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

                                
                                  Bitwenenn þatt Judisskenn flocc
                                
                                  Þatt læredd wass o boke;
                                
                                  & tære he satt to fraȝȝnenn hemm
                                
                                  Off þeȝȝre bokess lare,
                                
                                  & alle þatt himm herrdenn þær,
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                                  Hemm þuhhte mikell wunnderr
                                
                                  Off þatt he wass full ȝæp & wis
                                
                                  To swarenn & to fraȝȝnenn.
                                
                                  & Sannte Marȝe comm till himm
                                
                                  & seȝȝde himm þuss wiþþ worde,
                                  Line 8940 
                                
                                  Whi didesst tu, lef sune, þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ uss, forr uss to swennkenn?
                                
                                  Witt hafenn sohht te widewhar
                                
                                  Icc & ti faderr baþe
                                
                                  Wiþþ serrhfull herrte & sariȝ mod,
                                  Line 8945 
                                
                                  Whi didesst tu þiss dede?
                                
                                  & tanne seȝȝde Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Till baþe þuss wiþþ worde,
                                
                                  Whatt wass ȝuw swa to sekenn me,
                                
                                  Whatt wass ȝuw swa to serrȝhenn?
                                  Line 8950 
                                
                                  Ne wisste ȝe nohht tatt me birrþ
                                
                                  Min faderr wille forþenn?
                                
                                  Ne þatt me birrþ beon hoȝhefull
                                
                                  Abutenn hise þingess?
                                
                                  & teȝȝ ne mihhtenn nohht tatt word
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                                  Ȝe¯¯t ta wel unnderrstanndenn;
                                
                                  & he þa ȝede forþ wiþþ hemm
                                
                                  & dide hemm heore wille,
                                
                                  & comm wiþþ hemm till Nazaræþ,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,

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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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