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

                                
                                  & ec þu follȝhesst opennliȝ
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd Cristess posstless,
                                
                                  Þatt forr þe soþe lufe off Crist
                                
                                  & ec off Cristess þeowwess,
                                
                                  & forr to reȝȝsenn Crisstenndom,
                                  Line 5320 
                                
                                  Full bliþelike swulltenn.
                                
                                  & te birrþ wi˘tenn sikerrliȝ,
                                
                                  Forr Goddspellboc itt kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  Þatt whase, forr þe lufe off Crist
                                
                                  & ec off Cristess þeowwess,
                                  Line 5325 
                                
                                  Gaþ forþ to swelltenn bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Forr Crisstenndom to reȝȝsenn,
                                
                                  Þe maste lufe he shæweþþ þær
                                
                                  Þatt aniȝ mann maȝȝ shæwenn;
                                
                                  & forrþi ȝedenn bliþeliȝ
                                  Line 5330 
                                
                                  Þurrh marrtirdom to swelltenn
                                
                                  Off Godess þeowwess miccle ma
                                
                                  Þann aniȝ mann maȝȝ tellenn.
                                
                                  Þiss twafald lufe off Godd & mann,
                                
                                  Þatt uss birrþ alle shæwenn,
                                  Line 5335 
                                
                                  I word, i werrc, uss awwnedd wass
                                
                                  Wel þurrh þa tweȝȝenn hunndredd,
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn þurrh þe þridde staff
                                
                                  Off Cristess name tacnedd.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu mahht te lufe off Godd
                                  Line 5340 
                                
                                  & ec off mann rihht fillenn,
                                
                                  Þa shallt tu þurrh þe name off Crist
                                
                                  Ben borrȝhenn att tin ende.

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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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