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

                                
                                  & dumb, & dæf, & blind off Godd
                                
                                  To cnawenn & to cwemenn,
                                
                                  & wass forrþi full opennliȝ
                                
                                  Bitacnedd þurrh þa staness
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                                  Þatt Cristess bidell Sannt Johan
                                
                                  Spacc offe, þær he seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin haffde mahht inoh
                                
                                  To reȝȝsenn off þa staness
                                
                                  Rihht aþell streon till Abraham,
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                                  Rihht Abrahamess chilldre.
                                
                                  Forr þa wass cumenn to, þatt Crist
                                
                                  Þa shollde cumenn newenn,
                                
                                  Þatt shollde turrnenn hæþenn follc
                                
                                  Þurrh hise Leorningcnihhtess
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                                  Till fulluhht & till Crisstenndom,
                                
                                  & till þe rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Abrahamess Godd,
                                
                                  & Abrahamess trowwþe,
                                
                                  & Abrahamess hallȝhe lif,
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                                  & Abrahamess þæwess,
                                
                                  To wurrþenn Abrahamess streon
                                
                                  Off himm gastlike streonedd,
                                
                                  To winnenn aȝȝ occ aȝȝ to beon
                                
                                  Wiþþ Abraham i blisse.
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                                  & forr þatt Drihhtin wel maȝȝ don
                                
                                  All þatt himm sellfenn likeþþ;
                                
                                  He mihhte makenn cwike menn
                                
                                  Þær off þa same staness,
                                
                                  Þatt stodenn þær bi Sannt Johan
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                                  Þær he spacc to þe leode,

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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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