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

                                  
                                    Swa þatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  
                                    Swe¯¯tlike itt unnderrfannge.
                                  
                                    Þiss wass bitacnedd þurrh þe sallt
                                  
                                    Þatt ure mĕte swéteþ,
                                  
                                    Ȝiff þatt iss þatt mann wile itt don
                                    Line 1650 
                                  
                                    Wiþþ witt & skill þærinne.
                                  
                                    Forr witt & skill iss wel inoh
                                  
                                    Þurrh salltess smacc bitacnedd,
                                  
                                    & tatt forrþi þatt witt & skill
                                  
                                    Iss god inn alle þinge,
                                    Line 1655 
                                  
                                    All swa summ sallt iss swiþe god
                                  
                                    Þær þær itt tobilimmpeþþ;
                                  
                                    & all forrþi wass æfre sallt
                                  
                                    Wiþþ alle lakess offredd,
                                  
                                    Forrþi þatt nohht ne maȝȝ ben don
                                    Line 1660 
                                  
                                    Allmahhtiȝ Godd tocweme,
                                  
                                    Bu¯¯t iff itt be wiþþ witt & skill
                                  
                                    & luffsummlike forþedd.
                                  
                                    All þuss þu mahht nu lakenn Godd
                                  
                                    Gastlike i þine þæwess,
                                    Line 1665 
                                  
                                    Wiþþ all þatt lac þatt offredd wass
                                  
                                    Biforenn Cristess come.

                                  
                                    Icc seȝȝde ȝuw nu littlær her
                                  
                                    Biforenn o þiss lare
                                  
                                    Summ del off — þatt an waȝherifft
                                    Line 1670 
                                  
                                    Was spredd fra wah to waȝhe,
                                  
                                    Biforenn an allterr þatt wass
                                  
                                    Innresst i þeȝȝre minnstre,

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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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