff,
                                
                                  & nohht forr lufe off Criste.
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                                  & hemm beoþ ȝarrkedd hellewa,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þeȝȝ hemm nohht ne clennsenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ sinndenn dærneliȝ
                                
                                  All fulle off depe sinness.
                                
                                  & sume boȝhess off þatt treo
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                                  Þatt we nu mælenn ummbe
                                
                                  Uss berenn wasstme, acc itt iss all
                                
                                  Full beȝȝsc & full off atterr;
                                
                                  & swillke sinndenn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt spellenn wrang & leȝhenn,
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                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ brinngenn mikell follc
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe rihhte weȝȝe,
                                
                                  & all to trowwenn wrang o Godd
                                
                                  Þurrh þeȝȝre fallse lare.
                                
                                  & teȝȝre wasstme iss þeȝȝre spell
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                                  Acc itt iss full off atterr,
                                
                                  Forr itt iss full off falls & flærd
                                
                                  & full off hefiȝ dwilde,
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt teȝȝ don þe læwedd follc
                                
                                  O Drihhtin wrang to trowwenn,

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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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