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

                                
                                  He sette a steorrne upp o þe lifft
                                  Line 3430 
                                
                                  Full brad, & brihht, & shene,
                                
                                  Onn æst hallf off þiss middellærd,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  Amang þatt follc þatt cann innsihht
                                
                                  Off maniȝ þing þurrh steorrness,
                                  Line 3435 
                                
                                  Amang þe Calldeowisshe þeod
                                
                                  Þatt cann innsihht o steorrness.
                                
                                  & tatt þeod wass hæþene þeod
                                
                                  Þatt Crist ȝaff þa swillc takenn;
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt he þeȝȝm wollde þa
                                  Line 3440 
                                
                                  To rihhte læfe wendenn.
                                
                                  & son se þeȝȝ þatt steorrneleom
                                
                                  Þær sæȝhenn upp o liffte,
                                
                                  Þreo kingess off þatt illke land
                                
                                  Full wel itt unnderrstodenn,
                                  Line 3445 
                                
                                  & wisstenn witerrliȝ þærþurrh
                                
                                  Þatt swillc new king wass awwnedd,
                                
                                  Þatt wass soþ Godd & soþ mann ec,
                                
                                  An had off twinne kinde.
                                
                                  All þiss þeȝȝ unnderrstodenn wel
                                  Line 3450 
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt Godd hemm úþe,
                                
                                   [col 87] & cómenn samenn alle þreo,
                                
                                  & settenn hemm bitwenenn,
                                
                                  Þatt illc an shollde þrinne lac
                                
                                  Habbenn wiþþ him o lade,
                                  Line 3455 
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ sholldenn farenn forþ
                                
                                  To leȝȝtenn & to sekenn

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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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