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

                                
                                  Boc seȝȝþ; þe birrþ wel ȝemenn þe
                                
                                  Þatt tu þin Godd ne fande.
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ te deofell wollde þær
                                  Line 11375 
                                
                                  Þe þridde siþe fandenn
                                
                                  Þe lefe Laferrd Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  & brohhte himm onn an lawe
                                
                                  Þatt wass well swiþe stæp & heh,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                  Line 11380 
                                
                                  & le¯¯t himm seon þe middellærd
                                
                                  & alle kinedomess,
                                
                                  & seȝȝde; all þiss icc ȝife þe,
                                
                                   [col 282] Ȝiff þu to me willt cnelenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þu willt lefenn upponn me,
                                  Line 11385 
                                
                                  & buȝhenn to min lare.
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Ȝaff sware onnȝæn, & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Ga, wiþerr gast, o bacch fra me,
                                
                                  Forr writenn stannt o boke;
                                  Line 11390 
                                
                                  Þe birrþ biforr þin Laferrd Godd
                                
                                  Cneolenn meoclike & lutenn,
                                
                                  & þeowwtenn wel wiþþ all þin mahht
                                
                                  Allwældennd Drihhtin ane.
                                
                                  & sone anan affterr þatt word
                                  Line 11395 
                                
                                  Himm wennde aweȝȝ þe deofell,
                                
                                  & enngless comenn sone anan
                                
                                  & tokenn Crist to þeowwtenn.
                                
                                  Her endeþþ nu þiss Goddspell þuss,
                                
                                  & uss birrþ itt þurrhsekenn,

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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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