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

                                
                                  To winnenn hemm þurrh haliȝ lif
                                
                                  To brukenn eche blisse.
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Crist comm þær
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde shæwenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt he wollde cumenn þær,
                                  Line 14100 
                                
                                  Þatt weddlac iss himm cweme,
                                
                                  & tatt ȝe muȝhenn i weddlac,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt ȝe rihht itt haldenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh gode dedess cwemenn Godd,
                                
                                  & addlenn eche blisse.
                                  Line 14105 
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Crist comm þær,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde shæwenn
                                
                                  All mannkinn þurrh hiss firrste mahht
                                
                                  Forr whatt he comm to manne.
                                
                                  He turrnde waterr inntill win
                                  Line 14110 
                                
                                  Att tatt bridaless sæte,
                                
                                  Forr all mannkinn to shæwenn swa
                                
                                  Forr whatt he comm onn erþe.
                                
                                  Þe waterr tacneþþ uss mannkinn
                                
                                  Þatt erneþþ till hiss ende,
                                  Line 14115 
                                
                                  Swa summ þe waterr erneþþ forþ,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt nohht ne letteþþ·
                                
                                  & Haliȝ Gastess lare iss uss
                                
                                  Þurrh winess drinnch bitacnedd;
                                
                                  Forr rihht all swa se winess drinnch
                                  Line 14120 
                                
                                  Þe wharrfeþþ all þin herrte,
                                
                                   [col 332] & all þin þohht, & all þin lusst,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tut¯¯ lannge drinnkesst,

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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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