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

                                
                                   [col 132] Off all þatt æfre iss owwþerr ned
                                
                                  To lif & ec to sawle.
                                
                                  Þe feorþe ȝife off Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Iss strenncþe ȝæn þe deofell;
                                
                                  Strenncþe to fihhtenn stallwurrliȝ
                                  Line 5520 
                                
                                  Onnȝæn þe flæshess lusstess;
                                
                                  Strenncþe þatt ȝifeþþ lufe & lusst
                                
                                  Þe bodiȝ forr to pinenn
                                
                                  Wiþþ swinnc, wiþþ hunngerr, & wiþþ þrisst,
                                
                                  Wiþþ chele i wicke claþess,
                                  Line 5525 
                                
                                  Wiþþ cnelinng, & wiþþ bedesang,
                                
                                  Wiþþ swinginng, & wiþþ wecche;
                                
                                  Strenncþe to þolenn rihht wiþþ skill
                                
                                  Illc seollþe & illc unnseollþe,
                                
                                  & aȝȝ to þannkenn innwarrdliȝ
                                  Line 5530 
                                
                                  Drihhtin all þatt he senndeþþ;
                                
                                  Þiss strenncþe ȝifeþþ Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Þa menn þatt wel himm cwemenn.
                                
                                  Þe fifte ȝife iss shæd & skill
                                
                                  I weorelldlike þingess,
                                  Line 5535 
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt mann unnderrstanndeþþ wel
                                
                                  & seoþ wiþþ heorrtess eȝhe
                                
                                  All whatt iss rihht, & whatt iss wo
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess eȝhne,
                                
                                  & whatt bilimmpeþþ to þe lif,
                                  Line 5540 
                                
                                  & whatt gaþ to þe sawle;
                                
                                  & all hu mann birrþ weorelldþing
                                
                                  Nittenn & tohh forrwerrpenn;

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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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