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

                                
                                  All þatt hird off Eleazar
                                
                                  Wass strenedd her to manne;
                                  Line 570 
                                
                                  & tatt, forr þatt Eleazar
                                
                                  Sextene suness haffde,
                                
                                  & off illc an serlepess wass
                                
                                  An hird to manne strenedd.
                                
                                  & tatt hird tatt todæledd wass
                                  Line 575 
                                
                                  Onn hirdess twiȝȝess fowwre,
                                
                                  All þatt hird wass þurrh Ytamar
                                
                                  To manne onn erþe strenedd;
                                
                                  & tatt, forrþi þatt Ytamar
                                
                                  Rihht ehhte suness haffde,
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  & off illc an serlepess wass
                                
                                  An hird to manne strenedd;
                                
                                  & ta sextene þatt Ele|azar her haffde strenedd,
                                
                                  Þa hirdess þatt, witt tu full wel,
                                  Line 585 
                                
                                  Haffdenn an hird onn hæfedd,
                                
                                  Haffdenn an hæfedd hird tatt wass
                                
                                  Abufenn alle þoþre,
                                
                                  Alls iff itt wære laferrdflocc
                                
                                  Offr alle þoþre flockess.
                                  Line 590 
                                
                                  & tatt tatt swa wass hæfedd hird,
                                
                                  Þatt hird wass i þatt time
                                
                                  Nemmnedd Eleazaress hus,
                                
                                  Eleazaress hewenn.
                                
                                  & all se itt fór onn oþerr hallf
                                  Line 595 
                                
                                  Inn Ytamaress chilldre.
                                
                                  Forr Ytamaress hird wass ec
                                
                                  Þatt illke wise dæledd

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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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