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

                                
                                  Forr he le¯¯t hise kinness menn
                                
                                  Hiss shapp himm ummbeclippenn,
                                
                                  Rihht o þatt daȝȝ þatt he wass her
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                                  Off ehhte daȝhess elde,
                                
                                  Alls iff he wære an sinnfull mann
                                
                                  Þatt wære himm ned to clennsenn.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu takesst mikell gom
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Cristess bisne,
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                                  To follȝhenn & to fillenn her
                                
                                  Gladdliȝ wiþþ all þin mahhte
                                
                                  All þatt tatt Drihhtin hafeþþ sett
                                
                                  Cristene mann to follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þa takesst tu, þatt witt tu wel,
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                                  U¯¯t off þe sexte time
                                
                                  Stafflike drinnch god to þin lif
                                
                                  & to þin sawle baþe,
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe mikell gengenn her
                                
                                  To winnenn Cristess are,
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                                  Alls iff þu drunnke waterrdrinnch
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe sexte fe¯¯tless,
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe slekkenn wel þin þirrst,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt te þirrsteþþ·
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu þiss þurrh Haliȝ Gast
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                                  Deplikerr unnderrstanndesst,
                                
                                  Þatt Cristess hird o Domess daȝȝ
                                
                                   [col 346] Shall ummbeshorenn wurrþenn
                                
                                  Þurrh Cristess are & þurrh ærist
                                
                                  Swa þwerrt [u¯¯t] wel wiþþ alle,

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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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