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

                                
                                  Þeȝȝ ummbeshærenn Cristess shapp
                                
                                  Wiþþ stan forr cnifess egge,
                                
                                  & he wass o þatt illke daȝȝ
                                
                                  Jesus bi name nemmnedd,
                                
                                  All affterr þatt itt cwiddedd wass
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                                  Þurrh Gabriæl hehenngell,
                                
                                   [col 109] Biforenn þatt he cumenn wass
                                
                                  I Sannte Marȝess wambe.
                                
                                  & wel þatt enngell seȝȝde whi
                                
                                  He shollde swa ben nemmnedd;
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                                  He seȝȝde þatt he shollde ben
                                
                                  Jesus bi name nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he shollde hiss aȝhenn follc
                                
                                  Hælenn off sinness wunde;
                                
                                  Forr Jesuss o Grickisshe mal
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                                  Onn Ennglissh iss Hælennde.
                                
                                  & Crist iss nemmnedd swiþe rihht
                                
                                  Hælennde onn Ennglissh spæche;
                                
                                  Forr he comm her to læchenn uss
                                
                                  Off all þatt dæþess wunde,
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                                  Þatt Adam haffde ȝifenn uss
                                
                                  Þurrh hiss unnherrsummnesse.
                                
                                  Forr þærto comm þe Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  To wurrþenn mann onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde lesenn menn
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                                  U¯¯t off þe deofless walde,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt he wollde þolenn dæþ
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn hise wrihhte,

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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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