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

                                
                                  Me mineþþ þatt te Goddspell seȝȝþ,
                                
                                  Þatt Sannt Johan Bapptisste
                                
                                  Wass sennd to manne þurrh Drihhtin
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                                  Biforenn Cristess come,
                                
                                  To ȝarrkenn follc onnȝæness Crist
                                
                                  Wiþþ fulluhht & wiþþ lare.
                                
                                  & tatt wass ned tatt he wass sennd
                                
                                  To spellenn & to fullhtnenn,
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                                  Ær þann þe Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Bigann owwþerr to donne.
                                
                                  Forr ȝiff he come himm sellf þær forþ,
                                
                                  Færlike forr to spellenn
                                
                                  Off all hiss Goddcunndnessess mahht
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                                  & off hiss deope lare,
                                
                                  Ne munnde nohht tatt illke follc
                                
                                  Þatt Crist comm till onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Þatt haffdenn ledd aȝȝ þeȝȝre lif
                                
                                  Affterr þe flæshess wille,
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                                  Ne munndenn þeȝȝ nohht habbenn mihht,
                                
                                  Ne witt, ne forrþenn wille
                                
                                   [col 231] To turrnenn hemm all till hiss hannd,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn all hiss lare,
                                
                                  & to forrwerrpenn all þatt lif
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                                  & all þatt laȝhess lade
                                
                                  Þatt he wass sett þurrh Drihhtin sellf
                                
                                  To ledenn & to follȝhenn.
                                
                                  & all forrþi comm Sannt Johan
                                
                                  Biforenn Cristess come,

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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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