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

                                
                                  Forrþi þatt all þiss weorrldess ald
                                
                                  Bi seoffne daȝhess eorneþþ,
                                
                                  & forrþi maȝȝ itt tacnenn wel
                                
                                  All heofennrichess blisse,
                                
                                  Þatt aȝȝ occ aȝȝ shall lasstenn uss,
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                                  Ȝiff þatt wet¯¯ muȝhenn winnenn.
                                
                                  & forrþi wass he seofenn ȝer
                                
                                  Amang hæþene þeode,
                                
                                  For þatt he wollde hemm swa þurrh þatt
                                
                                  Full opennliȝ bitacnenn,
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                                  Þatt he þeȝȝm wollde ȝifenn lif
                                
                                  A butenn ende i blisse,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt teȝȝ wolldenn follȝhenn himm
                                
                                  & hise laȝhess haldenn.
                                
                                  & affterr þatt te Laferrd Crist
                                  Line 8845 
                                
                                  Wass cumenn off Egippte,
                                
                                  Inntill þe land off Galileo
                                
                                  Till Nazaræþess chesstre,
                                
                                  Þær he bilæf wiþþ hise frend,
                                
                                  Wiþþ Sannte Marȝe hiss moderr,
                                  Line 8850 
                                
                                  & wiþþ þatt hallȝhe mann Josæp
                                
                                  Þatt himm wass sett to fosstrenn.
                                
                                  & tære he wex, & þraf, & wass
                                
                                  Full herrsumm till hiss moderr,
                                
                                  & till hiss fossterrfaderr ec
                                  Line 8855 
                                
                                  He wass buhsumm & milde.
                                
                                   [col 218] Þurrh þatt tatt cwiddedd wass off Crist
                                
                                  Forrlannge þurrh prophete,

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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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