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

                                
                                  & tatt forrþi þatt he wass gladd,
                                
                                  Laffdiȝ, forr þatt tu come,
                                
                                  & ec forr þatt he wollde swa
                                
                                  Allmahhtiȝ Drihhtin heȝȝlenn
                                
                                  Þatt nu liþ, alls he wa¯¯t full wel,
                                  Line 2815 
                                
                                  I þin unnwemmedd wambe.
                                
                                  & tatt Elysabæþ spacc þær
                                
                                  Till Sannte Marȝe, & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  & tu full ædiȝ wurrþenn arrt,
                                
                                  Forr þatt tu mihhtesst trowwenn;
                                  Line 2820 
                                
                                  Þatt wass swa summ ȝho seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche,
                                
                                  Þin seollþe iss all unnseȝȝenndlic,
                                
                                   [col 68] Forr þatt tu toc wiþþ trowwþe
                                
                                  Þatt word tatt Godess enngell þe
                                  Line 2825 
                                
                                  O Godess hallfe brohhte;
                                
                                  & bettre arrt tu þann ure preost,
                                
                                  Þatt nohht ne mihhte trowwenn
                                
                                  Þatt word tatt himm þurrh Gabriæl
                                
                                  Wass seȝȝd o Godess hallfe,
                                  Line 2830 
                                
                                  Forr whatt himm wass hiss spæche anan
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin all biræfedd.
                                
                                  & tatt Elysabæþ spacc þær
                                
                                  Till Sannte Marȝe & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Forr all shall filledd ben i þe
                                  Line 2835 
                                
                                  Þatt word tatt Godd te seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Þatt wass swa summ ȝho seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche,

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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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