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

                                
                                  Boc seȝȝþ þatt nohht ne maȝȝ þe mann
                                
                                  Bi bræd all ane libbenn,
                                
                                  Acc bi þatt word tatt cumeþþ u¯¯t
                                  Line 11345 
                                
                                  Off Godess muþess lare.
                                
                                  & tanne toc þe deofell himm
                                
                                  Inntill þatt hallȝhe chesstre
                                
                                  Þatt iss ȝehatenn Ȝerrsalæm,
                                
                                  & brohhte himm o þe temmple,
                                  Line 11350 
                                
                                  & sette himm heȝhe uppo þe rhof
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn att te waȝhe.
                                
                                  & tære he seȝȝde þuss till Crist,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ;
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu Godess Sune arrt wiss
                                  Line 11355 
                                
                                  Cumm skaþelæs till eorþe,
                                
                                  Do þe nu þurrh þe sellfenn dun
                                
                                  & þurrh þin Goddcunndnesse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu Godess Sune arrt wiss
                                
                                  Þatt cumenn arrt to manne;
                                  Line 11360 
                                
                                  Forr writenn iss o boc, þatt he
                                
                                  Wel hafeþþ seȝȝd & cwiddedd
                                
                                  Forrlannge till hiss enngleþeod
                                
                                  Off þe, þatt arrt himm dere,
                                
                                  Off — þatt teȝȝ shulenn ȝemenn þe
                                  Line 11365 
                                
                                  Att alle þine nede,
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ shulenn tăkenn þe
                                
                                  Bitwenenn hemm wiþþ hande,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu nohht ne shallt tin fot
                                
                                  Uppo þe staness hirrtenn.
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                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Ȝaff sware onnȝæn & seȝȝde;

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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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