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

                                
                                  Ne birrde þe nohht ȝeornenn itt
                                
                                  Onnȝæn Drihhtiness wille.
                                  Line 4685 
                                
                                  Loc nu whatt witt itt iss i þe,
                                
                                  To winnenn summwhatt littless
                                
                                  Onnȝæness Godess wille swa
                                
                                  Þatt tu þær Godd forrlesesst.
                                
                                  Tacc þe nu till þiss hallȝhe mahht
                                  Line 4690 
                                
                                  Wiþþ Jesu Cristess posstless,
                                
                                  All þwerrt u¯¯t to forrwerrpenn her
                                
                                  To winnenn ohht wiþþ sinne,
                                
                                  & beo þu ȝeornfull nihht & daȝȝ
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Godess wille.
                                  Line 4695 
                                
                                  Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfo¯¯t
                                
                                  Ȝittsunng & grediȝnesse,
                                
                                  & makeþþ þe full kisstiȝ mann
                                
                                  Off whattse Godd te leneþþ,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu lufesst itt
                                  Line 4700 
                                
                                  & follȝhesst itt wiþþ dede.
                                
                                  Þe feorþe mahht iss hæfedd mahht
                                
                                  & haliȝ mahht wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  Þatt tu beo þwerrt u¯¯t milde, & meoc,
                                
                                  & soffte, & stille, & liþe,
                                  Line 4705 
                                
                                  & þwerrt u¯¯t clene off grimmcunndleȝȝc
                                
                                  & þwerrt u¯¯t clene off braþþe.
                                
                                  Þiss iss an swiþe mikell mahht
                                
                                  & Drihhtin swiþe cweme,
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu þiss mahht
                                  Line 4710 
                                
                                  Mihht habbenn rihht & follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þa witt tu wel þatt Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Himm ressteþþ i þin herrte,

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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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