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

                                
                                  Þatt mann birrþ lokenn allre mast
                                
                                  Aȝȝ till hiss aȝhenn sawle;
                                
                                  Forr birrþ me nowwþerr hellpenn þe
                                
                                  To lif, ne to þe sawle,
                                  Line 3125 
                                
                                  Swa þatt icc ohht forrgillte me
                                
                                  Ȝæn Godd onn aniȝ wise.
                                
                                  Acc all þatt icc maȝȝ gengenn þe,
                                
                                  Swa þatt I nohht ne gillte,
                                
                                  All birrþ me bli˘þelike don
                                  Line 3130 
                                
                                  Forr heofennlike mede,
                                
                                  & nohht ne birrþ me gengenn þe
                                
                                  Forr eorþliȝ loff to winnenn.
                                
                                  Josæp all unnderrstod full wel
                                
                                  Þatt Godess enngell seȝȝde,
                                  Line 3135 
                                
                                  & ras himm upp off slæpe anan
                                
                                  Þurrh soþfasst herrsummnesse,
                                
                                  & dide all alls himm bedenn wass,
                                
                                  & toc wel wiþþ hiss macche;
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wisste þa þurrh whatt
                                  Line 3140 
                                
                                  Ȝho wurrþenn wass wiþþ childe.
                                
                                  & wel bilimmpeþþ þatt itt seȝȝþ
                                
                                  Þatt he ras upp off slæpe,
                                
                                  Forr he wass þa brohht u¯¯t off all
                                
                                  Orrtrowwþe & orrraþnesse,
                                  Line 3145 
                                
                                  Son summ he wisste inoh þurrh whatt
                                
                                  Hiss macche wass wiþþ childe;
                                
                                  Forr þatt wass þurrh wanntrowwþess slæp,
                                
                                  Þatt he wass off hiss macche
                                
                                  All orrraþ whatt he mihhte don,
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                                  Off þatt ȝho wass wiþþ childe.

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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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