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

                                
                                  Þatt mahht tatt Godd ne ȝaff me nohht,
                                
                                  Ne me nohht ne bilimmpeþþ,
                                
                                  Þatt I ne be þurrh Godess dom
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                                  Wel wurrþi to forrlesenn
                                
                                  All þatt wurrþshipe, & all þatt mahht,
                                
                                  & all þatt ædiȝnesse,
                                
                                  Þatt Crist sellf hafeþþ ȝifenn me
                                
                                  All þurrh hiss æddmodnesse,
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                                  & nohht þurrh þatt icc wass itt wurrþ,
                                
                                  Ne þatt icc haffde itt addledd.
                                
                                  Crist iss bridgume, & he shall her
                                
                                  Himm chesenn brid onn erþe,
                                
                                  Off all mannkinn an haliȝ follc,
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                                  Þatt shall hiss wille follȝhenn.
                                
                                  & whase iss þiss bridgumess frend,
                                
                                  & lufeþþ himm wiþþ herrte,
                                
                                  & follȝheþþ all hiss bodeword,
                                
                                  & forþeþþ all hiss wille,
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                                   [col 398] Swa — þatt himm þiss bridgume onnfo
                                
                                  To lufenn & to nehȝhenn,
                                
                                  To shæwenn himm hiss dærne run,
                                
                                  Hiss domess diȝhellnesse,
                                
                                  Þurrh witt & skill, & þurrh innsihht
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                                  Off Haliȝ Gastess lare,
                                
                                  Þurrh whatt he stanndeþþ wel & rihht
                                
                                  I stall off soþ mecnesse,
                                
                                  & nohht ne falleþþ hefiȝ fall
                                
                                  Off modiȝnessess lawe,

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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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