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

                                
                                  & icchenn uppwarrd aȝȝ summ del
                                
                                  Inn alle gode dedess,
                                
                                  Forr swa to cwemenn bett & bett
                                  Line 11835 
                                
                                  Drihhtin & mare & mare.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd nollde nohht
                                
                                  Þe deofless wille forþenn
                                
                                  Off þatt he badd himm læpenn dun,
                                
                                  Þatt dide he forr to shæwenn
                                  Line 11840 
                                
                                  Þatt uss ne birrþ nohht takenn wiþþ,
                                
                                  Ȝiff aniȝ mann uss eggeþþ,
                                
                                  To don ohht orr to spekenn ohht
                                
                                  Off ifell & off sinne,
                                
                                  To werrsenn & to niþþrenn uss
                                  Line 11845 
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess ehne.
                                
                                  & witt tu þatt te laþe gast
                                
                                  Aȝȝ eggeþþ hise þeowwess,
                                
                                  To draȝhenn hemm aȝȝ upp o lofft
                                
                                  Þurrh niþ & modiȝnesse,
                                  Line 11850 
                                
                                  To ȝeornenn affterr laferrddom
                                
                                  & affterr modiȝ wikenn,
                                
                                  To beon abufenn oþre menn
                                
                                  I stalless & i sætess,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wile werrpenn hemm
                                  Line 11855 
                                
                                  Dun inntill depe sinness,
                                
                                  To fallenn inntill hellepitt
                                
                                  & inntill hellepine.
                                
                                  Forr he doþ hise þeowwess aȝȝ
                                
                                  To climbenn upp full heȝhe,
                                  Line 11860 
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wile scrennkenn hemm,
                                
                                  Full hefiȝ fall to fallenn.

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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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