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

                                
                                  & ȝuw birrþ unnderrstanndenn wel
                                
                                  & lefenn wel & trowwenn,
                                
                                  Þatt mikell flocc off oþre menn
                                  Line 6780 
                                
                                  Comm forþ wiþþ þa þreo kingess
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe Kalldewisshe land
                                
                                  Till Beþþleæmess chesstre.
                                
                                  Acc Goddspellboc ne spekeþþ nohht
                                
                                  Off all þatt oþerr genge,
                                  Line 6785 
                                
                                  Acc opennlike & wel itt uss
                                
                                  Off þa þreo kingess telleþþ,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt tær wass þurrh þa þreo
                                
                                  Þe Crisstenndom bigunnenn
                                
                                  Bitwenenn all hæþene follc
                                  Line 6790 
                                
                                  Þatt þurrh þreo menn wass streonedd,
                                
                                  Affterr þatt tatt all mannkinn wass
                                
                                  Þurrh Noþess flod offdrunncnedd;
                                
                                  Forr all follc wass þurrh Noþess flodd
                                
                                  O Noþess time drunncnedd.
                                  Line 6795 
                                
                                  & efft þurrh Noþess suness þreo
                                
                                  Wass hæþenn þeode streonedd,
                                
                                  & all hæþene follc wass þær
                                
                                  Þurrh þa þreo kingess awwnedd;
                                
                                  Forr þurrh þa þreo þatt comenn forþ
                                  Line 6800 
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd Crist to lakenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh hemm, swa summ icc habbe seȝȝd,
                                
                                  Wass Crisstenndom bigunnenn
                                
                                  Bitwenenn þatt hæþene þeod
                                
                                  Þatt þurrh þreo menn wass streonedd.
                                  Line 6805 
                                
                                  Þe tweȝȝenn wærenn Sæm & Kam,
                                
                                  & Jafæ¯¯th wass þe þridde,

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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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