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

                                
                                   [col 263] & tatt tatt Cristess þeww Johan
                                
                                  Þær seȝȝde to þe leode,
                                  Line 10385 
                                
                                  Þatt he ne wass nohht god inoh
                                
                                  Cristess shoþwang tunnbindenn;
                                
                                  Þatt wass alls iff he seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ opennlike spæche,
                                
                                  Namm I nohht wurrþi þatt I beo
                                  Line 10390 
                                
                                  Haldenn forr Crist onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Ne nohht ne draȝhe icc upponn me
                                
                                  To beon bridgume nemmnedd
                                
                                  Off Cristess brid, off Cristess hird,
                                
                                  Off all þatt hallȝhe genge
                                  Line 10395 
                                
                                  Þatt rihht shall lefenn uppo Crist
                                
                                  & hise laȝhess haldenn.
                                
                                  Ne draȝhe I þatt nohht upponn me
                                
                                  Þatt icc þeȝȝm muȝhe lesenn
                                
                                  Off hellepine, & ȝifenn hemm
                                  Line 10400 
                                
                                  To winnenn heoffness blisse;
                                
                                  Forr þatt ne maȝȝ nan shaffte don
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn Goddcunndnesse.
                                
                                  O þálde laȝheboc wass sett,
                                
                                  All þurrh Drihhtiness wille,
                                  Line 10405 
                                
                                  Þatt, ȝiff þatt tu ne kepptesst nohht
                                
                                  To tăkenn ne to weddenn
                                
                                  Þatt wifmann þatt te rihht bilammp
                                
                                  To tăkenn & to weddenn,
                                
                                  Þa shollde an oþerr cumenn forþ
                                  Line 10410 
                                
                                  Off all þatt illke maȝȝþe,

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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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