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

                                
                                  Fra gluterrnessess laþe lasst
                                
                                  & ec fra grediȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þa cunneþþ he to swennchenn þe
                                
                                  Þurrh sinnfull modiȝnesse,
                                
                                  He fandeþþ þa to lacchenn þe
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                                  Þurrh trapp off modiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Off þatt tatt tu þe ȝemesst wel
                                
                                  Þurrh þin Drihhtiness hellpe
                                
                                  Fra gluterrnessess laþe lasst
                                
                                  & ec fra grediȝnesse.
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                                  Þuss fandeþþ deofell Godess follc
                                
                                  O þise þrinne wise,
                                
                                  Þuss cunneþþ he to wundenn uss
                                
                                  Þurrh þise þrinne wæpenn,
                                
                                  & tuss he wile winnenn uss
                                  Line 12310 
                                
                                  Till himm wiþþ swillke wæpenn,
                                
                                  All alls he wann Eve & Adam
                                
                                  I Paradisess riche;
                                
                                  & all swa wollde winnenn Crist
                                
                                  Þurrh þise þrinne wæpenn,
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                                  All alls he wann Eve & Adam,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt he mihhte spedenn.
                                
                                  & her icc wile shæwenn ȝuw
                                
                                  Whatt gate he wann hemm baþe,
                                
                                  Whatt gate he wann Eve & Adam
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                                  Þurrh þise þrinne wæpenn,
                                
                                  & ec hu Crist himm oferrcomm
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þatt illke wæpenn.
                                
                                  Þurrh gluterrnesse wass Adam
                                
                                  I Paradys þurrhwundedd,

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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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