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

                                  
                                    & Marȝe wass o faderr hallf
                                  
                                    Wiþþutenn streon wiþþ childe;
                                  
                                    & ec Elysabæþess child
                                  
                                    Wass mann & nohht na mare,
                                  
                                    & Marȝess child wass mann & Godd
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                                    An had i twinne kinde;
                                  
                                    & forrþi wass Elysabæþ
                                  
                                    Onn alle wise lahre,
                                  
                                    Þann ure laffdiȝ Marȝe wass,
                                  
                                    & wel itt birrþ uss trowwenn,
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                                    Forr ȝho wass heȝhesst i þiss lif
                                  
                                    Off all mannkinn onn eorþe,
                                  
                                    & ȝho iss nu & æfre beoþ
                                  
                                    Heȝhesst off alle shaffte.

SECUNDUM LUCAM III.

Exurgens Maria abiit in montana cum festinatione.

                                    
                                      Itt seȝȝþ þatt Sannte Marȝe fór
                                      Line 2685 
                                    
                                      Wiþþ mikell hih þatt weȝȝe,
                                    
                                      & tatt wass swa þurh hire don
                                    
                                      Forr uss to ȝifenn bisne,
                                    
                                      Þatt uss birrþ aȝȝ wiþþ mikell hih,
                                    
                                      Wiþþ mikell ȝeorrnfullnesse,
                                      Line 2690 
                                    
                                      Follȝhenn & fillenn all þatt gaþ
                                    
                                      Till ure sawle bote;
                                    
                                      Forr nan ne maȝȝ nohht wi˘tenn her
                                    
                                      Hu lannge mann maȝȝ libbenn,
                                    
                                      To stanndenn inn to cwemenn Crist
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                                      To winnenn Cristess are.

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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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