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

                                
                                  & ȝede himm sellf þa þiderr inn,
                                  Line 14550 
                                
                                  Swa summ himm Drihhtin tahhte.
                                
                                  & hise suness alle þre
                                
                                  & teȝȝre fowwre wifess
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ alle samenn ȝedenn inn
                                
                                  Wiþþ himm inntill þatt arrke,
                                  Line 14555 
                                
                                  & tokenn þiderr inn wiþþ hemm,
                                
                                  Swa summ hemm Drihhtin tahhte,
                                
                                  Off alle kinne cwike der
                                
                                  Off clene & off unnclene,
                                
                                  Þatt erþliȝ shaffte mihhte ben
                                  Line 14560 
                                
                                  Þurrh hemm efftsone stoffnedd.
                                
                                  & itt bigann to reȝȝnenn þa
                                
                                  All affterr Godess wille
                                
                                  Fowwerrtiȝ daȝhess all onnan,
                                
                                  Ne blann itt nohht to reȝȝnenn;
                                  Line 14565 
                                
                                  & ta wass waterr wid & sid
                                
                                  All oferr erþe flowedd,
                                
                                   [col 339] & wude, & feld, & dale, & dun,
                                
                                  All wass i waterr sunnkenn,
                                
                                  & all mannkinn wass drunncnedd ta
                                  Line 14570 
                                
                                  & alle cwike shaffte,
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn þa þatt Drihhtin barrh
                                
                                  Wiþþ Noþ i Noþess arrke,
                                
                                  & ec wiþþutenn all þatt maȝȝ
                                
                                  I waterr ben & libbenn.
                                  Line 14575 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt tu willt nimenn gom
                                
                                  Off þiss, whillc gate itt ȝede,

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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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