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

                                
                                  Off all þatt follc þatt fra þiss daȝȝ
                                
                                  Till Domess daȝȝ shall wurrþenn,
                                
                                  Forr all þatt follc þatt æfre wass
                                
                                  & all þatt ȝe¯¯t shall wurrþenn,
                                
                                  All iss itt nuȝȝu demmd, & sett
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                                  O boc, & tald, & rimedd,
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd, & all he seþ nuȝȝu
                                
                                  Whatt illc an mann shall findenn,
                                
                                  Whatt mede illc an shall unnderrfon
                                
                                  Att Godd forr hise dedess.
                                  Line 17690 
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin hu þe dom shall gan
                                
                                  All wa¯¯t & æfre wisste,
                                
                                  Forr Godess eȝhe & Godess witt
                                
                                  All seþ, all wat, all cnaweþþ,
                                
                                  Ȝa þatt tatt wass, ȝa þatt tatt iss,
                                  Line 17695 
                                
                                  Ȝa þatt tatt ȝe¯¯t shall wurrþenn;
                                
                                   [col 387] & ȝiff þu borrȝhenn best, tatt beþ
                                
                                  All þurrh Drihhtiness are,
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tu þæraffterr swannc
                                
                                  Wel wiþþ Drihhtiness hellpe.
                                  Line 17700 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu borrȝhenn nohht ne best,
                                
                                  Þatt beþ all þurrh þi sinne,
                                
                                  & þurrh rihht dom þu best ta demmd
                                
                                  To dreȝhenn helle pine,
                                
                                  All affterr þatt tin addlinng iss
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                                  Na lasse, ne na mare.
                                
                                  & tatt he þær till Nicodem
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t spacc þuss off himm sellfenn,

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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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