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

                                
                                  All hise þannkess, all unnnedd,
                                
                                  All att hiss flæshess wille.
                                
                                  & tærþurrh iss þatt crisstnedd follc
                                
                                  Iss swiþe full off swillke
                                  Line 11460 
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn efft te laþe gast,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt teȝȝ deope sinness
                                
                                  Unnderr þe name off Crisstenndom
                                
                                  All þeȝȝre þannkess follȝhenn;
                                
                                  Þatt cumeþþ all la fuliȝwiss
                                  Line 11465 
                                
                                  Off — þatt te deofell næfre
                                
                                  Ne blinneþþ off to skrennkenn þa
                                
                                  Þatt haffdenn himm forrworrpenn,
                                
                                  & forr þatt we ne stanndenn nohht
                                
                                  Swa summ uss birrde stanndenn
                                  Line 11470 
                                
                                  Onnȝæness himm wiþþ haliȝ lif,
                                
                                  Ne wiþþ þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Uss birrde all eorþliȝ þing forrseon
                                
                                  To winnenn itt þurrh sinne,
                                
                                  & aȝȝ uss birrde beon forrlisst
                                  Line 11475 
                                
                                  Affterr þe blisse off heoffne,
                                
                                  & æfre fihhtenn ȝæn þe flæsh
                                
                                  & ȝæn þe flæshess lusstess.
                                
                                  Þa mihhte we þe laþe gast
                                
                                  Wiþþstanndenn & wiþþseggenn,
                                  Line 11480 
                                
                                  & winnenn síȝe & oferrhannd
                                
                                  Off himm wiþþ Cristess hellpe.
                                
                                  Crist comm u¯¯t inntill wessteland,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde fasstenn
                                
                                  Fowwerrtiȝ daȝhess all onn an
                                  Line 11485 
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn iwhillc fode,

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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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