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

                                
                                  & ec þiss illke Goddspell seȝȝþ,
                                  Line 365 
                                
                                  Swa summ ȝe littlær herrdenn,
                                
                                  Þatt Zacaríe, Godess preost,
                                
                                  & ȝho þatt wass hiss macche
                                
                                  Wærenn rihhtwise & gode menn
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess eȝhne.
                                  Line 370 
                                
                                  & ȝuw maȝȝ ben þiss illke word
                                
                                  God lare hu ȝuw birrþ libbenn.
                                
                                   [col 6] He seȝȝde þatt teȝȝ wærenn ba
                                
                                  Biforenn Godd rihhtwise.
                                
                                  & tatt wass alls he seȝȝde þuss
                                  Line 375 
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche,
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ baþe samenn cwemmdenn Godd
                                
                                  Þurrh heore rihhtwisnesse.
                                
                                  & swa ne don nohht alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn rihhtwisnesse,
                                  Line 380 
                                
                                  Ne cwemenn þeȝȝ nohht alle Godd
                                
                                  Wiþþ heore rihhtwisnesse.
                                
                                  Forr mann maȝȝ findenn i þiss lif
                                
                                  Bitwenenn uss inoȝhe
                                
                                  Þatt ledenn hemm swa dærneliȝ
                                  Line 385 
                                
                                  Biforenn menness eȝhne,
                                
                                  Þatt mann hemm hallt forr góde menn
                                
                                  & forr full wel rihhtwise,
                                
                                  & sinndenn þohh biforenn Godd
                                
                                  Unngode & unnrihhtwise;
                                  Line 390 
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt teȝȝ forr idell ȝellp
                                
                                  & all forr menness 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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