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

                                
                                  Forr naffde he naness ki˘ness ned
                                
                                  Himm sellf to wurrþenn fullhtnedd,
                                
                                  Acc forrþi þatt he wollde swa
                                
                                  Uss shæwenn soþ meocnesse,
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                                  & fillenn rihhtwisnesse swa
                                
                                  Þurrh soþ meocnessess bisne;
                                
                                  Forr Latin boc uss seȝȝþ þatt soþ
                                
                                  Meocnesse iss þrinne kinness.
                                
                                  An kinness iss þatt tu beo meoc
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                                  & herrsumm till þin elldre,
                                
                                  & tatt tu wiþþ þin efenninng
                                
                                  Þe metelike lede,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu þe ne draȝhe nohht
                                
                                  Abufenn himm wiþþ woȝhe.
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                                  & ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu þe willt
                                
                                  Þurrh rihhtwisnesse berrȝhenn,
                                
                                  Þa birrþ þe þiss meocnessess sloþ
                                
                                  Att tallre læste follȝhenn;
                                
                                  Forr þu ne mahht nohht rihhtwis beon
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                                  Wiþþutenn þiss meocnesse,
                                
                                  Ne þu ne mahht nohht borrȝhenn beon
                                
                                   [col 268] Wiþþutenn rihhtwisnesse.
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t iss an oþerr oferr þiss
                                
                                  Meocnesse miccle mare,
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                                  Þatt tu beo meoc to laȝhenn þe
                                
                                  Unnderr þin efennméte,
                                
                                  & tatt tu þe ne draȝhe nohht
                                
                                  Abufenn þine lahȝhre.

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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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