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

                                
                                  & all ȝho leȝȝde þatt o Godd
                                
                                  & onn hiss lefe wille,
                                
                                  Þatt he þæroffe shollde don
                                
                                  All whattse hiss wille wære;
                                
                                  & innwarrdlike badd ȝho Godd
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                                  Hiss hellpe þatt ȝho mihhte
                                
                                  Á libbenn i clene maȝȝþhad,
                                
                                  & inn unnwemmeddnesse.
                                
                                  & ȝho wass hanndfesst an god mann
                                
                                  Þatt Josæp wass ȝehatenn;
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                                  & ȝho bilæf wiþþ hire frend
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t affterr þatt summ whíle.
                                
                                  & i þatt fresst, whil þatt ȝho wass
                                
                                  Wiþþ hire kinn att hame,
                                
                                  Comm Godess enngell onn an daȝȝ
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                                  Till hire inn hire bure;
                                
                                  & Drihhtin hire sennde word
                                
                                  Þurrh Gabriæl hehenngell,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wiþþ childe shollde ben,
                                
                                  & berenn child to manne.
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                                  &, forr þatt ȝho wel haffde þohht
                                
                                  To libbenn i clænnesse,
                                
                                  Ȝho ȝaff hehenngell Gabriæl
                                
                                  Anndswere onnȝæn & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Hu maȝȝ þiss forþedd ben þurrh me
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                                  Þatt nan weppmann ne cnawe?
                                
                                  Whi ȝaff ȝho swillc anndswere onnȝæn,
                                
                                  Þa Godess enngell seȝȝde
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wiþþ childe shollde ben,
                                
                                  & berenn child to manne?

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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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