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

                                
                                  Forrþi þatt hemm þurrh þatt rihht hallf
                                
                                  Shall ben full wel bitacnedd,
                                
                                  Þatt hemm beþ ȝarrkedd þurrh Drihhtin
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                                  To brukenn eche blisse;·
                                
                                  & son se Zacariȝe sahh
                                
                                  Þatt enngless brihhte leome,
                                
                                  He warrþ forrfæredd & forrdredd,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ·
                                  Line 660 
                                
                                  & Godess enngell toc himm þær
                                
                                  To beldenn & to frofrenn.
                                
                                  Forr ure wrecche kinde iss swillc
                                
                                  Þatt itt maȝȝ ben forrfæredd,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt itt ohht færlike seþ
                                  Line 665 
                                
                                  Þe wli˘te off ennglekinde.
                                
                                  & Godess enngell iss full meoc,
                                
                                  & milde, & soffte, & bliþe,
                                
                                  To beldenn & to frofrenn þe,
                                
                                  Ȝiff he þe seþ forrgloppnedd.
                                  Line 670 
                                
                                  Acc deofell iss, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Off grimme & niþfull herrte;
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff he seþ þatt mann iss ohht
                                
                                  Forrfæredd off hiss sihhþe,
                                
                                  He wi˘le himm færenn, ȝiff he maȝȝ,
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                                  & skerrenn máre & máre.
                                
                                  Acc whas itt iss þatt wæpnedd iss
                                
                                  Wiþþ fulle trowwþe o Criste,
                                
                                  Þohh þatt he se þe laþe gast,
                                
                                  Niss he rihht nohht forrfæredd.
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                                  Þatt Godess enngell Gabriæl
                                
                                  Till Zacaríȝe seȝȝde,

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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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