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

                                
                                  To clennsenn þeȝȝre bodiȝ swa
                                
                                  Off all þe bodiȝ sinne.
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                                  Acc þatt wass all, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Unnnitt & idell dede,
                                
                                  Forr þohh þeȝȝ wesshenn þeȝȝre lic
                                
                                  Wiþþ waterr all wiþþutenn,
                                
                                  Ne mihhtenn þeȝȝ nohht clennsenn swa
                                  Line 15130 
                                
                                  Þe flæsh off hire sinne.
                                
                                  Forr whase wile clennsenn ohht
                                
                                  Hiss flæsh off aniȝ sinne,
                                
                                  Himm birrþ himm clennsenn [witt tu wel]
                                
                                  Wiþþ shriffte & wiþþ dædbote,
                                  Line 15135 
                                
                                  & innwarrdliȝ biwepenn itt
                                
                                  Off þatt itt ohht wass filedd,
                                
                                  & blinnenn itt fra þeþennforþ
                                
                                  To filenn hise þannkess.
                                
                                  & witt tu wel þatt nollde nohht
                                  Line 15140 
                                
                                  Þe Goddspellwrihhte mælenn,
                                
                                  Off þatt te Judewisshe follc
                                
                                  Hemm wesshenn swa wiþþutenn
                                
                                  Off swillke fe¯¯tless, ȝiff þatt he
                                
                                  Ne wisste whatt itt shollde
                                  Line 15145 
                                
                                  Bitacnenn eȝȝþerr hemm & uss
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn.
                                
                                  Itt tacneþþ till Judisskenn follc,
                                
                                  Þatt all þatt witeȝhunnge
                                
                                  Þatt hallȝhe witess wri˘tenn hemm
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                                  Inn alle þeȝȝre timess
                                
                                  Wass hemm bitahht þurrh Godd, forr hemm
                                
                                  To clennsenn & to bæwenn

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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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