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

                                
                                  Þiss blisse iss min, lafuliwiss,
                                
                                  & itt iss nuȝȝu filledd.
                                
                                  Þiss seȝȝde Sannt Johan off Crist,
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                                  & off himm sellfenn baþe;
                                
                                  & tiss wass seȝȝd alls iff he þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ oþre wordess seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Nile I nohht drathenn upponn me
                                
                                  Þatt me nohht ne bilimmpeþþ,
                                  Line 18385 
                                
                                  Ne maȝȝ I nohht bridgume ben
                                
                                  Off all þatt hallȝhe genge
                                
                                  Þatt Cristess hallȝhe brid shall ben,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn all hiss wille,
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh Crisstenndom
                                  Line 18390 
                                
                                  & þurrh þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Ne maȝȝ icc hemm nohht lesenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Þurrh dæþ off helle pine,
                                
                                  Ne sahhtlenn hemm wiþþ heffness king
                                
                                  Þatt haffde hemm all forrworrpenn,
                                  Line 18395 
                                
                                  Ne clennsenn hemm þurrh Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Off alle þeȝȝre sinness;
                                
                                  Ne nohht ne maȝȝ icc ȝifenn hemm
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn Cristess are
                                
                                  All to forrbuȝhenn helle wa,
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                                  & cumenn upp till heffne.
                                
                                  Acc þiss maȝȝ Crist & tiss shall Crist
                                
                                  All fillenn here & forþenn,
                                
                                  Ȝa þurrh hiss Goddcunndnesses mahht,
                                
                                  Ȝa þurrh hiss mennisscnesse.
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                                  Nile I nohht draȝhenn uppo me
                                
                                  Þurrh sinnfull modiȝnesse

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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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