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

                                
                                  & all forrwerrpeþþ hæþenndom
                                
                                  & all þe defless lare.
                                  Line 17315 
                                
                                  Ne nohht ne mahht tu sen onn himm
                                
                                  Þurrh flæshess eȝhe sihhþe
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt himm comm swa seliliȝ
                                
                                  To findenn Godess are,
                                
                                  To cumenn till þe Crisstenndom
                                  Line 17320 
                                
                                  & till þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Ne nohht ne mahht tu sen onn himm
                                
                                  Whatt gate he shall ben borrȝhenn,
                                
                                  To cumenn upp till heffness ærd
                                
                                  To brukenn eche blisse.
                                  Line 17325 
                                
                                  & forr þatt Nicodem wass ȝe¯¯t
                                
                                  Unnborenn i þatt time
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast, & all ȝe¯¯t ta
                                
                                  Off gastliȝ lare unnlæredd,
                                
                                  Swa þatt he nohht ne cuþe ȝe¯¯t
                                  Line 17330 
                                
                                   [col 381] Gastlike lare findenn
                                
                                  Inn all þatt alde laȝheboc
                                
                                  Þatt he wass læredd onne,
                                
                                  Forrþi wass himm full arrfeþþ ȝe¯¯t
                                
                                  To sen whatt gate he mihhte
                                  Line 17335 
                                
                                  Ben borenn efft off Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh trowwþe,
                                
                                  & toc forrþi to fraȝȝnenn Crist
                                
                                  Off þatt, whatt gate he mihhte
                                
                                  Ben borenn efft off Haliȝ Gast,
                                  Line 17340 
                                
                                  To sen Drihhtiness riche.

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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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