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

                                
                                  & forrþi birrþ mann allre firrst
                                
                                  Offtredenn gluterrnesse,
                                  Line 11660 
                                
                                  Swa þatt mann muȝhe þess te bett
                                
                                  Offtredenn oþre sinness;
                                
                                  Forr son se gluterrnesse iss dæd,
                                
                                  Sone iss þe bodiȝ bridledd,
                                
                                  & siþþenn iss itt lasse swinnc
                                  Line 11665 
                                
                                  To cwennkenn oþre sinness.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Ȝaff sware onnȝæn & seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Boc seȝȝþ þatt nohht ne maȝȝ þe mann
                                
                                  Bi bræd all ane libbenn,
                                  Line 11670 
                                
                                  Acc bi þatt word tatt cumeþþ u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off Godess muþess lare,
                                
                                  Þatt wass alls iff he seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche;
                                
                                  Þin egginng iss off flæshess lusst,
                                  Line 11675 
                                
                                  & nohht off sawless fode,
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt icc unnderrstanndenn maȝȝ
                                
                                  Þatt tu me willt biswikenn.
                                
                                  Nu, laferrdinngess, nimeþþ gom
                                
                                  Off þiss þatt here iss trahhtnedd.
                                  Line 11680 
                                
                                  Þe deofell spacc off eorþliȝ bræd
                                
                                  Off eorþliȝ lifess fode,
                                
                                  Forr deofell eggeþþ aȝȝ þe mann
                                
                                  To follȝhenn gluterrnesse.
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  Line 11685 
                                
                                  Spacc off þe sawless fode;
                                
                                  & ȝuw birrþ witenn witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt ȝure sawles fode

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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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