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

                                
                                  Forr þurrh fulluhht i Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & þurrh þe rihhte læfe
                                
                                  Iss illc an sawle lihhtedd her
                                
                                  Þatt lifeþþ her onn erþe.
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                                  & illc an sawle þatt niss nohht
                                
                                  Þurrh rihhte læfe lihhtedd,
                                
                                  Illc an inn hire sinne iss dæd
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess ehne.
                                
                                  Her i þiss werelld iss an lif
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                                  Þatt all iss full off sinness,
                                
                                  Þatt iss þe lif off alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn hére & fillenn
                                
                                  All þeȝȝre flæshess fule lusst
                                
                                  Inn alle kinne sinne.
                                  Line 19050 
                                
                                  Þiss lif niss nohht rihht nemmnedd lif
                                
                                  Acc dæþ itt maȝȝ ben nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt draȝheþþ aȝȝ dunnwarrd
                                
                                  Inntill þe dæþ off helle.
                                
                                  Acc unnderr Crisstenndom iss lif
                                  Line 19055 
                                
                                  Þatt wel maȝȝ lif ben nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt draȝheþþ aȝȝ uppwarrd
                                
                                  Inntill þe lif off heffne.
                                
                                  & tiss lif unnderr Crisstenndom
                                
                                  Totwinneþþ & toshædeþþ
                                  Line 19060 
                                
                                  All Cristess follc fra defless follc
                                
                                  I dedess & i þæwess,
                                
                                  Inn etinng & inn drinnkinng ec,
                                
                                  I claþinng & i trowwþe,
                                
                                  Swa þatt te Laferrd Cristess hird,
                                  Line 19065 
                                
                                  Whil þatt itt lifeþþ here,

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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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