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

                                
                                  Þatt ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Ȝaff sware onnȝæn, & seȝȝde,
                                  Line 11980 
                                
                                  Boc seȝȝþ, þe birrþ wel ȝemenn þe
                                
                                  Þatt tu þin Godd ne fande,
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ uss alle samenn beon
                                
                                  God lare off ure nede,
                                
                                  Forr þe ne birrþ nohht fandenn Godd,
                                  Line 11985 
                                
                                  Ȝiff he þe wile ohht gengenn
                                
                                  Off nan þing þatt tu mahht te sellf
                                
                                  Onn aniȝ wise raþenn,
                                
                                  Acc þatt tu þurrh þe sellfenn nohht,
                                
                                   [col 293] Ne þurrh nan manness hellpe,
                                  Line 11990 
                                
                                  Ne mahht nohht habbenn eorþliȝ witt
                                
                                  To brinngenn itt till ende,
                                
                                  Þatt birrþ þe leggenn upponn Godd,
                                
                                  Acc nohht forr himm to fandenn,
                                
                                  Acc forr to sekenn are att himm
                                  Line 11995 
                                
                                  & hellpe att swillke nede,
                                
                                  To forþenn þatt þurrh Godd tatt tu
                                
                                  Þurrh mann ne mahht nohht forþenn.
                                
                                  & mann maȝȝ unnderrstanndenn þiss
                                
                                  Anndswere o twinne wise,
                                  Line 12000 
                                
                                  Alls iff þe Laferrd seȝȝde þær
                                
                                  All till þe deofell ane,
                                
                                  Þatt himm ne birrde nohht hiss Godd,
                                
                                  Ne nohht hiss Laferrd fandenn,
                                
                                  Alls iff he seȝȝde þuss till himm,
                                  Line 12005 
                                
                                  Ne birrþ þe me nohht fandenn,

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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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