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

                                
                                  & off þatt, tatt iss all þe dom,
                                
                                  Þatt lihht comm upponn erþe,
                                
                                  & menn ne lufenn nohht te lihht
                                
                                  Acc lufenn þessterrnesse,
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                                  Forrþi þatt teȝȝre werrc iss all
                                
                                  Unngod & all unnclene;
                                
                                  & off, þatt he þatt ifell doþ
                                
                                  Aȝȝ hateþþ lihht & leme;
                                
                                  & off, þatt he þatt doþ summ god
                                  Line 17060 
                                
                                  Aȝȝ cumeþþ to þe leme,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wile þatt mann se
                                
                                  & wi˘te þatt hiss dede
                                
                                  Iss all i Godd, & all þurrh Godd,
                                
                                  & þurrh hiss hellpe forþedd.
                                  Line 17065 
                                
                                  Off swillc & swillc wass Nicodem
                                
                                  Wel wurrþ to wurrþenn læredd,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he comm wiþþ mikell lusst
                                
                                  Summ god att Crist to lernenn.
                                
                                  & forr þatt Crist ne wollde nohht
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                                  Þatt Nicodem ne wisste,
                                
                                  Þatt he ne shollde muȝhenn nohht
                                
                                  Ben borrȝhenn, þohh he mihhte
                                
                                  Lefenn & trowwenn rihht o Crist
                                
                                  Þurrh Cristess miccle tacness,
                                  Line 17075 
                                
                                  Butt iff he wære att haliȝ funnt
                                
                                  Efft borenn her onn erþe,
                                
                                  Off waterr & off Haliȝ Gast,
                                
                                  Unnderr þe rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  Forrþi toc Crist forrþrihht anan
                                  Line 17080 
                                
                                  Unnbedenn & unnbonedd

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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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