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

                                
                                  Wiþþ all swillc lac alls hemm wass sett
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin þær to brinngenn.
                                
                                  Þatt lac þatt tær wass brohht wiþþ himm
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                                  Wass tweȝȝenn cullfre briddess,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspellwrihhte seȝȝþ,
                                
                                  Oþþr itt wass tweȝȝenn turrtless.
                                
                                  & tær wass cumenn o þatt daȝȝ
                                
                                  An haliȝ mann to minnstre,
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                                  & he wass hátenn Symeon,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  & he wass full off Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Þatt dide himm tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Þatt tatt wass Godess Sune & Godd,
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                                  Þatt tær wass brohht to kirrke.
                                
                                  & he wass an Judisskenn mann
                                
                                  Full haliȝ i þatt time,
                                
                                  & haffde ȝeornedd inn hiss þohht
                                
                                  Aȝȝ affterr Cristess come,
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                                  & haffde ȝeornedd aȝȝ þatt he
                                
                                   [col 174] Swa lannge mosste libbenn,
                                
                                  Þatt he wiþþ ehhne mihhte seon
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd Crist onn eorþe.
                                
                                  & Drihhtin haffde ȝatedd himm
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                                  Þatt bone þatt he ȝeorrnde,
                                
                                  & haffde himm seȝȝd þurrh Haliȝ Gast,
                                
                                  Þatt nohht ne shollde he swelltenn
                                
                                  Biforenn þatt he shollde seon
                                
                                  Crist, Godess Sune, onn eorþe.

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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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