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

                                
                                  Þatt wollde bettre Drihhtin Godd,
                                
                                  Swa summ soþ boc uss kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  Þann þatt te laffdiȝ wære shennd
                                  Line 1985 
                                
                                  & shamedd her o life,
                                
                                  Swa summ þatt wimmann birrde ben
                                
                                  Þatt all forrleȝenn wære;
                                
                                  & forrþi wass ȝho till Josæp
                                
                                  Wiþþ Godess laȝhe weddedd,
                                  Line 1990 
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho ne wære shamedd her,
                                
                                  Ne shennd off unnclænnesse.
                                
                                  & forrþi wennde wel þe follc,
                                
                                  & swa wennde þe deofell,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wære Josæpess wif
                                  Line 1995 
                                
                                  & off Josæp wiþþ childe;
                                
                                  & swa comm ȝho full wel aweȝȝ,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt ȝho wass weddedd,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho ne shamedd nass, ne shennd,
                                
                                  Ne forr forrleȝenn haldenn.
                                  Line 2000 
                                
                                  & ȝho wass weddedd ec forrþi,
                                
                                  Þatt witt tu wel to soþe,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde unnawwnedd ben
                                
                                  & all unncuþ & dærne
                                
                                  Þe laþe gast, swa þatt he nohht
                                  Line 2005 
                                
                                  Ne shollde itt unnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho þa shollde ben þurrh Godd
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  & tatt ȝho shollde childenn her
                                
                                  Allmahhtiȝ Godd to manne.
                                  Line 2010 
                                
                                  & tatt wass mikell god tatt itt
                                
                                  Unnawwnedd wass þe deofell;

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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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