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

                                
                                  Aȝȝ att rihht time, & aȝȝ att hof,
                                
                                  Forr þatt iss Drihhtin cweme.
                                
                                  Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfo¯¯t
                                
                                  All þwerrt u¯¯t idellnesse,
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                                  & unnlusst & forrswundennleȝȝc
                                
                                  Itt drifeþþ fra þin herrte,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu lufesst itt
                                
                                  & follȝhesst itt wiþþ dede.
                                
                                  Þe sexte mahht iss hæfedd mahht
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                                  & Drihhtin swiþe cweme,
                                
                                  Þatt tu rihht nohht dreriȝ ne beo
                                
                                  Forr nan eorþlike unnseollþe,
                                
                                  Acc take bliþeliȝ þærwiþþ,
                                
                                  & þannke itt Godd wiþþ herrte,
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                                  & follȝhe swa þe gode Job
                                
                                  Þatt wass an king onn eorþe,
                                
                                  & all wiþþutenn gillt forrlæs
                                
                                  Onn an daȝȝ all hiss ahhte,
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ tær tekenn mare inoh
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                                  Þatt mare wass to menenn;
                                
                                  Tenn menn, an allfullwaxenn flocc
                                
                                  Off suness & off dohhtress,
                                
                                  Forrlæs þe gode Job þatt daȝȝ,
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t tekenn all hiss ahhte.
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                                  & ȝe¯¯ bilammp himm oþerr wa
                                
                                  Þatt mare mihhte himm eȝȝlenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt he nære wæpnedd wel
                                
                                  Þurrh þild onnȝæn unnseollþe.
                                
                                  He warrþ all, alls uss seȝȝþ soþ boc,
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                                  Full hefiȝlike secnedd,

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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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