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

                                
                                  Forr þu þeȝȝm birrlesst lifess drinnch
                                
                                  Þurrh lare & ec þurrh bisne.
                                
                                  Þin forrme win iss swiþe god,
                                
                                  Þin lattre win iss bettre;
                                
                                  Forr all itt wharrfeþþ þe þin hird
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                                  Þurrh gastliȝ drunnkennesse
                                
                                  Fra werelldshipess lufe & lusst
                                
                                  & fra þe flæshess wille,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn aȝȝ anwherrfeddleȝȝc
                                
                                  To winnenn heffness blisse.
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                                  Her iss þe defell & hiss þeww,
                                
                                  Forr eȝȝþerr follȝheþþ oþerr,
                                
                                  To birrlenn firrst te swete win
                                
                                  & siþþenn bitterr galle,
                                
                                  Her iss here eȝȝþerr nemmnedd mann
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                                  & nohht forr nane gode,
                                
                                  Acc forr þeȝȝ baþe tæchenn menn
                                
                                  To follȝhenn flæshess lusstess;
                                
                                  Forr mann iss flæsh þær þær he doþ
                                
                                  Þe flæshess fule wille,
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                                  & mann iss gast þær þær he doþ
                                
                                  Þe sawless clene wille.
                                
                                  & off þiss illke seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Daviþþ þe Sallmewrihhte
                                
                                  Till defless þewwess, þatt he sahh
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                                  Þe flæshess wille follȝhenn;
                                
                                  Ȝe shulenn deȝenn all se menn;
                                
                                  Forr þiss iss tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Alls iff he seȝȝde þuss till hemm
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche;

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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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