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

                                
                                  Forr all þiss weorelldlif iss full
                                  Line 2980 
                                
                                  Off sinness þeossterrnesse.
                                
                                   [col 79] & sinne iss opennlike inoh
                                
                                  Þurrh þeossterrnesse tacnedd,
                                
                                  Forr sinne, ȝiff þut¯¯ lufesst ohht,
                                
                                  Forrblendeþþ all þin heorrte,
                                  Line 2985 
                                
                                  Swa—þatt itt litell nimeþþ gom
                                
                                  Hu mikell pine itt follȝheþþ·
                                
                                  & tatt tatt Godess enngell spacc
                                
                                  Till Josæp þær he sleppte,
                                
                                  & seȝȝde þatt hiss macche wass
                                  Line 2990 
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  Þatt birrþ uss lokenn whatt itt iss
                                
                                  & whatt itt wile seggenn;
                                
                                  Forr uss birrþ unnderrstanndenn wel
                                
                                  & soþfasstlike trowwenn,
                                  Line 2995 
                                
                                  Þatt Godess Gast iss soþfasst Godd
                                
                                  & Allmahhtiȝ wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  & Godess Gast iss kariteþ
                                
                                  & soþfasst lufe nemmnedd;
                                
                                  & tatt wass all þurrh kariteþ
                                  Line 3000 
                                
                                  & þurrh soþ lufe forþedd,
                                
                                  Þatt Godess Sune Allmahhtiȝ Godd
                                
                                  Warrþ mann off Sannte Marȝe.
                                
                                  & tatt he seȝȝde þatt ȝho wass
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast wiþþ childe,
                                  Line 3005 
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝde he wiss forr þatt ȝho wass
                                
                                  Þurrh kariteþ wiþþ childe;
                                
                                  Forr Godd warrþ mann þurrh cariteþ
                                
                                  & þurrh soþ lufe onn eorþe.

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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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