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

                                
                                  &, ȝiff himm þinnkeþþ god, he maȝȝ
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                                  Þe ȝifenn heoffness blisse.
                                
                                  & te birrþ lufenn iwhillc mann
                                
                                  Þatt lifeþþ her onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Þatt wise þatt tu lufesst te,
                                
                                  Þatt iss, to wurrþenn borrȝhenn;
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                                  Judisskenn mann & hæþenn mann
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ þe lufenn baþe,
                                
                                  Þatt eȝȝþerr turrne himm towarrd Crist
                                
                                  Swa þatt he wurrþe borrȝhenn.
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ þe lufenn ec þatt mann
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                                  Þatt hateþþ þe wiþþ herrte,
                                
                                  Þatt wreȝeþþ þe, þatt shendeþþ þe,
                                
                                  Þatt ræfeþþ þe þin ahhte.
                                
                                  Þuss birrþ þe lufenn alle þa,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu willt te berrȝhenn,
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                                  Þatt illc an bete hiss sinne swa,
                                
                                   [col 123] Þatt illc an wurrþe borrȝhenn;
                                
                                  Forr þu ne mihht nohht borrȝhenn ben
                                
                                  To brukenn eche blisse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu currsesst aniȝ mann,
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                                  & hatesst himm wiþþ herrte,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu wolldesst bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Off himm sen ifell ende;
                                
                                  Forr mann iss Godess handewerrc,
                                
                                  & an full aþell kinde,
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                                  & Godess onnlicnesse, & all
                                
                                  Full god inn all hiss kinde;

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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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