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

                                
                                  & teȝȝre năme þohh swa þehh
                                
                                  Bitacneþþ rihhtwisnesse,
                                
                                  Forr Saduceow bitacneþþ uss
                                
                                  Rihhtwis onn Ennglissh spæche,
                                  Line 9720 
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt wherrfedd follc hemm hallt
                                
                                   [col 246] Forr gode & forr rihhtwise,
                                
                                  & sinndenn þohh biforenn Godd
                                
                                  Unnclene & all unncweme.
                                
                                  & forrþi toc Johan wiþþ hemm
                                  Line 9725 
                                
                                  Full bitterrliȝ to mælenn,
                                
                                  To shæwenn hemm þatt heore lif
                                
                                  Wass Drihhtin full unncweme.
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ wass oþerrwhatt forrwhi
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ wærenn Drihhtin laþe.
                                  Line 9730 
                                
                                  All þatt prophetess haffdenn seȝȝd
                                
                                  Off þatt tatt cumenn shollde,
                                
                                  All þatt forrwurrpenn þeȝȝ þweorrt u¯¯t
                                
                                  All alls itt unnitt wære;
                                
                                  & tatt wass mikell hæþenndom
                                  Line 9735 
                                
                                  Till hemm & hefiȝ dwilde,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ forrwurrpenn all þwerrt u¯¯t
                                
                                  To lefenn & to trowwenn
                                
                                  All þatt tatt Godess aȝhenn Gast,
                                
                                  Þurrh hiss profetess tunge,
                                  Line 9740 
                                
                                  Till all follc haffde cwiddedd wel
                                
                                  Off all þatt cumenn shollde,
                                
                                  All þatt tatt god & halsumm wass
                                
                                  Till all mannkinne nede.

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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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