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

                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu nillt nohht wannsenn itt
                                
                                  Forr naness manness nede,
                                
                                  & addlesst þurrh þin hord att Godd
                                  Line 12240 
                                
                                  To dreȝhenn hellepine,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tu¯¯t hafesst sammnedd swa
                                
                                  & hidd fra manne nede.
                                
                                  Acc ȝiff þu wære rædiȝ till
                                
                                  To nittenn itt att nede
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                                  Onn alle þa þatt haffdenn ned
                                
                                  & þarrfe to þin hellpe,
                                
                                  Þa mihhtesst tu swa þurrh þin hord
                                
                                  Þe winnenn heoffness blisse.
                                
                                  & lifess modiȝnesse iss all
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                                  Off eorþliȝ þingess seollþe,
                                
                                  Off laferrddom, off ahhtess sped,
                                
                                  Off hæle, off faȝȝerrnesse,
                                
                                  Off strenncþe, off eorþliȝ witt & skill,
                                
                                  Off eorþliȝ crafftess seollþe.
                                  Line 12255 
                                
                                  & forrþi seȝȝde swiþe soþ
                                
                                  Lucas þe Goddspellwrihhte,
                                
                                  Þatt deofell wennde aweȝȝ fra Crist
                                
                                  Son summ he filledd haffde
                                
                                  All þatt fandinnge towarrd Crist
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                                  Þatt æfre cuþe he findenn,
                                
                                  Forr all þe deofless fandinng iss
                                
                                  O þise þrinne wise,
                                
                                  Þurrh gluterrnessess laþe lasst,
                                
                                  & ec þurrh grediȝnesse,
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                                  & þurrh þatt laþe modiȝleȝȝc
                                
                                  Þatt comm all off himm sellfenn.

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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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