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

                                
                                  & ȝiff þu nimesst mikell gom
                                
                                  Till Abrahamess dede,
                                  Line 14695 
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu takesst bisne att himm,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn herrsummnesse,
                                
                                   [col 341] To wurrþenn herrsumm till Drihhtin,
                                
                                  To þewwtenn himm tocweme,
                                
                                  To lakenn himm wiþþ þatt tatt himm
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                                  Iss lefesst off þin ahhte,
                                
                                  To wurrþenn herrsumm to þin prest
                                
                                  & till þin tuness laferrd,
                                
                                  Till alle þa þatt hafenn þe
                                
                                  To ȝemenn & to sterenn,
                                  Line 14705 
                                
                                  To ben herrsumm till alle þa
                                
                                  Inn alle gode þinge,
                                
                                  Forr niss nan herrsummnesse sett
                                
                                  To forþenn ifell dede,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu follȝhesst tuss þe sloþ
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                                  Off Abrahamess bisne,
                                
                                  Þa takesst tu, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe þridde time
                                
                                  Stafflike drinnch god to þin lif
                                
                                  & to þin sawle baþe,
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                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe mikell gengenn her
                                
                                  To winnenn Cristess are,
                                
                                  Alls iff þu drunnke waterrdrinnch
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe þridde fe¯¯tless
                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe slekkenn wel þin þirrst,
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                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt te þirrsteþþ·

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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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