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

                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt tu willt tælenn me,
                                
                                  Þe birrþ ec hire tælenn.
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                                  Þuss mihhte ȝho full modiȝliȝ
                                
                                  Off hire sinne ȝellpenn,
                                
                                  & tatt tatt ȝho forrhoredd wass
                                
                                  Þurrh ful forrleȝerrnesse;
                                
                                  Þuss mihhte ȝho bitellen wel
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                                  & werenn þurrh þatt bisne,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt te laffdiȝ bære child,
                                
                                  & weddedd nohht ne wære.
                                
                                  & ȝho wass ec—þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  Forrþi wiþþ weppmann weddedd,
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                                  Wiþþ an þatt wass off hire kinn,
                                
                                  & all off hire birde,
                                
                                  Forr þatt te Laferrd Cristess kinn
                                
                                  Onn eorþe — o moderr hallfe
                                
                                  Bi weppmann shollde reccnedd ben
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                                  Uppwarrd & dunnwarrd baþe.
                                
                                  Forr i þatt time, & i þatt land
                                
                                  Þatt Crist was borenn inne,
                                
                                  Ne talde þeȝȝ nohht teȝȝre kinn
                                
                                  Uppwarrd ne dunnwarrd nowwþerr
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                                  Bi wimmenn, acc þeȝȝ taldenn aȝȝ
                                
                                  Bi weppmenn, alls itt ȝede;
                                
                                  & all forrþi wass Cristess kinn
                                
                                  Uppwarrd & dunnwarrd baþe
                                
                                  Bi Josæp reccnedd, & nohht bi
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                                  Þe laffdiȝ Sannte Marȝe.
                                
                                  & full wel mihhte Cristess kinn
                                
                                  Bi Josæp wurrþenn reccnedd,

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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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