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

                                
                                  Butt iff þu þwerrt u¯¯t hæþenndom
                                
                                  & hæþenn godd forrwerrpe,
                                
                                  & lefe onn an Allmahhtiȝ Godd
                                
                                  & hise laȝhess halde.
                                
                                  Þatt oþerr bodeword wass sett
                                  Line 4400 
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,
                                
                                  Þatt tu ne take nohht wiþþ skarn,
                                
                                  Wiþþ hæþinng, ne wiþþ idell,
                                
                                  Þe name off ure Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Þatt forr þe swallt o rode;
                                  Line 4405 
                                
                                  Forr þu ne mihht nohht borrȝhenn ben
                                
                                  Ne winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu nohht ne kepesst her
                                
                                  Noff Crist, noff Cristess moderr.
                                
                                  Þe þridde bodeword wass sett
                                  Line 4410 
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,
                                
                                  Þatt tu stannde inn þe messedaȝȝ
                                
                                  To freollsenn wel & hallȝhenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt illc an unnclene lusst
                                
                                  & illc an ifell wille
                                  Line 4415 
                                
                                  Beo tredenn dun þurrh lufe off Godd,
                                
                                  & cwennkedd i þin herrte,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tin herrte beo þatt bedd
                                
                                  Þatt Godd himm ressteþþ inne;
                                
                                  Forr þu ne mihht nan messedaȝȝ
                                  Line 4420 
                                
                                  Drihhtin tocweme freollsenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tin herrte iss þeoww
                                
                                  Off aniȝ ifell wille.
                                
                                  Þe feorþe bodeword wass sett
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,

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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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