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

                                
                                  Þurrh hanndgang upponn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt fulluhht unnderrfengenn
                                
                                  Att hemm unnderr þe Laferrd Crist,
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þe rihhte læfe.
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                                  & alle þatt tiss hallȝhe mahht
                                
                                  Her biggenn oþerr sellenn,
                                
                                  Hemm alle drifeþþ Jesu Crist
                                
                                  U¯¯t off hiss hallȝhe temmple,
                                
                                  Þatt iss, — u¯¯t off þatt hallȝhe flocc
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                                  Þatt hise laȝhess haldeþþ;
                                
                                  & Crist hemm drifeþþ off hiss hird,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt teȝȝre sinness
                                
                                  Hemm shædenn all fra Cristess follc,
                                
                                  & draȝhenn hemm till helle,
                                  Line 16005 
                                
                                  Bu¯¯tt iff þeȝȝ muȝhenn turrnenn hemm
                                
                                  To betenn þeȝȝre gilltess.
                                
                                  Þa menn þatt wiþþ þe prestess fe
                                
                                  Þær sætenn, forr to lenenn
                                
                                  Þa menn þatt sholldenn offrenn itt,
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                                  Draf Crist u¯¯t off þe temmple,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ alle wærenn þær,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ sholldenn tacnenn
                                
                                  An follc þatt iss i Crisstenndom,
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin all forrwerrpeþþ,
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                                  Þatt iss, þatt follc þatt opennliȝ
                                
                                  Her follȝheþþ grediȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þatt all iss turrnedd to þatt an,
                                
                                  To winnenn affterr ahhte
                                
                                  Onn alle wise þatt he maȝȝ,
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                                  & bliþeliȝ wiþþ sinne,

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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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