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

                                
                                  All þiss to shæwenn niss nohht lihht
                                
                                  Shorrtliȝ wiþþ fæwe wordess.
                                
                                  Acc cumeþþ baþe forþ wiþþ me
                                
                                  & lokeþþ whære I bigge;
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                                  Þatt iss to seggenn opennliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt mann itt unnderrstannde,
                                
                                  Nu birrþ ȝunnc cumenn forþ wiþþ me,
                                
                                  Þatt iss, forþ wiþþ min hellpe,
                                
                                  Till fulluhht & till Crisstenndom
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                                  & till þe rihhte læfe;
                                
                                  & ta ȝitt shulenn siþþenn sen
                                
                                  Hu ȝitt me muȝhenn cwemenn
                                
                                  Swa þwerrt u¯¯t wel, þatt icc me shall
                                
                                  Inn ȝunnkerr herrte resstenn;
                                  Line 13045 
                                
                                  & ta ȝitt muȝhenn siþþenn sen
                                
                                  Þurrh Haliȝ Gastess lare,
                                
                                  Whær mann maȝȝ findenn alle þa
                                
                                   [col 314] Þatt þewwtenn me tocweme,
                                
                                  Swa þatt me þinnkeþþ god inn hemm
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                                  To biggenn & to resstenn;
                                
                                  & ta ȝitt muȝhenn siþþenn sen
                                
                                  Summwhatt & unnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Affterr þatt eorþliȝ manness witt
                                
                                  Maȝȝ Godess kinde cnawenn,
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                                  O whillke wise icc amm all an
                                
                                  I kinde & ec i mahhte,
                                
                                  Allmahhtiȝ Godd wiþþ Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  & wiþþ min Faderr baþe.

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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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