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

                                
                                  Þa frellsenn þeȝȝ, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Gastlike Passkemesse,
                                
                                  Forr Passke, — ȝiff þu turrnenn willt
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                                  Þatt word till Ennglissh spæche,
                                
                                  Þa tacneþþ itt tatt uss birrþ aȝȝ
                                
                                  Uss flittenn towarrd Criste.
                                
                                  & hiderr cumeþþ Crist himm sellf
                                
                                  Inntill Crisstene lede,
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                                  Þurrh þatt he nimeþþ mikell gom
                                
                                  Whatt gate illc an himm ledeþþ,
                                
                                  All alls he comm till Ȝerrsalæm
                                
                                  Þe Passkedaȝȝ to frellsenn.
                                
                                  & here he drifeþþ alle þa
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                                  U¯¯t off hiss hallȝhe lede
                                
                                  Þatt ledenn hemm ȝæn Goddspellboc,
                                
                                  Ȝæn Cristess laȝhe i sinne,
                                
                                  All alls he draf inn Ȝerrsalæm
                                
                                  U¯¯t off hiss Faderr temmple
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                                  Þatt follc þatt he þærinne sahh
                                
                                  Unnlaȝhelike himm ledenn;
                                
                                  Crist drifeþþ hemm u¯¯t off hiss hird,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt teȝȝre sinness
                                
                                  Hemm shædenn all fra Cristess hird
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                                  & draȝhenn hemm till helle,
                                
                                  Butt iff þeȝȝ muȝhenn turrnenn hemm
                                
                                  To betenn þeȝȝre gilltess.
                                
                                  Þa nowwt tatt Jesu Crist draf u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off Godess hallȝhe temmple
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                                  Tacnedenn uss þatt læredd follc
                                
                                  Þatt læreþþ wel & spelleþþ,

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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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