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

                                
                                  Þa sellf birrþ lufenn oþre menn,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Cristess bisne.
                                
                                  Crist ȝaff hiss aȝhenn lefe lif
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                                  To þolenn dæþ o rode
                                
                                  Forr hise posstless, & forr þe,
                                
                                  & forr all follke nede,
                                
                                  Forr swa to lesenn all mannkinn
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe deofless walde.
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                                  & te birrþ follȝhenn Cristess sloþ,
                                
                                  & te birrþ wi˘lenn swelltenn
                                
                                  Forr Cristess þeowwess, ȝiff mann hemm
                                
                                  All saccless wi˘le cwellenn,
                                
                                  Forr swa to cwennkenn Crisstenndom,
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                                  & Cristess laȝhess dillȝhenn.
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt mann wi˘le Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & Cristess name dillȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þa birrþ þe stanndenn þær onnȝæn,
                                
                                  & werenn Cristess þeowwess,
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                                  & Cristess name, & Crisstenndom,
                                
                                  Whil þatt tin lif þe lassteþþ,
                                
                                  & forr þe soþe lufe off Crist
                                
                                  & ec off Cristess þeowwess
                                
                                   [col 128] Þe birrþ, ȝiff þatt te falleþþ swa,
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                                  Full bliþelike swelltenn;
                                
                                  & ta þu follȝhesst opennliȝ
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd Cristess bisne,
                                
                                  Þatt forr mannkinne lufe swallt
                                
                                  Full bliþelike o rode;

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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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