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

                                
                                  & he comm neh att teȝȝre bacc
                                
                                  Wiþþ all hiss laþe genge,
                                
                                  & strac inn affterr Godess follc
                                  Line 14810 
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde hemm cwellenn.
                                
                                  & alls he comm swa forrþerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt all hiss follc wass inne,
                                
                                  Þa læc þe waterr oferr hemm
                                
                                  All affterr Godess wille,
                                  Line 14815 
                                
                                  Swa þatt te king wiþþ all hiss ferd
                                
                                  Wass drunncnedd unnderr flodess,
                                
                                  & Godess follc all hal & sund
                                
                                  Comm wel þurrh Godd to lande.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu nimesst mikell gom
                                  Line 14820 
                                
                                  Till Moysæsess dede,
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu nimesst bisne att himm
                                
                                  To gengenn att te nede
                                
                                  Whammse þu sest tatt wanntsumm iss
                                
                                  & wiþþ wanndraþ biþrungenn,
                                  Line 14825 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu takesst bisne att himm
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Godess wille,
                                
                                  To wurrþenn herrsumm till þin Godd
                                
                                  Inn harrd, i nesshe, & æfre,
                                
                                  Þa takesst tu, þatt witt tu wel,
                                  Line 14830 
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe ferþe time
                                
                                  Stafflike drinnch god till þin lif
                                
                                  & till þin sawle baþe,
                                
                                  Þatt mikell maȝȝ þe gengenn her
                                
                                  To winnenn Cristess are,
                                  Line 14835 
                                
                                  Alls iff þu drunnke waterrdrinnch
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe ferþe fe¯¯tless,

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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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