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

                                
                                  & ec itt iss wurrþlike shridd,
                                  Line 17565 
                                
                                  Þatt wasst tu wel to soþe,
                                
                                  O lifft, o land, o waterrflod,
                                
                                  Wiþþ fele kinne shaffte,
                                
                                  & sawle iss ec wurrþlike shridd
                                
                                  Þurrh Godd inn hire kinde,
                                  Line 17570 
                                
                                  Wiþþ unndæþshildiȝnesse, & ec
                                
                                  Wiþþ witt, & wille, & minde,
                                
                                  & forrþi nemmneþþ Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  Þe sawle hiss onnlicnesse,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ baþe, sawle & Godd
                                  Line 17575 
                                
                                  Sinndenn wiþþutenn ende,
                                
                                  & hafenn minde, & wille, & witt,
                                
                                  Acc nohht onn ane wise,
                                
                                  Forr Godd itt hafeþþ aȝȝ inn himm,
                                
                                  & æfre & æfre itt haffde,
                                  Line 17580 
                                
                                  & sawle onnfoþ att Godess hand
                                
                                  All hire duhhtiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þær þær he shapeþþ sawle off nohht,
                                
                                  All alls himm sellfenn likeþþ;
                                
                                  & forrþi shall þe werelld her
                                  Line 17585 
                                
                                  Bitacnenn mannkinn ane,
                                
                                  Forr baþe fallenn inntill an,
                                
                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd.
                                
                                  Forr eȝȝþerr iss wurrþlike shridd
                                
                                  Acc nohht onn ane wise,
                                  Line 17590 
                                
                                  & tohh iss þeȝȝre baþre shrud
                                
                                  Þurrh Cossmós wel bitacnedd.
                                
                                  & forrþi mahht tu nemmnenn mann
                                
                                  Affterr Grikkishe spæche

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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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