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

                                
                                  I draf hemm u¯¯t, forr þatt I swa
                                
                                  Þiss temmple wollde clennsenn,
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                                  Þiss temmple þatt forrþi wass wrohht,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn
                                
                                  Min bodiȝ, þatt iss all þwerrt u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off alle sinness clene.
                                
                                  & rihht iss þatt I clennse þuss
                                  Line 16230 
                                
                                  Þiss hus off ȝure unnþæwess
                                
                                  All þurrh mi Goddcunndnessess mahht,
                                
                                  All swa summ I shall reȝȝsenn
                                
                                  Off dæþe þurrh þatt illke mahht
                                
                                  Þatt hus þatt itt bitacneþþ,
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                                  To clennsenn itt þurrh min ærist
                                
                                  Off all dæþshildiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þatt iss mi bodiȝ þatt shall ben
                                
                                  Unnbundenn uppo rode
                                
                                  Þær itt shall shædenn fra mi gast,
                                  Line 16240 
                                
                                  All wiþþ min aȝhenn wille.
                                
                                  & I me sellf shall reȝȝsenn itt
                                
                                  Þe þridde daȝȝ off dæþe,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt Þrimmnessess hallȝhe mahht
                                
                                  Þatt all þiss werelld wrohhte.
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                                  & ta Juþewess ȝæfenn himm
                                
                                  Anndswere onnȝæn, & seȝȝdenn;
                                
                                  Fowwerrtiȝ winnterr ȝedenn forþ
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ tær tekenn sexe,
                                
                                  œr þann þiss temmple mihhte ben
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                                  Fullwrohht & all fullforþedd,
                                
                                  & tu darrst ȝellpenn þatt tu mahht
                                
                                  Itt i þre daȝhess reȝȝsenn

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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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