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

                                
                                  All alls hiss faderr haffde don,
                                  Line 8455 
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt het¯¯ haffde fundenn;
                                
                                  & he wass orraþ þa summ del
                                
                                  Off — whær he mihhte biggenn.
                                
                                  & Godess enngell comm himm to
                                
                                  & seȝȝde himm þa to wisse
                                  Line 8460 
                                
                                  Whillc ende off Issraæless land
                                
                                  He shollde þanne sekenn,
                                
                                  To biggenn þær all stilleliȝ
                                
                                  Wiþþ Crist & wiþþ hiss moderr.
                                
                                  Þatt wass þe land off Galileo
                                  Line 8465 
                                
                                  Þatt himm wass bedenn sekenn,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt Arrchelaw þe king
                                
                                  Þær munnde cumenn seldenn;
                                
                                  Forr Ȝerrsalæm wass hæfedd burrh
                                
                                  Off Issraæless riche,
                                  Line 8470 
                                
                                  & tær wass þeȝȝre king aȝȝ mast,
                                
                                  & seldenn owwhær elless;
                                
                                  & Galilew wass feorr þær fra
                                
                                  U¯¯t inn an oþerr ende,
                                
                                  & forrþi mihhte þær þe child
                                  Line 8475 
                                
                                  Full dærnelike biggenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt himm Arrchelaw þe king
                                
                                  Ne munnde þær nohht sekenn.
                                
                                  Þatt chesstre þatt te Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Comm till, forr þær to biggenn,
                                  Line 8480 
                                
                                  Bitacneþþ uss þatt little flocc
                                
                                  Off þatt Judisskenn þeode,
                                
                                  Þatt little flocc þatt toc wiþþ Crist
                                
                                  & wiþþ þe rihhte læfe,

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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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