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

                                
                                  & forr to shildenn hemm onnȝæn
                                
                                  Þe deofless laþe wiless.
                                
                                  Annd Godess enngless wærenn þa
                                
                                  Well swiþe glade wurrþenn
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                                  Off þatt, tatt Godd wass wurrþenn mann,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ wisstenn alle,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝre genge shollde ben
                                
                                  Wiþþ gode sawless ekedd,
                                
                                  & wurrþedd ec, & all forrþi
                                  Line 3920 
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ wærenn swiþe bliþe,
                                
                                  & all forrþi þeȝȝ sungenn þa
                                
                                  Þiss sang wiþþ mikell blisse,
                                
                                  Si Drihhtin upp inn heoffness ærd
                                
                                  Wurrþshipe, & loff, & wullderr,
                                  Line 3925 
                                
                                  & upponn eorþe griþþ & friþþ,
                                
                                  Þurrh Godess mildheorrtnesse,
                                
                                  Till iwhillc mann þatt habbenn shall
                                
                                  God heorrte & aȝȝ god wille.
                                
                                  Þiss sungenn þeȝȝ, forrþi þatt teȝȝ
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                                  Full wel þær unnderrstodenn,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝre genge shollde ben
                                
                                  Þurrh hallȝhe sawless ekedd,
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt biforenn Drihhtin Godd,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt waxenn mihhte,
                                  Line 3935 
                                
                                  Wurrþshipe & wullderr shollde ben,
                                
                                  Swa summ itt waxenn wære,
                                
                                  & ec forr þatt teȝȝ wisstenn wel
                                
                                  Þatt Godd comm her to manne,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde griþþ & friþþ
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                                  & soþ sahhtnesse settenn

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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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