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

                                
                                  & her icc wile wiþþ & wiþþ
                                
                                  Þa seoffne seollþess shæwenn
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn, alls icc hafe seȝȝd,
                                  Line 5630 
                                
                                  Þurrh tale off seoffne tacnedd.
                                
                                  & her icc wile reccnenn hemm
                                
                                  All o þatt illke wise,
                                
                                  All alls hemm sette o Goddspellboc
                                
                                  Maþeow þe Goddspellwrihhte.
                                  Line 5635 
                                
                                  Þe firrste seollþe iss þatt tu beo,
                                
                                  All wiþþ þin aȝhenn wille,
                                
                                  All wrecche & wædle & usell mann,
                                
                                  Forr lufe off eche blisse.
                                
                                  Þiss seollþe shall þe winnenn her
                                  Line 5640 
                                
                                  Heh kinedom inn heoffne,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspellwrihhte seȝȝþ,
                                
                                  Þatt þweorrt u¯¯t nohht ne leȝheþþ·
                                
                                  Þatt oþerr seollþe iss þatt tu beo
                                
                                  œdmod, & soffte, & milde,
                                  Line 5645 
                                
                                  All forr þe soþe lufe off Godd,
                                
                                  All wiþþ þin aȝhenn wille.
                                
                                  Þiss seollþe all heoffness ærdess land
                                
                                  Þe winnenn shall & ahnenn,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspellwrihhte seȝȝþ,
                                  Line 5650 
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu wel itt follȝhesst.
                                
                                  Þe þridde seollþe doþ þe mann
                                
                                  Wepenn wiþþ skill & wanenn
                                
                                  Nohht forr nan li˘re off weorelldþing,
                                
                                  Ne forr eorþlike unnseollþe,
                                  Line 5655 
                                
                                  Acc forr hiss aȝhenn sinne, & ec
                                
                                  Forr oþerr manness sinne;

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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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