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

                                
                                  Forr þatt iss Godess bodeword,
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff þu willt itt follȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þatt heore daȝȝwhammlike swinnc
                                
                                  Beo daȝȝwhammlike hemm goldenn.
                                
                                  & hemm birrþ, ȝiff þatt hemm iss laþ
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                                  Full hefiȝliȝ to gilltenn,
                                
                                  Beon ar & lăte o ȝunnkerr weorrc
                                
                                  & ȝeorrnfull aȝȝ þæronne;
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff þeȝȝ wirrkenn ȝunnkerr weorrc
                                
                                  Forrwurrþennlike & ille,
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                                  Þa gilltenn þeȝȝ full hefiȝliȝ
                                
                                  Ȝæn Godd & ȝæn ȝunnc baþe.
                                
                                  Ne birrþ þe shendenn nani mann
                                
                                  Ne weordenn þine þannkess,
                                
                                  & tohh, ȝiff þatt tu gilltesst ohht
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                                  Wiþþ aniȝ mann o life,
                                
                                  Þe birrþ itt betenn bliþeliȝ,
                                
                                  & wurrþenn himm wiþþ bote.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt iss þatt aniȝ mann
                                
                                  Þe shendeþþ oþerr werdeþþ,
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                                  Þe birrþ himm biddenn don þe rihht
                                
                                  & laȝhe þær onnȝæness,
                                
                                  & ȝiff he doþ þe laȝhe & rihht,
                                
                                  Þa wurrþ he þær þin broþerr,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt iss wiþþ herrte don,
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                                  Ȝiff eȝȝþerr lufeþþ oþerr.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt he þurrh orrȝhellmod
                                
                                  Forrhoȝheþþ þe to wurrþenn,
                                
                                   [col 154] & nile nowwþerr don þe rihht
                                
                                  Forr lufe ne forr eȝȝe,

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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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