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

                                
                                  Witt tu þatt Drihhtin hafeþþ herrd
                                
                                  & ȝatedd tine beness,
                                
                                  & tatt tin wif Elysabæþ
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                                  Þe shall an sune childenn,
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝde he ful iwiss forrþi
                                
                                  Þatt ta wass cumenn tíme
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin wollde lesenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Hiss follc off deofless walde,
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                                  Þatt Zacariass Godess preost,
                                
                                  & oþre gode preostess,
                                
                                  & maniȝ haliȝ læwedd mann
                                
                                  O Drihhtin haffde bonedd.
                                
                                  Forr alle þa þatt cwemmdenn Godd
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                                  Biforenn Cristess come,
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ alle bædenn innwarrdliȝ
                                
                                  Wiþþ bedess & wiþþ dedess,
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin shollde lesenn hemm
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe deofless walde.
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                                   [col 9] & ta wass cumenn time to
                                
                                  Þatt Godd hemm wollde lesenn.
                                
                                  & forrþi seȝȝde Gabriæl,
                                
                                  Þu shallt an sune streonenn;
                                
                                  Forr þatt hiss sune shollde ben
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                                  Biginning off þatt blisse.
                                
                                  Forr att te come off Sannt Johan
                                
                                  Bigann all ure blisse,
                                
                                  All þatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Comm till mannkinn onn eorþe,

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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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