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

                                
                                  Swa þatt itt summ del nesshe be
                                
                                  To þolenn & to dreȝhenn;
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                                  & mildheorrtnesse birrþ ben aȝȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh rihhtwisnesse strengedd,
                                
                                  Swa þatt te millce nohht ne be
                                
                                  To soffte, ne to nesshe;
                                
                                  Forr mann maȝȝ ske¯¯t to soffte ben
                                  Line 2900 
                                
                                  Ȝæn þa þatt Drihhtin wraþþenn.
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt Josæp wass hoȝhefull
                                
                                  & mikell ummbeþohhte,
                                
                                  Off whatt himm wære bettst to don
                                
                                  Off þatt himm wass bilummpenn,
                                  Line 2905 
                                
                                  Off þatt hiss macche wurrþenn wass
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn himm wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  Þær þurrh he ȝaff ȝuw, læwedd follc,
                                
                                  Full opennlike bisne,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝuw birrþ nimenn mikell gom
                                  Line 2910 
                                
                                  To ȝemenn ȝure macchess,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ ne falle nohht i gillt
                                
                                  Þurrh ȝure ȝemelæste.
                                
                                  & ec Josæp uss ȝaff þurrh þatt
                                
                                  Full god & halsumm bisne,
                                  Line 2915 
                                
                                  Þatt Godess þeoww himm ȝeorne birrþ
                                
                                  Biþennkenn & bilokenn,
                                
                                  Off all þatt tatt he wile don
                                
                                  & tatt he wile mælenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt Drihhtin cweme be,
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                                  & halsumm till hiss sawle.
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt he wollde stilleliȝ
                                
                                  Fra Sannte Marȝe shædenn,

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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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