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

                                
                                  Hemm þuhhte þatt he mihhte ben
                                
                                  Helysew þe profete.
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                                   [Col. 257—260 wanting.] . . . . .
                                
                                   [col 261] . . . . .word off þatt mann þennkeþþ·
                                
                                  Þe Goddspellwrihhte Sannt Johan
                                
                                  Onn hiss Goddspelless lare
                                
                                  Uss kiþeþþ off þa sanderrmenn,
                                
                                  Whatt kinness menn þeȝȝ wærenn.
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                                  He seȝȝþ uss þatt teȝȝ wærenn off
                                
                                  Farisewisshe leode,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wille don uss wel
                                
                                  To seon & tunnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Þatt nohht ne comm þatt laþe flocc
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                                  Till Sannt Johan forr gode,
                                
                                  Acc forrþi þatt teȝȝ haffdenn niþ
                                
                                  Wiþþ himm & wiþþ hiss lare,
                                
                                  & wolldenn unnderrtakenn himm
                                
                                  Off summwhatt, ȝiff þeȝȝ mihhtenn;
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                                  Acc himm wass lihht to lokenn himm
                                
                                  Fra þeȝȝre laþe wiless.
                                
                                  & teȝȝ þa seȝȝdenn till Johan;
                                
                                  Whi fullhtnesst tu þiss leode,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt tu narrt nohht Crist,
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                                  Ne Helyas, ne profete?
                                
                                  & Sannt Johan þa seȝȝde þuss;
                                
                                  Icc fullhtne i waterr ane.
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ wisstenn wel þatt Jesu Crist,
                                
                                  To manne cumenn shollde,

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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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