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

                                
                                  Forr all swa summ þe laþe gast
                                
                                  Aȝȝ niþþreþþ Godess genge,
                                
                                  & cwelleþþ hemm & wannseþþ hemm,
                                
                                  Þurrh hise unnfæle þeowwess,
                                
                                  All swa þatt laþe Herode king
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                                  Þurrh hise laþe þeowwess
                                
                                  Offcwalde, forr to cwellenn Crist,
                                
                                  Þa gilltelæse chilldre.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt Herode king
                                
                                  Le¯¯t slæn þa little barrness,
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                                  Þærþurrh wass uss bitacnedd wel
                                
                                  All onn an oþerr wise,
                                
                                  Þatt ifell gast maȝȝ oferr þa
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn barrness þæwess
                                
                                  Inn illc unnwitt, inn illc unnitt,
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                                  Inn ægede & i leȝȝkess.
                                
                                  Forr Latin boc uss seȝȝþ full wel
                                
                                  Þatt tatt mann iss forrwarrȝedd
                                
                                  Þatt iss an hunndredd winnterr ald,
                                
                                  & follȝheþþ childess gæress.
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                                  & off þiss illke seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Þe posstell Sannte Pawell;
                                
                                  Aȝȝ whil þatt I wass litell child
                                
                                  Icc held o childess þæwess,
                                
                                  & son summ icc wass waxenn mann,
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                                  Þa flæh I childess cosstess.
                                
                                  & uss birrþ alle samenn wel
                                
                                  Hiss hallȝhe bisne follȝhenn,
                                
                                  & all forrwerrpenn illc unnitt
                                
                                  Off ægede & off leȝȝkess,

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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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