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

                                
                                  Forr þe birrþ lufenn Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                   [col 122] & lofenn himm & wurrþenn
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þin witt, wiþþ all þin lusst,
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þin bodiȝ mahhte,
                                  Line 5005 
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þin gast, wiþþ all þin þohht,
                                
                                  & mare þan þe sellfenn;
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu nohht ne stannde onnȝæn
                                
                                  Þin Godd o nane wise,
                                
                                  Ne þurrh þin witt, ne þurrh þin lusst,
                                  Line 5010 
                                
                                  Ne þurrh þin bodiȝ dede,
                                
                                  Ne þurrh þin gast, tatt tu þin Godd
                                
                                  Ne wraþþe þurrh þin wille,
                                
                                  Ne þurrh þin þohht, tatt tu þin Godd
                                
                                  Þurrh ifell þohht ne wraþþe.
                                  Line 5015 
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ þe lufenn þin Drihhtin
                                
                                  & mare þan þe sellfenn;
                                
                                  & tatt iss swiþe mikell rihht,
                                
                                  Forr Godd iss god wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  & tu þe sellf narrt rihht nohht wurrþ
                                  Line 5020 
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn Godess hellpe,
                                
                                  & arrt an þing þatt nohht ne dæh,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu Godd forrleosesst;
                                
                                  & forrþi birrþ þe lufenn Godd
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t mare þan þe sellfenn;
                                  Line 5025 
                                
                                  Forr all þin hellpe & all þin hald
                                
                                  Iss uppo Godess áre,
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe, ȝiff himm þinnkeþþ god,
                                
                                  Dun inntill helle werrpenn,

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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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