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

                                
                                  Well mikell fresst biforenn þatt
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                                  Þatt Crist comm her to manne,
                                
                                  Þa susstress — þatt witt tu full wiss,
                                
                                  Werenn Labaness dohhtress.
                                
                                  & Laban wass an riche mann
                                
                                  I werelldþingess sellþe,
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                                  & hise tweȝȝenn dohhtress uss
                                
                                  Tacnedenn tweȝȝenn lifess,
                                
                                  Þa lifess þatt icc habbe ȝuw
                                
                                  Summ del nu spelledd offe,
                                
                                  Affterr þatt little witt tatt me
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                                  Min Drihhtin hafeþþ lenedd.
                                
                                  Þatt an wass swiþe faȝȝerr wif,
                                
                                  & wass Rachæl ȝehatenn
                                
                                   [Coll. 157—160, wanting.] . . . . .
                                
                                   [col 161] . . . . .ledenn hemm þe weȝȝe rihht
                                
                                  Till himm þatt teȝȝ þær sohhtenn.
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                                  & teȝȝ þa comenn to þe king,
                                
                                  & he þeȝȝm droh to rune,
                                
                                  & toc hemm þa full dærneliȝ
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn off þatt steorrne,
                                
                                  Whillc daȝȝ itt wass hemm allre firrst
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                                  To tákenn sett o liffte,
                                
                                  & teȝȝ himm seȝȝdenn witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Whillc daȝȝ itt wass hemm awwnedd.
                                
                                  & he þeȝȝm sennde sone forþ
                                
                                  Till Beþþleæm & seȝȝde;

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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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