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

                                
                                  Affterr þatt little witt tatt me
                                
                                  Min Drihhtin hafeþþ lenedd.
                                  Line 10060 
                                
                                  & mann maȝȝ unnderrstanndenn þiss
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t onn an oþerr wise,
                                
                                  Þatt axe shollde þa beon sett
                                
                                  Rihht att te treowwess rote,
                                
                                  & ec þatt illc an ifell treo
                                  Line 10065 
                                
                                  Þatt ifell wasstme bære,
                                
                                  Þa shollde wurrþenn hæwenn upp
                                
                                  & i þe fir beon worrpenn.
                                
                                  Þa Sannt Johan bigann þe follc
                                
                                  To spellenn i þe wesste;
                                  Line 10070 
                                
                                  Forr þa wass cumenn to, þatt Crist
                                
                                  Þa shollde cumenn newenn,
                                
                                  & þurrh himm sellfenn hæwenn upp
                                
                                  Wiþþ bitell wræchess axe,
                                
                                  & werrpenn inntill hellefir
                                  Line 10075 
                                
                                  To bærnenn butenn ende,
                                
                                  All þatt flocc off Judisskenn follc
                                
                                  Þatt shollde himm all forrwerrpenn
                                
                                  & all forrseon to berenn her
                                
                                  God wasstme & gode dedess,
                                  Line 10080 
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & þurrh þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  & tatt he shollde itt hæwenn upp
                                
                                  Rihht att te treowwess rote,
                                
                                  Þatt iss to seggenn opennliȝ,
                                  Line 10085 
                                
                                  Rihht att tatt follkess ende;
                                
                                  Forr þa wass cumenn time to,
                                
                                  Þatt Godd ne shollde kepenn

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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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