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

                                
                                  & heoffne & lifft & land & sæ
                                
                                  Wiþþ Goddcunndnesse filleþþ
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                                  Þatt illke child, tatt tær wass leȝȝd
                                
                                  Inn an full naru cribbe,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde ȝifenn uss
                                
                                  All heoffness rume riche.
                                
                                  & he þatt fedeþþ enngleþeod
                                  Line 3690 
                                
                                  & alle cwike shaffte,
                                
                                  He laȝȝ all, alls hiss wille wass,
                                
                                  Biforenn asse i cribbe,
                                
                                  Swa summ he wære ȝifenn himm
                                
                                  To wurrþenn himm to fode,
                                  Line 3695 
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde brinngenn uss
                                
                                  Upp inntill heoffness blisse,
                                
                                  & ȝifenn uss himm sellfenn þær
                                
                                  Wiþþ enngless eche fode.
                                
                                  Þuss Godess Sune, Allmahhtiȝ Godd,
                                  Line 3700 
                                
                                  Wass wrecche mann onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Forr swa to brinngenn mannkinn onn
                                
                                  To ȝeornenn affterr litell,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he lufeþþ alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt hise laȝhess haldenn,
                                  Line 3705 
                                
                                  & lufenn, forr þe lufe off himm,
                                
                                  To libbenn her onn eorþe
                                
                                  Full wrecchelike inn uselldom
                                
                                  Off metess & off claþess.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  Line 3710 
                                
                                  Wass leȝȝd inn asse cribbe,
                                
                                  Þatt tacneþþ uss, þatt he comm her
                                
                                  To wurrþenn mann onn eorþe

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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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