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

                                
                                  & tohh þe birrþ ben harrd wiþþ skill
                                
                                  Onnȝæness alle sinness,
                                  Line 4715 
                                
                                  Forr þu mihht ske¯¯t to nesshe ben
                                
                                  Ȝæn þa þatt Drihhtin wraþþenn.
                                
                                  Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfo¯¯t
                                
                                  All grimmeleȝȝc & braþþe,
                                
                                  & hete & niþ & awwerrmod
                                  Line 4720 
                                
                                  Itt drifeþþ fra þin herrte,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu lufesst itt
                                
                                   [col 117] & follȝesst itt wiþþ dede;
                                
                                  Forr whase iss þwerrt u¯¯t milde, & meoc,
                                
                                  & soffte, & stille, & liþe,
                                  Line 4725 
                                
                                  All he forrwerrpeþþ grimmeleȝȝc,
                                
                                  & hete, & niþ, & braþþe.
                                
                                  Þe fifte mahht iss hæfedd mahht
                                
                                  & haliȝ mahht to follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þatt tu beo swinncfull att tin mahht
                                  Line 4730 
                                
                                  Inn alle gode dedess,
                                
                                  Aȝȝ att rihht time, & aȝȝ wiþþ skill,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt Godd beo cweme;
                                
                                  Forr clene dede & clene swinnc
                                
                                  Iss Drihhtin swiþe cweme,
                                  Line 4735 
                                
                                  & himm iss idellnesse laþ
                                
                                  & all forrswundennesse;
                                
                                  Forr idellleȝȝc iss hæfedd plihht
                                
                                  & wiþþreþþ wiþþ þin sawle,
                                
                                  & forrþi birrþ þe ben swinncfull
                                  Line 4740 
                                
                                  Inn alle gode dedess

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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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