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

                                
                                  Swa þatt he shollde þurrh þe bræd
                                
                                  Fallenn i gluterrnesse.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þe Laferrd haffde wrohht
                                
                                  Himm fode onnȝæn hiss hunngerr,
                                
                                  Þa wære he þurrh þe deofless croc
                                  Line 11635 
                                
                                  I gluterrnesse fallenn,
                                
                                  & nohht ne wære he þanne Godd,
                                
                                  Forr Godd ne gillteþþ næfre.
                                
                                  All swa summ Adam allre firrst
                                
                                  Biswikenn wass þurrh æte,
                                  Line 11640 
                                
                                  All swa bigann þe deofell firrst
                                
                                  To fandenn Crist þurrh æte.
                                
                                  & forrþi wass þe Laferrd tær
                                
                                  To fasstenn — forr to shæwenn
                                
                                  Þatt tu ne mahht nohht cwennkenn rihht
                                  Line 11645 
                                
                                  Nan oþerr hæfedd sinne,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þu ne mahht nohht habbenn mahht
                                
                                  To cwennkenn gluterrnesse.
                                
                                  & forrþi birrþ uss allre firrst
                                
                                  Offtredenn gluterrnesse,
                                  Line 11650 
                                
                                  Swa þatt we muȝhenn habbenn mahht
                                
                                  To cwennkenn oþre sinness;
                                
                                  Forr gluterrnesse waccneþþ all
                                
                                   [col 287] Galnessess laþe strenncþe,
                                
                                  & all þe flæshess kaggerrleȝȝc
                                  Line 11655 
                                
                                  & alle fule lusstess
                                
                                  Biginnenn þære & springenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off gluterrnessess rote,

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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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