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

                                
                                  Wiþþ þerrflinng bræd swa þatt tu mihht
                                
                                  Drihhtiness are winnenn.
                                
                                  Forr þerrflinng bræd iss clene bræd,
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                                  Forr þatt itt iss unnberrmedd,
                                
                                  & itt bitacneþþ clene lif,
                                
                                  & alle clene þæwess,
                                
                                  & clene þohht, & clene word,
                                
                                  & alle clene dedess.
                                  Line 1595 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þin heorrte iss harrd & starrc,
                                
                                  & stĕdefasst o Criste,
                                
                                  To þolenn forr þe lufe off himm
                                
                                  All þatt tatt iss to dreȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þa lakesst tu þin Drihhtin swa
                                  Line 1600 
                                
                                  Gastlike i þine þæwess,
                                
                                  Wiþþ fasst & findiȝ laf & harrd
                                
                                  Wiþþinnenn & wiþþutenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt maȝȝ wel hellpenn þe
                                
                                  To winnenn Godess are.
                                  Line 1605 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu mihht forrwerrpenn her
                                
                                  Þi faderr, & ti moderr,
                                
                                  & wif, & child, & hus, & ham,
                                
                                  & freond, & land, & ahhte,
                                
                                  & all forrwerrpenn her þwerrt u¯¯t
                                  Line 1610 
                                
                                  Bitwenenn menn to biggenn,
                                
                                  & ledenn harrd & haliȝ lif
                                
                                  All ane i wilde wesste,
                                
                                  & pinenn þær þi bodiȝ a
                                
                                  Wiþþ chĕle & þrisst & hunngerr,
                                  Line 1615 
                                
                                  Wiþþ fasstinng, & wiþþ swinnc & swa¯¯t,
                                
                                  Wiþþ bedess, & wiþþ wecchess,

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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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