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

                                
                                  Hu Drihhtin barrh þa fowwre menn
                                
                                  & teȝȝre fowwre wifess
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn gode & clene menn,
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                                  & Drihhtin lefe & cweme,
                                
                                  & le¯¯t forrfarenn all mannkinn
                                
                                  Þatt all wass full off sinne
                                
                                  & all forrgarrt ȝæn Godd, & all
                                
                                  Wel wurrþ to wurrþenn cwennkenn;
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                                  & ȝiff þu takesst bisne att ta
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn Drihhtin cweme,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Noþess hallȝhe sloþ
                                
                                  Off all hiss rihhtwisnesse,
                                
                                  & to forrwerrpenn all þe sloþ,
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                                  & all þe laþe bisne
                                
                                  Off alle þa þatt waterr swallh
                                
                                  Forr þeȝȝre depe sinness,
                                
                                  Þa takesst tu, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þatt oþerr time
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                                  Stafflike drinnch god till þe lif
                                
                                  & till þe sawle baþe,
                                
                                  Þatt mikell maȝȝ þe gengenn her
                                
                                  To winnenn Cristess are,
                                
                                  Alls iff þu drunnke waterrdrinnch
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                                  U¯¯t off þatt oþerr fe¯¯tless
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe slekkenn wel þin þirrst,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt te þirrsteþþ·
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu þiss þurrh Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Deplikerr unnderrstanndesst
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                                  Þatt Noþess arrke iss Cristess hus
                                
                                  & Cristess hallȝhe kirrke,

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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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