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

                                
                                  Off þa þatt follȝhenn Abraham
                                
                                  & Abrahamess trowwþe,
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                                  & Abrahamess hallȝhe lif
                                
                                  & Abrahamess þæwess.
                                
                                  Þatt flocc iss Abrahamess streon
                                
                                  & Abrahamess chilldre,
                                
                                  Þatt follȝheþþ Abrahamess sloþ
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                                  Inn alle kinne gode.
                                
                                  Þa staness þatt he spacc þæroff,
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ wærenn rihhte staness
                                
                                  Þatt stodenn þær onnfasst te flumm
                                
                                  Þær he stod ta to spellenn.
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                                  & mann maȝȝ unnderrstanndenn wel,
                                
                                  Þatt witt tu wel to soþe,
                                
                                  Þatt he spacc off hæþene menn
                                
                                  Þær þær he spacc off staness,
                                
                                  Off summ hæþene flocc þatt stod
                                  Line 9875 
                                
                                  Þær bi þe flumm wiþþ oþre.
                                
                                   [col 249] Forr hæþenndom & hæþenn lif
                                
                                  & hæþenn follkess herrte
                                
                                  Iss harrd & starrc all allse stan,
                                
                                  Unnmeoc & all unnmilde,
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                                  & arelæs, & grimme, & grill,
                                
                                  & butenn rihht rewwsunnge,
                                
                                  & driȝȝe, & all wiþþutenn dæw
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gastess frofre,
                                
                                  & stunnt & stidiȝ, dill & slaw
                                  Line 9885 
                                
                                  To sekenn sawless seollþe,

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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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