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

                                
                                  All swa birrþ læredd mann þurrh spell
                                
                                  Þe mekenn all þin herrte,
                                
                                  & turrnenn itt & tawwenn itt,
                                
                                  & nesshenn itt & godenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt bere þess te bett
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                                  God wasstme i gode dedess.
                                
                                  Þa shep þatt Jesu Crist draf u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off Godess hallȝhe temmple
                                
                                  Tacnedenn uss þatt follc þatt her
                                
                                  Unnshaþinesse follȝheþþ,
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                                  & ledeþþ her full haliȝ lif
                                
                                  Affterr þatt tatt menn wenenn;
                                
                                  Acc itt niss nohht biforenn Godd
                                
                                  Licwurrþiȝ lif, ne cweme.
                                
                                  Forr all þatt tatt teȝȝ haliliȝ
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                                  & dafftiȝlike hemm ledenn,
                                
                                  All don þeȝȝ þatt forr erþliȝ loff
                                
                                  & forr erþlike mede,
                                
                                  & rihht nohht forr þe lufe off Godd,
                                
                                  Noff hefennlike mede.
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                                  & swillke drifeþþ Jesu Crist
                                
                                  U¯¯t off hiss hallȝhe temmple,
                                
                                  Þatt iss, — u¯¯t off þatt hallȝhe flocc
                                
                                  Þatt hise laȝhess haldeþþ,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt teȝȝ ne don na god
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                                  Forr hefennlike mede,
                                
                                  Acc all forr lufe off idell ȝellp
                                
                                  & all forr menness spæche;
                                
                                  Hemm drifeþþ Crist u¯¯t off hiss hird
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt teȝȝre sinness

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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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