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

                                
                                  Þatt tu beo milde & meoc onnȝæn
                                
                                  Þin faderr & tin moderr,
                                
                                  & rædiȝ mann to don hemm god
                                
                                  Aȝȝ affterr þine fére;
                                
                                  Forr þu ne mihht nohht borrȝhenn ben
                                  Line 4430 
                                
                                  Ne winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Butt iff þu beo full god wiþþ hemm
                                
                                  To lif & ec to sawle;·
                                
                                  Þe fifte bodeword wass sett
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,
                                  Line 4435 
                                
                                   [col 112] Þatt tu ne file nohht ti lif
                                
                                  Þurrh ful forrleȝerrnesse;
                                
                                  Forr whase liþ inn horedom
                                
                                  He slaþ hiss aȝhenn sawle,
                                
                                  Butt iff he muȝhe betenn itt
                                  Line 4440 
                                
                                  Onn aniȝ kinne wise;·
                                
                                  Þe sexte bodeword wass sett
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,
                                
                                  Þatt tu ne sla nan oþerr mann
                                
                                  Wiþþ hande ne wiþþ herrte,
                                  Line 4445 
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt he nile cwellenn þe
                                
                                  Forr Crisstenndom to cwennkenn.
                                
                                  Whi seȝȝde icc nu þatt tu nan mann
                                
                                  Ne cwelle wiþþ þin herrte?
                                
                                  Maȝȝ aniȝ mann slan oþerr mann
                                  Line 4450 
                                
                                  & cwellenn himm wiþþ herrte?
                                
                                  Ȝa full wel seȝȝþ þatt Latin boc
                                
                                  Þatt þwerrt u¯¯t nohht ne leȝheþþ;

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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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