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

                                
                                  & halde þe forr hinnderrling,
                                
                                  & forr well swiþe unnwresste,
                                
                                  & forr þatt mann þatt litell maȝȝ
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                                  & litell cann to gode,
                                
                                  & forr þatt mann þatt all wiþþ rihht
                                
                                  Birrþ hutedd ben & þutedd.
                                
                                   [col 120] Þiss illke mahht, tatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Iss haliȝ mahht to follȝhenn;
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                                  Forr swa þu lætesst lasse off þe,
                                
                                  Swa læteþþ Drihhtin mare,
                                
                                  & swa þu tellesst werre off þe,
                                
                                  Swa telleþþ Drihhtin bettre.
                                
                                  Þiss mahhte tredeþþ unnderrfo¯¯t
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                                  & cwennkeþþ i þin herrte
                                
                                  All rosinng & all idell ȝellp,
                                
                                  Forr þatt iss hæfedd sinne,
                                
                                  To ȝellpenn off þin duhhtiȝleȝȝc
                                
                                  & off þin gode dede,
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                                  To rosenn off þin haȝherrleȝȝc,
                                
                                  & leȝhenn off þe sellfenn.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu tellesst all þin mahht
                                
                                  & all þin witt unnwresste,
                                
                                  All idell ȝellp & idell ros
                                  Line 4910 
                                
                                  Þu cwennkesst i þe sellfenn.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu mihht tuss
                                
                                  All idell ȝellp forrwerrpenn,
                                
                                  Þa follȝhesst tu þærþurrh þatt stih
                                
                                  Þatt Cristess þeoww birrþ follȝhenn;

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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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