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

                                
                                  & all swa summ þatt cwike bucc
                                
                                  Comm inntill wilde wesste,
                                
                                  All swa comm Cristess Goddcunndleȝȝc
                                
                                  All cwicc upp inntill heoffne,
                                
                                  Þatt wass biforenn Cristess dæþ
                                  Line 1390 
                                
                                  Swa summ itt wesste wære,
                                
                                   [col 38] Forrþi þatt baþe enngless & menn
                                
                                  Itt haffdenn ær forrworrpenn.
                                
                                  Forr enngless haffdenn heoffness ærd
                                
                                  Forrlorenn all wiþþ rihhte;
                                  Line 1395 
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ wolldenn effnenn hemm
                                
                                  Ȝæn Godd þurrh modiȝnesse;
                                
                                  Forr whatt teȝȝ fellenn sone dun
                                
                                  Off heoffne unntill helle
                                
                                  Till eche wa, forrþi þatt teȝȝ
                                  Line 1400 
                                
                                  Forrwurrpenn eche blisse.
                                
                                  & alle þa þatt fellenn swa
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ sinndenn laþe deofless,
                                
                                  & stanndenn inn þurrh hĕte & niþ
                                
                                  To scrennkenn menness sawless.
                                  Line 1405 
                                
                                  Acc þu mihht werenn þe fra þeȝȝm
                                
                                  Þurrh rihhte læfe o Criste,
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt weorrc þatt tær toliþ
                                
                                  Wiþþ Jesu Cristess hellpe.
                                
                                  & ure tweȝȝenn forrme menn,
                                  Line 1410 
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin shop off eorþe,
                                
                                  Forrlurenn ec forr heore gillt
                                
                                  Wiþþ rihht dom heoffness blisse,

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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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