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

                                
                                  Þatt wass till uss god bisne inoh,
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff wet¯¯ wilenn follȝhenn,
                                
                                  To sekenn kirrke bliþeliȝ,
                                
                                  To biddenn uss to Criste,
                                  Line 8990 
                                
                                  Onn iwhillc haliȝ messedaȝȝ
                                
                                  Þatt uss birrþ alle freollsenn,
                                
                                  Forr þanne birrþ uss Godess hus
                                
                                  Att allre læste sekenn,
                                
                                  Forr, ȝiff we mihhtenn, illke daȝȝ
                                  Line 8995 
                                
                                  Uss birrde itt georne sekenn,
                                
                                  To þingenn uss wiþþ ure Godd
                                
                                  Þurrh bedess & þurrh lakess.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Wass fundenn i þe temmple,
                                  Line 9000 
                                
                                  Bitwenenn þatt Judisskenn flocc
                                
                                  Þatt læredd wass o boke,
                                
                                  Þær þær he satt to fraȝȝnenn hemm
                                
                                  Off heore bokess lare,
                                
                                  Þatt wass ȝuw bisne god inoh,
                                  Line 9005 
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff ȝet¯¯ wilenn follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝuw birrþ georne stanndenn inn
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn ȝure preostess,
                                
                                  Off all hu ȝuw birrþ ledenn ȝuw
                                
                                  & lefenn uppo Criste,
                                  Line 9010 
                                
                                  Hu ȝuw birrþ follȝhenn Cristess sloþ,
                                
                                  & Cristess laȝhess haldenn,
                                
                                  & stanndenn ȝæn þe laþe gast,
                                
                                  & winnenn Cristess are.
                                
                                  Forr ȝuw birrþ uppo kirrkeflor
                                  Line 9015 
                                
                                  Beon fundenn offte & lannge,

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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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