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

                                
                                  & eȝȝwhær þær mann rædeþþ þe
                                
                                  Off haliȝ wi˘teȝhunnge,
                                
                                  Þær heresst tu þatt Gastess rerd
                                
                                  Þatt spacc þurrh manness tunge,
                                
                                  Acc þu ne mahht nohht wi˘tenn þohh
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                                   [col 380] Ne sen wiþþ flæshlic eȝhe
                                
                                  Fra wheþennwarrd, ne whanne he comm
                                
                                  Inntill þe wi˘tess herrte,
                                
                                  Ne whanne he fareþþ u¯¯t off himm
                                
                                  Ne whiderrwarrd he wendeþþ·
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                                  Forr gast iss all unnseȝhennlic
                                
                                  Biforenn flæshlic eȝhe,
                                
                                  & o þatt wise iss illc an mann
                                
                                  Þatt her iss borenn twiȝess,
                                
                                  Þatt borenn iss off Haliȝ Gast,
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                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh læfe.
                                
                                  Allswa ne mahht tu rihht nohht sen
                                
                                  Þurrh flæshess eȝhe sihhþe,
                                
                                  O whillke wise he wharrfedd iss
                                
                                  Wiþþinnenn inn hiss herrte
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                                  Fra flæsh till gast, þurrh þatt tatt he
                                
                                  Forrsakeþþ & forrwerrpeþþ
                                
                                  To ledenn himm fra þeþennforþ
                                
                                  Affterr þe flæshess wille,
                                
                                  & takeþþ till wiþþ bliþe mod
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                                  Gastlike lif to ledenn,
                                
                                  & ec þurrh þatt he takeþþ wel
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þe rihhte læfe,

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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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