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

                                
                                  I þeȝȝre þohht, i þeȝȝre word,
                                
                                  I þeȝȝre bodiȝ dede,
                                  Line 11950 
                                
                                  Wiþþ Cristess hellpe, & wiþþ þatt lif
                                
                                  Þatt Crist iss lef & cweme;
                                
                                  Acc nollde nohht te laþe gast
                                
                                  Þatt draȝhenn forþ ne shæwenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt wass, alls he wisste itt wel,
                                  Line 11955 
                                
                                  Hiss aȝhenn shame & shande.
                                
                                  Þe deofell brohhte Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn o þe temmple
                                
                                  Upponn an sæte uppo þe rof,
                                
                                  All alls he shollde spellenn,
                                  Line 11960 
                                
                                  Forr þær wass greȝȝþedd sæ¯te o lofft
                                
                                  Till þa þatt sholldenn spellenn.
                                
                                  & forrþi þatt te laþe gast
                                
                                  Þær haffde don well offte
                                
                                  Þatt flocc off Issraæle þeod,
                                  Line 11965 
                                
                                  Þatt læredd wass o boke,
                                
                                  To fallenn unnderr idell ȝellp
                                
                                  & unnderr modiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Off þatt teȝȝ cuþenn tellenn spell
                                
                                  Off deop & dærne lare,
                                  Line 11970 
                                
                                  Þærfore he brohhte Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Uppo þatt illke sæte,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde don himm þær
                                
                                  Inn idell ȝellp to fallenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt he shollde cumenn dun
                                  Line 11975 
                                
                                  Þurrh hiss goddcunnde mahhte,
                                
                                  Swa þatt he nohht ne shollde hiss fo¯¯t
                                
                                  Uppo þe staness hirrtenn.

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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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