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

                                
                                  Alls iff he wære Drihhtin Crist
                                
                                  Þatt tanne cumenn wære.
                                
                                  & teȝȝ þa tokenn sanderrmenn
                                
                                  Off preostess & off dæcness
                                
                                  & senndenn u¯¯t off Ȝerrsalæm
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                                  Till himm inntill þe wesste,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ sholldenn fraȝȝnenn himm,
                                
                                  & asskenn whatt he wære.
                                
                                  & swa þeȝȝ didenn, & he þeȝȝm
                                
                                  Ȝaff sware onnȝæn, & seȝȝde;
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                                  Namm I nohht Godess Sune, Crist,
                                
                                  Þatt cumenn amm to manne.
                                
                                  & teȝȝ onnȝæn till himm; arrt tu
                                
                                  Helyas efft o life?
                                
                                  & he till hemm; naȝȝ, namm I nohht
                                  Line 10285 
                                
                                  Helyas efft o life.
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯ teȝȝ seȝȝdenn þuss till himm;
                                
                                  Seȝȝ uss, arrt tu profete?
                                
                                  & he þa seȝȝde þuss till hemm;
                                
                                  Naȝȝ, namm I nohht profete.
                                  Line 10290 
                                
                                  . . . . .
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ seȝȝdenn to Johan;
                                
                                  Seȝȝ uss, arrt tu profete,
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝdenn þeȝȝ, alls iff þeȝȝ þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ openn spæche seȝȝdenn;
                                
                                  Seȝȝ us ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu arrt
                                  Line 10295 
                                
                                  Helysew þe profete,
                                
                                  Þatt upp off dæþe risenn arrt
                                
                                  To wirrkenn miccle tacness?

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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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