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

                                
                                  Þurrh þatt teȝȝ haffdenn ræfedd lif
                                
                                  Þa þatt hemm haffdenn streonedd.
                                
                                  Profetess all wiþþutenn gillt
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                                  Þeȝȝ haffdenn brohht off life,
                                
                                  Well fele off þa þatt haffdenn hemm
                                
                                  I faderr stoke streonedd,
                                
                                  & wærenn swa þatt neddre lic
                                
                                  I þeȝȝre depe sinne,
                                  Line 9780 
                                
                                  Þatt slæþ hiss aȝhenn faderr aȝȝ
                                
                                  Hiss kinde forr to follȝhenn.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt teȝȝ wærenn ec
                                
                                  All fulle off grammcundnesse,
                                
                                  & ec all fulle off attriȝ lund,
                                  Line 9785 
                                
                                  & fulle off bitterr spæche,
                                
                                  & fulle off hete, & fulle off niþ,
                                
                                  & fulle off modiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh þeȝȝ wærenn, witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Þe neddre swiþe like.
                                  Line 9790 
                                
                                  & tatt tatt Cristess þeww Johan
                                
                                  Þær seȝȝde till þatt leode,
                                
                                  Ȝe neddre streon, wha tahhte ȝuw
                                
                                  To fleon Drihhtiness irre?
                                
                                  Þatt wass alls iff he seȝȝde hemm þuss
                                  Line 9795 
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche,
                                
                                  Ne sinndenn ȝe nohht tahhte ȝe¯¯t
                                
                                  Hu mannkinn maȝȝ forrbuȝhenn
                                
                                  Drihhtiness irre o Domess daȝȝ,
                                
                                  Þær he shall all follc demenn?
                                  Line 9800 
                                
                                  & forrþi þatt he sahh þatt teȝȝ
                                
                                  Ne wærenn ȝe¯¯ nohht tahhte,

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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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