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

                                
                                  Till haliȝ bokess gastliȝ witt
                                
                                  U¯¯t off stafflike lare.
                                
                                  Forr gastliȝ witt off haliȝ boc
                                
                                  Iss fode to þe sawle,
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                                  & itt iss halsumm to þe lif
                                
                                  Till himm þatt wel itt follȝheþþ·
                                
                                  Þa Farisewess sæȝhenn wel
                                
                                  & wel þeȝȝ unnderrstodenn,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝre laȝhe & teȝȝre lif,
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                                  Þatt lif þatt teȝȝ þa leddenn,
                                
                                  All full nehh munnde cwennkedd ben
                                
                                  Þurrh Crist & þurrh hiss lare,
                                
                                  & ec þurrh hiss fulluhht þatt wex
                                
                                  Full swiþe, summ þeȝȝ herrdenn,
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                                  Þurrh þatt te follc sohhte þærto
                                
                                  Att hise Lerninngcnihhtess.
                                
                                  & ec þurrh þatt te follc toc wel
                                
                                  Wiþþ Crist aȝȝ mare & mare,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh þeȝȝ unnderrstodenn wel,
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                                  Þatt teȝȝre lare munnde
                                
                                  & teȝȝre laȝhe all endedd ben
                                
                                  Þurrh Cristess newe lare,
                                
                                  Þatt munnde ȝifenn gastliȝ witt
                                
                                  Onn haliȝ bokess lare,
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                                  & tæchenn follc to þewwtenn Godd
                                
                                  All onn an oþerr wise.
                                
                                  Þiss unnderrstodenn þeȝȝ off Crist
                                
                                  & dide hemm mikell ange,
                                
                                  & forrþi tokenn þeȝȝ till Crist
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                                  Full hefiȝ niþ & wraþþe,

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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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