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

                                
                                  Þe rihhte dom iss starrc & harrd
                                
                                  & all þe rihhte wræche,
                                
                                  Swa summ itt wære scorrcnedd laf
                                
                                  Þatt iss wiþþutenn crummess.
                                  Line 1475 
                                
                                  & are & millce & mildherrtleȝȝc
                                
                                  & rihht forrȝifenesse,
                                
                                  Þatt iss þatt laf þatt smeredd iss
                                
                                  Wiþþ elesæw & nesshedd.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt tu willt makenn laf,
                                  Line 1480 
                                
                                  Þu þresshesst tine shæfess,
                                
                                  & siþþenn winndwesst tu þin corn,
                                
                                  & fra þe chaff itt shædesst,
                                
                                  & gaddresst swa þe clene corn
                                
                                  All fra þe chaff togeddre,
                                  Line 1485 
                                
                                  & grindesst itt, & cnedesst itt,
                                
                                  & harrdnesst itt wiþþ hæte;
                                
                                  & tanne mahht tu þin Drihhtin
                                
                                  Lakenn þærwiþþ tocweme,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu ledesst haliȝ lif
                                  Line 1490 
                                
                                  I þohht, i word, i dede.
                                
                                  & tu mihht ec gastlike laf
                                
                                  Onn oþerr wise ȝarrkenn,
                                
                                  & lakenn þin Drihhtin þærwiþþ
                                
                                  Well swiþe wel tocweme.
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                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu þurrh þin spell
                                
                                  Till rihhte læfe turrnesst
                                
                                  Þatt flocc þatt wass toskeȝȝredd ær
                                
                                   [col 40] Þurrh fele kinne dwilde,

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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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