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

                                
                                  Þa shulenn beon off heore kinn,
                                
                                  & off þatt illke þeode,
                                
                                  & forrþi shulenn þeȝȝ þe bett
                                
                                  Till þeȝȝre lare lisstenn,
                                
                                  & turrnenn till þe Crisstenndom,
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                                  & till þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Twa gode menn, þatt wærenn her
                                
                                  Biforenn Cristess come
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ abidenn i þiss lif,
                                
                                  Hemm shulenn þanne spellenn,
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                                  & turrnenn hemm till Cristenndom
                                
                                  To lefenn uppo Criste.
                                
                                  & off þa twa þatt an shall beon
                                
                                  Helyas þe prophete,
                                
                                  Þatt oþerr off þa twa shall beon
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                                  Eȝȝnoc þe patriarrke.
                                
                                  Eȝȝnoc wass an full haliȝ mann
                                
                                  & Drihhtin swiþe cweme,
                                
                                  & Godd himm ledde aweȝȝ fra menn
                                
                                  Wiþþ bodiȝ & wiþþ sawle,
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                                  I fell & flæsh wiþþutenn dæþ,
                                
                                  Þatt witt tu wel to soþe,
                                
                                  Biforenn þatt tatt all mannkinn
                                
                                  Þurrh Noþess flod wass drunncnedd;
                                
                                  & he iss i þiss middellærd
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                                  Whær summ itt iss onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Þær Drihhtin Godd himm hafeþþ don
                                
                                  To libbenn þære i blisse.
                                
                                  Þreo hunndredd winnterr wass he ald
                                
                                  & fife & sextiȝ mare,

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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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