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

                                
                                  Icc hafe fesstnedd i min þohht
                                
                                  To libbenn i clænnesse,
                                
                                  Swa þatt icc, — ȝiff þatt itt maȝȝ ben,
                                
                                  Nan macche nile cnawenn;
                                
                                  & na¯¯t I nohht hu þatt maȝȝ ben,
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                                  Þatt I maȝȝ ben wiþþ childe
                                
                                  I min maȝȝþhad, i clene bedd,
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn macchess mæne;
                                
                                  & bliþelike I wollde sen
                                
                                  & witenn þurrh þe sellfenn,
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                                  Whatt gate þiss maȝȝ ben þatt tu
                                
                                  O Godess hallfe kiþesst.
                                
                                  & Godess enngell Gabriæl
                                
                                  Ȝaff hire anndswere & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Þu best wiþþ childe off Haliȝ Gast,
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                                  & best tohh maȝȝdenn clene.
                                
                                  & ȝho toc wel wiþþ Godess word
                                
                                  To wurrþenn swa wiþþ childe,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho þohhwheþþre shollde ben
                                
                                  Maȝȝdenn all þwerrt u¯¯t clene.
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                                  & ȝho wharrþ þa wiþþ childe swa
                                
                                  All affterr Godess wille;
                                
                                  & nisste itt nan lifisshe mann
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wass swa wiþþ childe;
                                
                                  Forr ȝho ne seȝȝde itt naniȝ mann,
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                                  Ne Godess enngell nowwþerr;
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde wurrþenn wel
                                
                                  Forrholenn wiþþ þe defell,
                                
                                  Þatt Godess sune shollde ben
                                
                                  Her borenn o þatt wise.

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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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