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

                                
                                  Þatt tu well swiþe unnorneliȝ
                                
                                  Aȝȝ off þe sellfenn læ¯te,
                                
                                  & halde þe forr hinnderrlinng,
                                  Line 4860 
                                
                                  & forr well swiþe unnwresste,
                                
                                  & forr þatt mann þatt litell maȝȝ
                                
                                  & litell cann to gode.
                                
                                  Þiss illke mahht iss hæfedd mahht
                                
                                  & halsumm forr to follȝhenn.
                                  Line 4865 
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Crist himm sellf
                                
                                  Uss ȝaff heroffe bisne,
                                
                                  Þær þær he seȝȝde himm sellf whilumm
                                
                                  Þurrh hiss prophetess tunge;
                                
                                  Icc amm an wurrm, & nohht nan mann,
                                  Line 4870 
                                
                                  Uppbrixle menn bitwenenn;
                                
                                  Icc amm þatt þing þatt nohht ne dæh,
                                
                                  Þatt eȝȝwhær iss forrworrpenn,
                                
                                  & whærse icc amm bitwenenn menn
                                
                                  Icc hutedd amm & þutedd,
                                  Line 4875 
                                
                                  & all onn hæþing & o skarn
                                
                                  Off me gaþ eȝȝwhær spæche.
                                
                                  Þuss spacc þe Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Þurrh hiss prophetess tunge,
                                
                                  Off þatt tatt he forrworrpenn wass
                                  Line 4880 
                                
                                  Amang Judiskenn þeode;
                                
                                  Forr Godess Sune Allmahhtiȝ Godd,
                                
                                  Þatt all þe weorelld wrohhte,
                                
                                  Warrþ an unnorne & wrecche mann,
                                
                                  Forr þe to ȝifenn bisne,
                                  Line 4885 
                                
                                  Þatt tu well swiþe unnorneliȝ
                                
                                  Aȝȝ off þe sellfenn læte,

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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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