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

                                
                                  Þurrh — þatt hiss Faderr haffde himm sennd
                                
                                  & gifenn himm to manne,
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                                  To þolenn dæþ o rodetre
                                
                                  Forr all mannkinne nede,
                                
                                  All þurrh þatt lufe & þurrh þatt lusst
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ till mannkinn haffdenn
                                
                                  Forþ wiþþ þatt Hallȝhe Frofre Gast,
                                  Line 17515 
                                
                                  Þatt cumeþþ off hemm baþe,
                                
                                  All þurrh þatt lufe & þurrh þatt lusst
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ till mannkinn haffdenn,
                                
                                  To lesenn menn off defless band
                                
                                  & u¯¯t off helle pine,
                                  Line 17520 
                                
                                  Þatt whase trowwenn shollde o Crist
                                
                                  Wel shollde wurrþenn borrȝhenn.
                                
                                  Whi seȝȝde Crist till Nicodem,
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin Godd off héffne
                                
                                  Swa lufede þiss middellærd,
                                  Line 17525 
                                
                                  Þiss werelld, tatt he sennde
                                
                                  Hiss aȝhenn Sune Allmahhtiȝ Godd,
                                
                                  To þolenn dæþ o rode,
                                
                                  Alls iff he shollde lesenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Þe middellærd off helle?
                                  Line 17530 
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt wass heffness whel forrgarrt
                                
                                  To dreȝhenn helle pine?
                                
                                  & lifft, & land, & waterrflod,
                                
                                  Hu wærenn þeȝȝ forrwrohhte
                                
                                  To dreȝhenn wa wiþþ mikell rihht
                                  Line 17535 
                                
                                  Inn helle wiþþ þe defell?
                                
                                  Off þise fowwre shaffte iss all
                                
                                  Þiss middell werelld timmbredd,

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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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