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

                                
                                  Whatt god wass þatt twifalde gast
                                  Line 5230 
                                
                                  Þatt Helyseow þær ȝeorrnde?
                                
                                  Soþ lufe þatt birrþ ben twifald,
                                
                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd;
                                
                                  Forr þe birrþ lufenn Godd & mann
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu willt ben borrȝhenn.
                                  Line 5235 
                                
                                  He badd hiss maȝȝstre fillstnenn himm
                                
                                  Towarrd Drihhtin wiþþ bone,
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtinn ȝæfe himm wille & mahht
                                
                                  Soþ lufe rihht to follȝhenn;
                                
                                  All alls het¯¯ haffde ȝifenn ær
                                  Line 5240 
                                
                                  Hiss maȝȝstre, þiss he ȝeorrnde,
                                
                                  & he wass wis, forr he sahh wel,
                                
                                  & wisste wel to soþe,
                                
                                  Þatt all Drihhtiness bodeword
                                
                                  & all Goddspelless lare
                                  Line 5245 
                                
                                  Iss filledd þurrhu¯¯tlike wel,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt soþ lufe iss filledd;
                                
                                  Forr lufe off Godd & lufe off mann,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu rihht itt haldesst,
                                
                                  Itt doþ þe don i word, i werrc,
                                  Line 5250 
                                
                                  All þatt tu mahht to gode,
                                
                                   [col 127] & itt te doþ affterr þin mahht
                                
                                  All ifell to forrbuȝhenn;
                                
                                  & tær iss all þatt te birrþ don,
                                
                                  & all þe bode iss filledd,
                                  Line 5255 
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu lufesst Godd & mann,
                                
                                  & forr þe lufe off baþe

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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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