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

                                
                                  Forr ȝiff þu beresst hete & niþ
                                
                                  Ȝæn aniȝ lif & sawle,
                                  Line 4455 
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu wolldesst bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Sen ifell ende off baþe,
                                
                                  Himm haffst tu slaȝenn witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Wiþþ herrte & nohht wiþþ hande;
                                
                                  & tu ne mihht nohht borrȝhenn ben
                                  Line 4460 
                                
                                  Ne winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Butt iff þu muȝhe off hete & niþ
                                
                                  All clennsenn wel þin herrte.
                                
                                  Þe sefennde wass sett þurrh Godd
                                
                                  & all forr þine nede,
                                  Line 4465 
                                
                                  Þatt tu þe loke wel þatt tu
                                
                                  Ne stĕle nohht ne ræfe;
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff þu skaþesst aniȝ mann
                                
                                  Þu skaþesst firrst te sellfenn,
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu ræfesst me min þing
                                  Line 4470 
                                
                                  Þu ræfesst Godd tin sawle;
                                
                                  & tu ne mihht nohht borrȝhenn ben
                                
                                  Ne winnenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Butt iff þu cweme Drihhtin wel
                                
                                  Wiþþ þin unnshaþiȝnesse.
                                  Line 4475 
                                
                                  Þehhtennde bodeword wass sett
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd forr þine nede,
                                
                                  Þatt tu þe loke wel fra mán
                                
                                  Inn aþess & i wittness,
                                
                                  Þatt tu ne swere nan manaþ
                                  Line 4480 
                                
                                  Forr lufe ne forr eȝȝe,
                                
                                  Ne þatt tu nohht ne cume forrþ
                                
                                  Wiþþ woh to berenn wittness;

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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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