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

                                
                                  & uss birrþ beon full hoȝhefull
                                
                                  Abutenn ure sawless.
                                
                                  Herode king maȝȝ swiþe wel
                                
                                  Þe laþe gast bitacnenn;
                                
                                  Forr all hiss werrc & all hiss will
                                  Line 8065 
                                
                                  Wass ifell gast full cweme,
                                
                                  & onn himm sellfenn wass inoh
                                
                                  Hiss aȝhenn sinne sene;
                                
                                  Forr wel biforenn þatt he swallt
                                
                                  Wass himm þatt wa bigunnenn,
                                  Line 8070 
                                
                                  Þatt he shall dreȝhenn aȝȝ occ aȝȝ
                                
                                  Inn helle wiþþ þe deofell;
                                
                                   [col 206] Forr he warrþ seoc, & he bigann
                                
                                  To rotenn bufenn eorþe,
                                
                                  & tohh he toc wiþþ mete swa
                                  Line 8075 
                                
                                  Þatt nan ne mihhte himm fillenn,
                                
                                  & swa he stannc þatt iwhillc mann
                                
                                  Wass himm full laþ to nehhȝhenn;
                                
                                  & all himm wærenn fe¯¯t & þeos
                                
                                  Tobollenn & toblawenn.
                                  Line 8080 
                                
                                  Þa læchess þatt himm comenn to
                                
                                  & himm ne mihhtenn hælenn
                                
                                  He sloh, & seȝȝde þatt teȝȝ himm
                                
                                  Ne kepptenn nohht to berrȝhenn.
                                
                                  & he toc iwhillc hæfedd mann
                                  Line 8085 
                                
                                  Off all hiss kineriche,
                                
                                  & le¯¯t hemm stekenn inn an hus,
                                
                                  & haldenn swiþe fasste,

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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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