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

                                
                                  All all swa summ þe lawe iss heh
                                
                                  Abufenn oþerr eorþe.
                                
                                  & forrþi wærenn þeȝȝ full rihht
                                
                                  Bitacnedd þurrh þe lawe,
                                
                                  Þatt shollde ske¯¯t beon worrpenn dun
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                                  & laȝhedd all & niþþredd.
                                
                                  Forr all þe Judewisshe follc
                                
                                  Well ner wass all forrworrpenn
                                
                                  Affter þatt tatt te Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Wass cumenn her to manne,
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                                  Forrþi þatt teȝȝ forrwurrpenn himm
                                
                                  & Sannte Marȝe hiss moderr.
                                
                                  & tatt te dăle shollde beon
                                
                                  All heȝhedd upp & filledd,
                                
                                  Þatt wass seȝȝd off hæþene þeod
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                                  Þatt shollde þa beon heȝhedd,
                                
                                  & turrnedd till þe Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & till þe rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  & filledd þurrh þe Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gastess frofre.
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                                  & þatt tatt Cristess þeww Johan
                                
                                  Þær seȝȝde till þe leode,
                                
                                  & all þatt ohht iss wrang & crumb
                                
                                  Shall effnedd beon & rihhtedd,
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝde he witerrliȝ forrþi
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                                  Þatt ta wass cumenn time,
                                
                                  Þatt woh & sinne shollde beon
                                
                                  Till rihhtwisnesse wharrfedd,
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh Crisstenndom,
                                
                                  & þurrh 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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