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

                                
                                  Himm birrþ forrlesenn all wiþþ rihht
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                                  Drihhtiness hald & hellpe.
                                
                                  & whase sekeþþ ræd & run
                                
                                  & witt att deofless þeowwess,
                                
                                  Drihhtiness lare & ræd & run
                                
                                  Þatt illke mann forrleoseþþ·
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                                  Herode wollde bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt ȝunge king offcwellenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde ȝifenn all
                                
                                  Hiss aȝhenn sune hiss riche,
                                
                                  & forr he wollde ȝemenn himm
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                                  Þatt he ne wære wreȝedd
                                
                                  Biforr þe Romanisshe king
                                
                                  Þatt wass hiss oferrlaferrd;
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff he léte waxenn þær
                                
                                  Awihht off wiþerrstrenncþe
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                                  Onnȝæn hiss aȝhenn oferrking,
                                
                                  Itt birrde himm wel abiggenn,
                                
                                  & forrþi wollde he cwellenn Crist,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt he mihhte himm findenn,
                                
                                  Þatt he ne felle i wraþþe onnȝæn
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                                  Þe Romanisshe leode.
                                
                                  & tatt he toc swa stilleliȝ
                                
                                  Þa Kalldewisshe kingess,
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn hemm all dærneliȝ
                                
                                  Off þeȝȝre newe steorrne,
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                                  Þatt dide he forr he nollde nohht
                                
                                  Þatt aniȝ mann itt wisste,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt he wass þa forrdredd
                                
                                  Off hiss Judisskenn leode,

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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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