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

                                
                                  Swa swiþe þatt hiss bodiȝ toc
                                
                                  To rotenn bufenn eorþe
                                
                                  All samenn, brest, & wambe, & þes,
                                
                                  & cnes, & fe¯¯t, & shannkess,
                                  Line 4775 
                                
                                  & lende, & lesske, & shulldre, & bacc,
                                
                                  & side, & halls, & hæfedd.
                                
                                  All þiss wass utenn wiþþ unnhal
                                
                                  Þurrh swiþe unnride unnhæle,
                                
                                  & all he toc forrþrihht anan
                                  Line 4780 
                                
                                  To ro¯¯tenn & to stinnkenn,
                                
                                  & war & wirrsenn toc anan
                                
                                  U¯¯t off hiss lic to flowenn.
                                
                                  Her wass unnseollþe unnride inoh
                                
                                  Till an mann forr to dreȝhenn;
                                  Line 4785 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt he þurrh soþfasst þild
                                
                                  Wæpnedd full wel ne wære,
                                
                                  He munnde ben full dreriȝ mann,
                                
                                  & serrhfull inn hiss herrte
                                
                                  Off þatt, tatt himm wass all hiss þing
                                  Line 4790 
                                
                                  Biræfedd butenn gillte,
                                
                                  & off, þatt he forrlæs hiss streon
                                
                                  Onn an daȝȝ all bidene,
                                
                                  Tenn menn, swa summ icc seȝȝde nu,
                                
                                  Off suness & off dohhtress,
                                  Line 4795 
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn samenn inn an hus,
                                
                                   [col 118] & etenn þære & drunnkenn,
                                
                                  & tær fell dun þatt hus þurrh wind,
                                
                                  & oferrfell hemm alle,

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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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