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

                                
                                  Þatt newe king, þatt borenn wass
                                
                                  Amang Judisskenn þeode.
                                
                                  & sone anan þeȝȝ forenn forþ
                                  Line 3460 
                                
                                  Illc an wiþþ þrinne lakess,
                                
                                  Forr þatt ta lakess sholldenn uss
                                
                                  Well mikell god bitacnenn.
                                
                                  & teȝȝre steorrne wass wiþþ hemm
                                
                                  To ledenn hemm þe weȝȝe,
                                  Line 3465 
                                
                                  Forr aȝȝ itt flæ¯¯t upp i þe lifft
                                
                                  Biforenn hemm a litell,
                                
                                  To tæchenn hemm þatt weȝȝe rihht
                                
                                  Þatt ledde hemm towarrd Criste.
                                
                                  Acc fra þatt Kalldewisshe land,
                                  Line 3470 
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ þa comenn offe,
                                
                                  Wass mikell weȝȝe till þatt land
                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass borenn inne;
                                
                                  & forrþi wass hemm ned to don
                                
                                  God þraȝhe to þatt weȝȝe,
                                  Line 3475 
                                
                                  Forr rihht onn hiss þrittende daȝȝ
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ comenn till þatt chesstre,
                                
                                  Þær ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Wass borenn her to manne;
                                
                                  Þuss wass þe Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  Line 3480 
                                
                                  Awwnedd o twinne wise
                                
                                  Forrþrihht anan, i þatt tatt he
                                
                                  Wass borenn her to manne,
                                
                                  Forr þatt menn sholldenn cnawenn himm
                                
                                  & lofenn himm & wurrþenn,
                                  Line 3485 
                                
                                  & cumenn till þe Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & till þe rihhte læfe,

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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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