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

                                
                                  To fedenn & to fosstrenn hemm,
                                
                                  To steorenn & to berrȝhenn.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt tu læresst hemm
                                  Line 1560 
                                
                                  To þolenn illc unnsellþe
                                
                                  Wiþþ innwarrd heorrte & soþfasst þild,
                                
                                  All forr þe lufe off Criste,
                                
                                  All forr þatt lufe þatt iss ha¯¯t
                                
                                  I Cristess þeowwess heorrte,
                                  Line 1565 
                                
                                  Þær þurrh þu bakesst Godess laf
                                
                                  & harrdnesst itt þurrh hæte,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tu harrdnesst hemm wiþþ spell
                                
                                  To þolenn illc unnseollþe
                                
                                  Wiþþ soþfasst þild, all forr þatt fir
                                  Line 1570 
                                
                                  Þatt soþfasst lufe follȝheþþ·
                                
                                  Forr soþfasst lufe bærneþþ aȝȝ,
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff þut¯¯ mihht ohht findenn,
                                
                                  & whærs itt iss itt harrdneþþ all
                                
                                  Þe gode manness heorrte,
                                  Line 1575 
                                
                                  To þolenn wiþþ fullfremedd þild
                                
                                  All þatt tatt iss unnsellþe.
                                
                                  & sone summ þin laf beþ wel
                                
                                  All greþþedd tuss & ȝarrkedd,
                                
                                  Þa mahht tu lakenn Godd wiþþ all
                                  Line 1580 
                                
                                  Gastlike wel tocweme.
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin takeþþ æddmodliȝ
                                
                                  Wiþþ þa þatt till himm turrnenn,
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu ledesst clene lif
                                
                                  Onn alle kinne wise,
                                  Line 1585 
                                
                                  Þa lakesst tu þin Drihhtin swa
                                
                                  Gastlike i þine þæwess,

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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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