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

                                
                                  & tatt he wollde unnhilenn all
                                
                                  Þatt dærne diȝhellnesse
                                  Line 12945 
                                
                                  Þatt writenn wass þurrh Moysæn
                                
                                  Off himm & þurrh profetess,
                                
                                  To don hiss follc þurrh Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Gastlike all þatt tatt writenn wass
                                  Line 12950 
                                
                                  Off himm & off hiss come,
                                
                                  & tatt he wollde settenn upp
                                
                                  Goddspelless brihhte sunne
                                
                                  O mannkinn, þatt wass all bisett
                                
                                  Wiþþ si˘ness þessterrnesse,
                                  Line 12955 
                                
                                  Swa þatt menn sholldenn muȝhenn sen
                                
                                  Þurrh Goddspellbokess lare,
                                
                                  All hu þeȝȝ mihhtenn follȝhenn rihht
                                
                                  Þatt stih þatt shollde hemm ledenn
                                
                                  All rihht upp inntill heffness ærd,
                                  Line 12960 
                                
                                  Þær aȝȝ occ aȝȝ iss blisse.
                                
                                  & sone anan þe Laferrd toc
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn whatt teȝȝ sohhtenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde beldenn hemm
                                
                                  To spekenn þeȝȝre nede.
                                  Line 12965 
                                
                                  He seȝȝde þuss, whatt seke ȝitt,
                                
                                  & nollde he nawihht seȝȝenn,
                                
                                  Whamm seke ȝitt, forrþi þatt he
                                
                                  Swa wollde uss ȝifenn bisne,
                                
                                  Þatt uss ne birrþ uss sellfenn nohht
                                  Line 12970 
                                
                                  Þurrh modiȝnesse shæwenn,
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff þe Laferrd haffde þeȝȝm
                                
                                  Þær fraȝȝnedd whamm þeȝȝ sohhtenn,

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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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