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

                                
                                  & swa wass þatt la ful iwiss
                                
                                  All affterr Godess wille,
                                
                                  Þatt Sannt Johan wass streonedd ta
                                
                                  Þurrh faderr & þurrh moderr,
                                
                                  Þatt tíme þatt teȝȝ wærenn ba
                                  Line 745 
                                
                                  Winntrĕde menn & alde.
                                
                                  & tekenn þatt tatt ȝho wass ald
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t wass ȝho swa bifundenn,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho, swa summ itt wollde Godd,
                                
                                  Ne mihhte næ¯fræ¯r tæmenn;
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                                  & forrþi wass itt ful iwiss
                                
                                  All þurrh Drihhtiness wille,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ swa late mihhtenn child
                                
                                  I mikell elde streonenn.
                                
                                   [col 10] & tatt tiss illke Sannt Johan,
                                  Line 755 
                                
                                  Þatt wass swa lăte streonedd,
                                
                                  Wass filledd off þe Frofre Gast
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t inn hiss moderr wambe,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspellwrihhte seȝȝþ
                                
                                  Þatt þwerrt u¯¯t nohht ne leȝheþþ,
                                  Line 760 
                                
                                  Þatt sellþe ȝaff himm Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  Affterr hiss aȝhenn wille;
                                
                                  & forrþi wass itt mikell rihht
                                
                                  Þatt he Johan wass nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Þatt tacneþþ all þatt þing þatt iss
                                  Line 765 
                                
                                  All affterr Godess wille.
                                
                                  & tatt he siþþenn þurrh hiss spell,
                                
                                  & þurrh hiss hallȝhe bisne,

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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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