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

                                
                                  Þatt ta bi name nemmnedd wass
                                
                                  Abyuþþ oþþr Abyas.
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  Unnderr all þalde laȝhess fresst
                                
                                  Wærenn alle þe prestess
                                
                                  Off tweȝȝenn prestess, & tatt an
                                
                                  Off þa tweȝȝenn wass nemmnedd
                                
                                  Eleazar, & Ytamar
                                  Line 485 
                                
                                  Wass he þatt oþerr nemmnedd.
                                
                                  & ta twa prestess wærenn A|
                                
                                  -aroness suness baþe.
                                
                                  & talde laȝhess presteflocc
                                
                                  Comm all off þa twa prestess;
                                  Line 490 
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin haffde þanne sett,
                                
                                  Þatt nan ne shollde wurrþenn
                                
                                  Þa sett to wurrþenn prest, butt iff
                                
                                  He prestess sune wære.
                                
                                  & alle þa prestess þatt off
                                  Line 495 
                                
                                  Þa tweȝȝenn prestess comenn,
                                
                                  Shifftedenn hemm bitwenenn þa
                                
                                  Wiþþ lott, whillc shollde serrfenn
                                
                                  Allmahhtiȝ Godd att allterr firrst,
                                
                                  Whillc siþþenn i þe temmple.
                                  Line 500 
                                
                                  & Daviþþ king hemm haffde sett
                                
                                  I lotess fowwre & twenntiȝ,
                                
                                  Þatt illc an shollde witenn wel
                                
                                  Whillc lott himm shollde reȝȝsenn,
                                
                                  To cumenn inntill Ȝerrsalæm,
                                  Line 505 
                                
                                  To serrvenn i þe temmple.
                                
                                  Þær wærenn fowwre & twenntiȝ menn
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn hæfedd prestess,

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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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