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

                                
                                  & illc an lawe & illc an hill
                                
                                  Shall niþþredd beon & laȝhedd,
                                
                                  Þatt wass alls iff he seȝȝde þuss
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                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche;
                                
                                  Nu ske¯¯t shall Godess Sune Crist
                                
                                  Himm awwnenn her onn eorþe,
                                
                                  Forr her to niþþrenn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt modiȝnesse follȝhenn,
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                                  & forr to reȝȝsenn alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt follȝhenn soþ meocnesse,
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin hăteþþ modiȝ mann,
                                
                                  & lufeþþ alle meoke.
                                
                                  & tiss mann unnderrstanndenn maȝȝ
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                                  Ȝe¯¯t onn an oþerr wise,
                                
                                  Þatt Issraæle þeod allmasst
                                
                                   [col 236] Þa shollde beon forrworrpenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ sholldenn Crist forrseon
                                
                                  Þurrh þeȝȝre modiȝnesse,
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                                  Þatt follc, þatt haffde beon till þa
                                
                                  Heh follc & rannc onn eorþe;
                                
                                  Forr Drihhtin haffde chosenn hemm
                                
                                  & heȝhedd hemm & wurrþedd
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt tatt he þeȝȝm haffde sett
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                                  Bisscopess, preostess, dæcness,
                                
                                  & laȝheboc, & lare inoh
                                
                                  Off all þatt hemm wass þurrfe,
                                
                                  & wærenn hofenn upp þurrh þatt
                                
                                  Abufenn alle þeode,

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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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