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

                                
                                  Itt stod all stille upp o þe lifft,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  Rihht tær abufenn þær þe child
                                
                                  Wass inne wiþþ hiss moderr
                                
                                  Þatt fedde himm wiþþ þatt illke millc
                                  Line 6440 
                                
                                  Þatt comm off hire pappe,
                                
                                  All alls itt wære an oþerr child
                                
                                  Þatt þære onn hire streonedd.
                                
                                  & tær wass sene þatt ȝho wass
                                
                                  Soþlike Godess moderr;
                                  Line 6445 
                                
                                  Forr naffde ȝho nan millc till himm,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt ȝho nære hiss moderr;
                                
                                  Forr ȝho wass maȝȝdenn þanne, & ær,
                                
                                  & æfre þweort u¯¯t clene.
                                
                                  & sone swa þatt steorrne stod
                                  Line 6450 
                                
                                  Þa kingess wel itt sæȝhenn,
                                
                                  & ȝedenn þær inntill þatt hus
                                
                                  Þatt Jesu Crist wass inne,
                                
                                   [col 162] & fundenn þatt teȝȝ haffdenn sohht,
                                
                                  & wærenn swiþe bliþe.
                                  Line 6455 
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ fundenn ure Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  & ure laffdiȝ Marȝe,
                                
                                  & nohht ne seȝȝþ þe Goddspellboc
                                
                                  Þatt Josæp wass þærinne,
                                
                                  Þær ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  Line 6460 
                                
                                  Wass fundenn wiþþ hiss moderr;
                                
                                  & tatt wass don þurrh Godd tatt he
                                
                                  Ne wass nohht ta þærinne,

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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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