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

                                
                                  & Godess enngell hemm bigann
                                
                                  To frofrenn & to beldenn,
                                  Line 3345 
                                
                                  & seȝȝde hemm þuss o Godess hallf
                                
                                  Wiþþ swiþe milde spæche;
                                
                                  Ne beo ȝe nohht forrdredde off me,
                                
                                  Acc beo ȝe swiþe bliþe,
                                
                                  Forr icc amm sennd off heoffness ærd
                                  Line 3350 
                                
                                  To kiþenn Godess wille,
                                
                                  To kiþenn ȝuw þatt all follc iss
                                
                                  Nu cumenn mikell blisse,
                                
                                  Forr ȝuw iss borenn nu to daȝȝ
                                
                                  Hælennde off ȝure sinness,
                                  Line 3355 
                                
                                  An wennchell þatt iss Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  Þatt wi˘te ȝe to soþe.
                                
                                  & her onnfasst he borenn iss
                                
                                  I Daviþþ kingess chesstre,
                                
                                  Þatt iss ȝehatenn Beþþleæm,
                                  Line 3360 
                                
                                  I þiss Judisskenn birde.
                                
                                  & her icc wile shæwenn ȝuw
                                
                                  Summ þing to witerr tákenn;
                                
                                  Ȝe shulenn findenn ænne child
                                
                                  I winndeclutess wundenn,
                                  Line 3365 
                                
                                  & itt iss inn a cribbe leȝȝd,
                                
                                  & tær ȝet¯¯ muȝhenn findenn.
                                
                                  & sone anan se þiss wass seȝȝd
                                
                                  Þurrh an off Godess enngless,
                                
                                  A mikell here off enngleþeod
                                  Line 3370 
                                
                                  Wass cumenn u¯¯t off heoffne,
                                
                                  & all þatt hirdeflocc hemm sahh
                                
                                  & herrde whatt teȝȝ sungenn.

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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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