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

                                
                                  & tweȝȝenn hunndredd tacnenn uss
                                
                                  Þa tweȝȝenn hallȝhe lífess,
                                
                                  Þatt Cristess hird i Crisstenndom
                                
                                  Wiþþ Cristess hellpe follȝheþþ·
                                  Line 6095 
                                
                                  & ȝuw birrþ wi˘tenn, þatt tatt an
                                
                                  Off þise tweȝȝenn lifess
                                
                                  Bilimmpeþþ to þatt hallȝhe swinnc,
                                
                                  Þatt follȝheþþ Godess wille,
                                
                                  To swinnkenn affterr mete & claþ
                                  Line 6100 
                                
                                  Wiþþ soþ unnshaþinesse,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tin swinnc be clene swinnc
                                
                                  & att rihht time swunnkenn,
                                
                                  & aȝȝ att hof, & aȝȝ wiþþ skill,
                                
                                  Swa þatt itt nohht ne wraþþe,
                                  Line 6105 
                                
                                  Ne weorde nan lifisshe mann
                                
                                  Affterr þatt tu cannst lokenn.
                                
                                  Þuss mihht tu swinnkenn haliȝ swinnc
                                
                                  & swinnkenn Godd tocweme,
                                
                                  & tuss þu mihht te weorelldþing
                                  Line 6110 
                                
                                  Wiþþ Godess lefe winnenn,
                                
                                  & sone summ itt wunnenn iss,
                                
                                  Þe¯¯t birrþ wislike nittenn
                                
                                  Uppo þe sellfenn, & o þa
                                
                                  Þatt littnenn to þin fode,
                                  Line 6115 
                                
                                   [col 151] Wiþþ mett & mæþ i mete & drinnch,
                                
                                  & ec inn ȝure claþess.
                                
                                  Þe birrþ þin rihhte swinnkess winn
                                
                                  Upponn ȝuw alle nittenn,

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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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