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

                                
                                  Forr sefenn winnterr haffde he beon
                                
                                   [col 210] Tosamenn inn Egippte,
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                                  & he wass, þanne he þiderr for,
                                
                                  Neh off an ȝeress elde.
                                
                                  Þatt Jesu Crist comm efft onnȝæn
                                
                                  Inntill hiss aȝhenn birde,
                                
                                  Son summ þatt laþe Herode king
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                                  & ta þatt wiþþ himm heldenn
                                
                                  Inn heore sinness fellenn dun,
                                
                                  & forenn inntill helle,
                                
                                  Þatt uss bitacneþþ witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh all full openn bisne
                                  Line 8410 
                                
                                  Þatt Cristess hird, Cristene follc,
                                
                                  Shall farenn inntill heoffne
                                
                                  & inntill Paradisess ærd,
                                
                                  Inntill þeȝȝre aȝhenn birde.
                                
                                  Forr affterr þatt te laþe gast
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                                  & alle þatt himm follȝhenn
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin shulenn worrpenn beon
                                
                                  Dun inntill hellepine.
                                
                                  & tatt shall beon o Domess daȝȝ,
                                
                                  Swa shall itt tanne wharrfenn
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                                  Bitwenenn Cristess hallȝhe þeod
                                
                                  & deofless laþe genge.
                                
                                  Forr þa shall all þe deofless hird
                                
                                  Till helle wiþþ þe deofell,
                                
                                  & siþþenn shall all Cristess hird
                                  Line 8425 
                                
                                  Wiþþ Crist till heoffne wendenn.

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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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