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

                                
                                  Þe firrste callf, þe firrste lamb,
                                
                                  Þe firrste kide, & swillke,
                                
                                  All þatt wass clene deor, all þatt
                                  Line 7805 
                                
                                  Þatt mann maȝȝ etenn offe,
                                
                                  All shollde beon to Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  Upponn hiss allterr offredd.
                                
                                  & all þatt wass unnclene deor,
                                
                                  Off horrs, off asse, off swillke,
                                  Line 7810 
                                
                                  All þatt mann shollde biggen u¯¯t
                                
                                  Wiþþ fife wehhte off sillferr.
                                
                                  & tatt wass sett þurrh Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn,
                                
                                  Þatt te birrþ seggenn wiþþ þin muþ,
                                  Line 7815 
                                
                                  & ec wiþþ innwarrd herrte,
                                
                                  Þatt all þin clene dede iss don
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd & þurrh hiss hellpe;
                                
                                  & swa þe birrþ itt offrenn Godd
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt te birrþ wel trowwenn,
                                  Line 7820 
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin setteþþ i þin þohht
                                
                                  God dede to biginnenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt all bigunnenn iss
                                
                                  & forþedd þurrh hiss hellpe.
                                
                                  & te birrþ biggenn u¯¯t att Godd
                                  Line 7825 
                                
                                  All þin unnclene dede,
                                
                                  & all þe birrþ itt biggenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Wiþþ fife wehhte off sillferr,
                                
                                  Þatt iss, þatt te birrþ biggenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  All þin missdede & sinne
                                  Line 7830 
                                
                                  Þurrh rihht dædbote, þatt birrþ beon
                                
                                  O fife wise forþedd.

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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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