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

                                
                                  Acc all swa summ ȝho wisste wel
                                
                                  Þatt all þe lede wennde,
                                
                                  Annd all swa summ ȝho wisste wel
                                  Line 9045 
                                
                                  Þatt laþe gastess wenndenn,
                                
                                  Þatt hire sune Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Josæpess sune wære,
                                
                                  All swa ȝho spacc rihht alls iff he
                                
                                  Josæpess sune wære;
                                  Line 9050 
                                
                                  Forr þatt ȝho nollde nohht off Crist
                                
                                  Þurrh hi˘re sellfenn shæwenn,
                                
                                  Butt all swillc summ þe laþe gast
                                
                                  & ec þe follc wel wennde,
                                
                                  Swillc durrste ȝho shæwenn off Crist;
                                  Line 9055 
                                
                                  & all forrþi ȝho seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Lef sune, icc & tin faderr þe
                                
                                  Sohht hafenn mikell baþe;
                                
                                  Forr þatt ȝho wollde lætenn wel
                                
                                  Himm sellfenn off himm sellfenn
                                  Line 9060 
                                
                                  All shæwenn whatt he wass, & hu
                                
                                  He cumenn wass to manne
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Wass herrsumm till hemm baþe,
                                
                                  & æddmod aȝȝ, & bliþe, & fus
                                  Line 9065 
                                
                                  To follȝhenn heore wille,
                                
                                  Þatt dide he forr he wollde swa
                                
                                  Uss alle ȝifenn bisne,
                                
                                  To cwemenn ure faderr wel
                                
                                  & ure moderr baþe,
                                  Line 9070 
                                
                                  To lutenn hemm, to lefftenn hemm,
                                
                                  To serrfenn hemm well ȝerrne,

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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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