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

                                
                                  Þatt Sannte Marȝe seȝȝde þuss
                                  Line 2265 
                                
                                  Till Gabriæl hehenngell,
                                
                                  Hu maȝȝ þiss dede wurrþenn don,
                                
                                  Hu maȝȝ icc ben wiþþ childe
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn streon o faderr hallf,
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn iwhillc macche?
                                  Line 2270 
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝde ȝho þurrh mikell witt,
                                
                                  Forr þatt nass næfrær wurrþenn,
                                
                                  Þatt aniȝ wimmann bære child
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn weress mæne.
                                
                                  & ȝho wass turrnedd swa till Godd
                                  Line 2275 
                                
                                  Wiþþ bodiȝ & wiþþ sawle,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho þurrh macche nollde nohht
                                
                                   [col 62] Maȝȝþhadess læn forrlesenn;
                                
                                  & forrþi wollde ȝho ben wis
                                
                                  Off þatt þurrh Godess enngell,
                                  Line 2280 
                                
                                  Whillc gate ȝho wiþþ childe ben
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn were shollde.
                                
                                  & witt tu wel þatt nass næfrær,
                                
                                  Biforenn Sannte Marȝe,
                                
                                  Nan wimmann þatt forr lufe off Godd
                                  Line 2285 
                                
                                  I maȝȝþhad wollde libbenn,
                                
                                  & forrþi wass ȝho wurrþ full wel
                                
                                  U¯¯tnumennliȝ to wurrþenn
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin blettcedd, & to ben
                                
                                  Allwældennd Godess moderr.
                                  Line 2290 
                                
                                  & forr þatt ȝho wisliȝ bigann
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn Godess enngell,

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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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