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

                                
                                  Þær Messyass soþ Crist, soþ Godd,
                                
                                  To manne cumenn sollde;
                                
                                  Acc nisstenn þeȝȝ nohht tohh swa þehh
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                                  Whatt time he cumenn wollde;
                                
                                  Acc þatt wisste Kalldisskenn follc,
                                
                                  Þatt he wass cumenn þanne,
                                
                                  Þatt wisstenn þeȝȝ þurrh þatt hemm wass
                                
                                  Awwnedd tatt newe sterrne.
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                                  & swa þurrh þatt Kalldisskenn follc,
                                
                                  & ec þurrh þatt Judisskenn,
                                
                                  Well mikell lerrnde Herode king
                                
                                  Off Crist, & off hiss come;
                                
                                  Forr baþe he lerrnde wel þurrh hemm
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                                  Whatt daȝȝ, & whære o lande,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝunge wennchell borenn wass
                                
                                  Off þatt Judisskenn lede,
                                
                                  Þatt shollde ben Judisskenn king
                                
                                  All wiþþ rihht aþell kinde.
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                                  & sone siþþenn sennde he forþ
                                
                                  Þatt Kalldewisshe genge,
                                
                                  To sekenn þatt Judisskenn king
                                
                                  I Beþþleæmess chesstre,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde cwellenn himm,
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                                  Ȝiff þatt he mihhte himm findenn.
                                
                                  Þatt burrh wass Daviþþ kingess burrh
                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass borenn inne;
                                
                                  & tatt wass baþe rihht & wel
                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass borenn þære,
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                                  Forr Crist wass off Daviþess kinn,
                                
                                  & King off alle kingess.

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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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