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

                                
                                  Att ænne time whanne hiss lott
                                
                                  Wass cumenn upp to þeowwtenn,
                                
                                  He toc hiss reclefatt onn hand,
                                  Line 135 
                                
                                  & ȝede innto þe temmple.
                                
                                  All áne shridd wiþþ haliȝ shrud
                                
                                  Ȝede he till Godess allterr,
                                
                                  Forr þær to þeowwtenn Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  O þatt Judisskenn wise;
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                                  & all þe follc þær ute stod
                                
                                  Þatt while onn heore béne.
                                
                                  & Godess enngell comm himm to
                                
                                  O rihht hallf bi þatt allterr,
                                
                                  Þatt hemm wass sett þurrh Godess æ
                                  Line 145 
                                
                                  To þeowwtenn þær wiþþ recless.
                                
                                  & he warrþ drefedd & forrdredd
                                
                                  Off þatt he sahh þatt enngell;
                                
                                  & Godess enngell seȝȝde himm to
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde himm frofrenn;
                                  Line 150 
                                
                                  Ne dred te, Zacaríȝe, nohht,
                                
                                  Noff me, noff mine wordess,
                                
                                  Forr Godd Allwældennd hafeþþ herrd
                                
                                  & ȝatedd tíne beness.
                                
                                  & nu þe shall Elysabæþ
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                                  Þin wif an sune childenn;
                                
                                  & tu shallt nemmnenn himm Johan,
                                
                                  & tu shallt habbenn blisse.
                                
                                  & oþre unnfæwe shulenn ec
                                
                                  Full glade & bliþe wurrþenn,
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                                  Forrþi þatt he shall borenn ben
                                
                                  & cumenn her to manne.

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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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