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

                                  
                                    Nu wile icc here shæwenn ȝuw
                                  
                                    Off ure laffdiȝ Marȝe,
                                    Line 3265 
                                  
                                    Off hu ȝho barr þe Laferrd Crist
                                  
                                    Att hire rihhte time,
                                  
                                    Swa þatt ȝho þohh þær affterr wass
                                  
                                    A maȝȝdenn þweorrt u¯¯t clene;·

SECUNDUM LUCAM VII.

Exiit edictum.

                                    
                                      An Romanisshe Kaserrking
                                      Line 3270 
                                    
                                      Wass Augusstuss ȝehatenn,
                                    
                                      & he wass wurrþenn Kaserrking
                                    
                                      Off all mannkinn onn eorþe,
                                    
                                      & he gann þennkenn off himm sellf,
                                    
                                      & off hiss miccle riche.
                                      Line 3275 
                                    
                                      & he bigann to þennkenn þa,
                                    
                                      Swa sum þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                    
                                      Off þatt he wollde witenn wel
                                    
                                      Hu mikell fehh himm come,
                                    
                                      Ȝiff himm off all hiss kinedom
                                      Line 3280 
                                    
                                       [col 84] Illc mann an peninng ȝæfe.
                                    
                                      & he badd settenn upp o writt
                                    
                                      All mannkinn, forr to lokenn
                                    
                                      Hu mikell fehh he mihhte swa
                                    
                                      Off all þe weorelld sammnenn,

                                      Line 3285

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Title: The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.
Canvas: Page 112
Publication: Oxford :: At the Clarendon Press,; 1878.

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