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

                                
                                  Alls uss doþ o þiss time nu
                                
                                  Þe fulluhht unnderr Criste.
                                
                                  Acc nohht ne mihht itt oppnenn hemm
                                
                                  Þe ȝate off heoffness blisse;
                                  Line 4115 
                                
                                  Forr Crist nass nohht ȝe¯¯ cumenn þa
                                
                                  Ne wurrþenn mann onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Þatt shollde itt oppnenn þurrh hiss dæþ
                                
                                  Ȝæn alle gode sawless.
                                
                                  Forr swa þe firrste manness daȝȝ
                                  Line 4120 
                                
                                  Anan till Cristess rode
                                
                                  Wass Paradisess ȝate sperrd
                                
                                  Ȝæn all mannkinn onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Acc itt wass efft þurrh Cristess dæþ
                                
                                  Oppnedd ȝæn gode sawless,
                                  Line 4125 
                                
                                  Ȝæn þa þatt tăkenn Crisstenndom
                                
                                   [col 107] & endenn wel þærinne.
                                
                                  Þatt cnif wass, þatt witt tu full wel,
                                
                                  Off stan, & nohht off irenn,
                                
                                  Þatt hemm wass to þatt wikenn sett
                                  Line 4130 
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd Allmahhtiȝ sellfenn,
                                
                                  Forr tummbesherenn shapp þærwiþþ
                                
                                  Off þeȝȝre cnapechilldre,
                                
                                  Forr to bitacnenn uss þærþurrh
                                
                                  Swillc þing off ure nede,
                                  Line 4135 
                                
                                  Þatt uss & all Crisstene þeod
                                
                                  Birrþ fillenn all & forþenn.
                                
                                  Forr þe birrþ ummbesherenn her
                                
                                  Aweȝȝ all fra þin wille

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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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