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

                                
                                  Her endenn þuss Goddspelless twa
                                
                                  & uss birrþ hemm þurrhsekenn,
                                
                                  To lokenn whatt teȝȝ lærenn uss
                                  Line 1815 
                                
                                  Off ure sawle nede.
                                
                                  Me mi˘neþþ þatt icc seȝȝde ȝuw
                                
                                  Nu littlær o þiss lare,
                                
                                  Þatt Godess enngell Gabriæl
                                
                                  Wass sennd till Zakariȝe,
                                  Line 1820 
                                
                                  To kiþenn himm þatt he Johan
                                
                                  Bapptisste shollde streonenn.
                                
                                  & ec icc seȝȝde ȝuw þatt he
                                
                                  Wass sennd till Sannte Marȝe,
                                
                                  To kiþenn þatt ȝho shollde ben
                                  Line 1825 
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast wiþþ childe.
                                
                                  Whær summ we findenn o þe boc
                                
                                  Enngell bi name nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Wel birrþ uss lokenn þær whatt uss
                                
                                  Þatt name maȝȝ bitacnenn;
                                  Line 1830 
                                
                                  Forr niss himm næfre name sett
                                
                                  Butt iff itt shule tacnenn,
                                
                                  Whatt weorrc himm iss þurrh Drihhtin sett
                                
                                  To forþenn her onn eorþe.
                                
                                  Forr Michaæl bitacneþþ uss,
                                  Line 1835 
                                
                                  Affterr þatt icc maȝȝ seggenn,
                                
                                  Whillc iss wiþþ Godd all efennlic
                                
                                  Onn alle kinne mahhte,
                                
                                  Niss nani þing þatt muȝhe ben
                                
                                  Wiþþ Godd off efenn mahhte;
                                  Line 1840 
                                
                                  Þatt name wass himm sett þurrh Godd,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he shollde fihhtenn

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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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