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

                                
                                  Drah harrd & hefiȝ pine inoh
                                
                                  Þurrh fife grimme wundess,
                                
                                  Þa mihht tu lakenn þin Drihhtin
                                
                                  Gastlike i soþfasst læfe,
                                  Line 1445 
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þatt te to trowwenn wass
                                
                                  Þurrh þa twa bukkess tacnedd.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu cwemesst tin Drihhtin
                                
                                  Bi daȝȝess, & bi nihhtess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ fassting, & wiþþ bedesang,
                                  Line 1450 
                                
                                  Wiþþ cnelinng, & wiþþ wecche,
                                
                                  Þa lakesst tu wiþþ recless swa
                                
                                  Þin Godd i þine þæwess,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt maȝȝ wel hellpenn þe
                                
                                  To winnenn Godess are.
                                  Line 1455 
                                
                                  Forr all all swa summ recless smec
                                
                                  Iss swe¯¯t biforenn manne,
                                
                                  All all se iss swe¯¯t biforenn Godd
                                
                                  Þe gode manness bene.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þin herrte iss arefull,
                                  Line 1460 
                                
                                  & milde, & soffte, & nesshe,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu mihht wel árenn himm
                                
                                  Þatt iss ȝæn þe forrgilltedd,
                                
                                  & all forrȝifenn himm full neh
                                
                                  Þe rihhte domess wræche,
                                  Line 1465 
                                
                                  Aȝȝ whannse þu forrȝifesst tuss
                                
                                  Þin wraþþe & ec þin wræche,
                                
                                  Aȝȝ þanne lakesst tu þin Godd
                                
                                  Gastlike i þine þæwess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ laf þatt iss wiþþ elesæw
                                  Line 1470 
                                
                                  All smeredd wel & nesshedd.

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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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