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

                                
                                  Hu ȝho wiþþ childe shollde ben
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn weress mæne,
                                
                                  He toc forrþrihht all opennliȝ
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                                  To shæwenn hu ȝho shollde,
                                
                                  Þurrh Godess wille, wurrþenn ske¯¯t
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  Swa þatt ȝho þohh maȝȝþhadess læn
                                
                                  Ne shollde nohht forrlesenn.
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                                  Annd tatt ȝho shollde þess te bett
                                
                                  Wiþþ fulle trowwþe lefenn,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wel mihhte berenn child
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn weress mæne,
                                
                                  Þurrh Allmahhtiȝ Drihhtiness mahht,
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                                  Þatt forþeþþ all hiss wille,
                                
                                  He seȝȝde þatt Elysabæþ
                                
                                  Wass wurrþenn þa wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  Þatt ta wass swiþe winntredd wif,
                                
                                  & kindelæs to tæmenn,
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                                  & ec þatt wif þatt haffde ben
                                
                                  Aȝȝ childlæs till þatt time,
                                
                                  & tanne shollde berenn child
                                
                                  Onnȝæn wimmaness kinde.
                                
                                  & tatt wass seȝȝd alls iff he þuss
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                                  All opennlike seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Ne wen þu nohht tatt Godd ne maȝȝ
                                
                                  All don þatt iss hiss wille,
                                
                                  All swa maȝȝ Godd don þe full well
                                
                                  To childenn ȝæness kinde,
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                                  All all swa summ Elysabæþ
                                
                                  Shall nu ȝæn kinde childenn.

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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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