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

                                
                                  & tær wass he full lic wiþþ ærn
                                
                                  Þatt fleȝheþþ upp full heȝhe.
                                
                                  Þuss wærenn þurrh þa fowwre deor
                                  Line 5890 
                                
                                  Þa fowwre menn bitacnedd
                                
                                  Þatt wri˘tenn off þe Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Goddspell o fowwre bokess.
                                
                                  & tise fowwre gode menn,
                                
                                  Wiþþ heore fowwre bokess,
                                  Line 5895 
                                
                                  Sinndenn gastlike i gastliȝ witt
                                
                                  An waȝȝn wiþþ fowwre wheoless,
                                
                                  Þatt bereþþ i þiss middellærd
                                
                                  Drihhtin fra land to lande;
                                
                                  Forr wíde & síde spelledd iss
                                  Line 5900 
                                
                                  Þurrh heore fowwre bokess
                                
                                  Off ure Laferrd Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  & hu mann birrþ himm þeowwtenn.
                                
                                  & whære o lande summ itt iss
                                
                                  Þatt mann off Goddspell spelleþþ,
                                  Line 5905 
                                
                                  Hu mann birrþ þeowwtenn Jesu Crist
                                
                                  & lufenn himm & drædenn,
                                
                                  Þær iss þe Laferrd Crist himm sellf,
                                
                                  & tiderr iss he waȝȝnedd
                                
                                  Uppo þatt hallȝhe waȝȝn þatt gaþ
                                  Line 5910 
                                
                                  O fowwre Goddspellwheless.
                                
                                  Þiss waȝȝn wass þurrh an kingess waȝȝn
                                
                                  Inn alde daȝhess tacnedd,
                                
                                  Full mikell fresst biforenn þatt
                                
                                  Þatt Crist comm her to manne,
                                  Line 5915 
                                
                                  & he þatt king bi năme wass
                                
                                  Amminadab ȝehatenn,

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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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