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

                                
                                  Þatt Cristess hallȝhe bede maȝȝ
                                
                                  Towarrd hiss faderr forþenn
                                
                                  Unnseȝȝenndlike mare inoh
                                  Line 1760 
                                
                                  Þann aniȝ wihht maȝȝ þennkenn.
                                
                                  Ne forrþenn Godess enngleþeod
                                
                                  Ne maȝȝ nohht unnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Hu mikell Cristess bede maȝȝ
                                
                                  Towarrd hiss faderr spedenn,
                                  Line 1765 
                                
                                  Þatt he forrȝife Cristess hird
                                
                                  All þeȝȝre sake & sinne,
                                
                                  & hellpe þeȝȝm þurrh hiss godleȝȝc
                                
                                  To winnenn eche blisse.
                                
                                  Þatt blod tatt þurrh þe bisscopp wass
                                  Line 1770 
                                
                                  Þær o þa þingess strennkedd,
                                
                                  Þatt blod tacnede Cristess blod
                                
                                  Þatt ȝotenn wass o rode.
                                
                                  Þatt oferrwerrc þatt timmbredd wass
                                
                                  Abufenn Godess arrke,
                                  Line 1775 
                                
                                  Þatt oferrwerrc tacnede wel
                                
                                  Þe Faderr upp off heffne,
                                
                                  Forr þatt te Faderr eche Godd
                                
                                  Iss oferr crisstnedd lede,
                                
                                  To frofrenn & to beldenn itt,
                                  Line 1780 
                                
                                  To lærenn & to gætenn;
                                
                                  & crisstnedd þed iss i þiss lif
                                
                                  Unnderr þe Faderr are,
                                
                                  & itt iss Godess arrke, & iss
                                
                                  All full off haliȝdomess,
                                  Line 1785 
                                
                                  All full off gode & clene menn
                                
                                  Þatt sinndenn Godd full cweme.

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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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