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

                                
                                  Þær þurrh wass sene þatt he wass
                                
                                  Rihhtwis & milde baþe.
                                  Line 2925 
                                
                                  Rihhtwis he wass, þatt witt tu wel,
                                
                                  O þatt hallf, þatt he nollde
                                
                                  Nohht haldenn wiþþ þatt illke þing
                                
                                  Þatt he nohht off ne wisste;
                                
                                  He sahh þatt ȝho wiþþ childe wass,
                                  Line 2930 
                                
                                   [col 78] & nisste he nohht whæroffe,
                                
                                  & wisste þatt ȝho clene wass
                                
                                  Off alle menn onn eorþe,
                                
                                  & forrþi wollde he fleon þatt þing
                                
                                  Þatt he nohht off ne wisste,
                                  Line 2935 
                                
                                  Swa—þatt he wære gilltelæs
                                
                                  Biforenn Godess eȝhne.
                                
                                  & milde he wass onn oþerr hallf,
                                
                                  I þatt he nollde wreȝenn
                                
                                  Þatt wimmann þatt wass gilltelæs,
                                  Line 2940 
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho ne wære stanedd.
                                
                                  & forr þatt Josæp sohhte raþ
                                
                                  Swa lannge inn hise þohhtess,
                                
                                  Off whatt himm wære bettst to don,
                                
                                  Þatt he ne felle i sinne;
                                  Line 2945 
                                
                                  Forrþi comm himm þatt he wass wurrþ
                                
                                  Þatt Godd himm sennde hiss enngell,
                                
                                  To raþenn himm þe bettste raþ
                                
                                  Off—whatt himm wass to donne.
                                
                                  & tatt me doþ full opennliȝ
                                  Line 2950 
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn,

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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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