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

                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde lesenn u¯¯t
                                  Line 6550 
                                
                                  Mannkinn off hellepine.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Wass borenn her to manne
                                
                                  Rihht i þe land off Ȝerrsalæm,
                                
                                  & tatt he þær wass fundenn,
                                  Line 6555 
                                
                                  Þatt tacneþþ uss well mikell þing
                                
                                  Off ure sawless nede;
                                
                                  Forr witt tu well þatt Ȝerrsalæm
                                
                                  Bitacneþþ griþess sihhþe,
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                  Line 6560 
                                
                                  Wass borenn her to manne,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde settenn griþþ
                                
                                  Bitwenenn heoffne & eorþe;
                                
                                  & whase itt iss þatt lufeþþ griþþ
                                
                                   [col 164] & follȝheþþ wiþþ hiss herrte,
                                  Line 6565 
                                
                                  Þatt mann shall findenn Jesu Crist
                                
                                  To beon wiþþ himm i blisse.
                                
                                  Þatt ta þreo kingess turrndenn hemm
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe rihhte weȝȝe,
                                
                                  & forenn till Herode king
                                  Line 6570 
                                
                                  To wi˘tenn whatt he wollde,
                                
                                  Þatt uss bitacneþþ witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh all full openn bisne,
                                
                                  Þatt sume off ure little flocc
                                
                                  Þatt lefeþþ uppo Criste
                                  Line 6575 
                                
                                  Hemm wendenn oþerr stund fra Crist,
                                
                                  & fra þe rihhte weȝȝe,

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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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