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

                                
                                  Þe Crisstenndom wiþþ word & weorrc,
                                
                                  & wiþþ þe rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  All affterr þatt he Godd bihe¯¯t
                                
                                  Þatt daȝȝ þatt he wass fullhtnedd.
                                  Line 5575 
                                
                                  Himm reoweþþ þatt he dwelleþþ her
                                
                                  Swa swiþe lange onn eorþe
                                
                                  Þatt all iss full off hete & niþ,
                                
                                  & full off alle sinness.
                                
                                  Himm reoweþþ þatt he nafeþþ nohht
                                  Line 5580 
                                
                                  Off Paradisess riche
                                
                                  Þatt himm wass ȝarrkedd þurrh Drihhtin,
                                
                                  To brukenn á wiþþ blisse.
                                
                                  Himm reoweþþ þatt he nohht ne maȝȝ
                                
                                  Himm ȝemenn all fra sinne,
                                  Line 5585 
                                
                                  Þohh þatt he nohht ne kepeþþ her
                                
                                  To gilltenn hise þannkess.
                                
                                  Himm reoweþþ þatt he nohht ne maȝȝ
                                
                                  Swillc haliȝ bisne shæwenn,
                                
                                  Alls himm hiss herrte bereþþ to,
                                  Line 5590 
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt het¯¯ mihhte forþenn.
                                
                                  Himm reoweþþ ec off alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn deofless lare,
                                
                                  Off þatt hemm þwerrt u¯¯t nohht niss off
                                
                                  To betenn here sinness.
                                  Line 5595 
                                
                                  Swillc reowwsunng ȝifeþþ Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Þa menn þatt rihht himm cwemenn.
                                
                                  Þe seoffnde ȝife Godess Gast
                                
                                  Her ȝifeþþ Godess þeowwess
                                
                                  Þatt iss, to drædenn Drihhtin rihht
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                                  I þohht, i word, i dede.

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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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