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

                                
                                  Biforr þe Romanisshe king
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                                  Full hefilike wreȝedd,
                                
                                  & himm wass þa þe kinedom
                                
                                  Forr hise gilltess ræfedd,
                                
                                  & he wass flemmd & drifenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  All affterr hise wrihhte,
                                  Line 8240 
                                
                                  Þurrh Rome burrhȝess Kaserrking
                                
                                  Þatt Augustuss wass nemmnedd,
                                
                                  Þatt flemmde himm u¯¯t forrþi þatt he
                                
                                  Wass ifell mann wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  & modiȝ mann att oferrdon,
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                                  & grimme wiþþ þe leode.
                                
                                  & he wass drifenn u¯¯t forrþi
                                
                                  Off all þe kineriche,
                                
                                  & he flæh inntill oþerr land
                                
                                  Þatt nemmnedd wass Vienne,
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                                  & tære he wass unnorneliȝ,
                                
                                  & tære he toc hiss ende.
                                
                                  & loc nu ȝiff Crisstene king
                                
                                  Birrþ beon rihhtwis & milde,
                                
                                  & god wiþþ all hiss follc þatt iss
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                                  Inn all hiss kineriche,
                                
                                  Þatt he ne beo biforenn Godd
                                
                                  Haldenn & tald forr werrse
                                
                                  Þann þatt hæþene Kaserrking,
                                
                                  Þatt draf all u¯¯t off lande
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                                  An mahhtiȝ king & riche king
                                
                                  & rihht forr nan þing elless,
                                
                                  Butt forr þatt he wass modiȝ mann
                                
                                  & grimme wiþþ hiss 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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