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

                                
                                  & tatt he shollde fullhtnenn menn
                                
                                  Þurrh hise Leorningcnihhtess,
                                
                                  & forrþi wenndenn þeȝȝ full wel
                                
                                  Off Sannt Johan Bapptisste,
                                
                                  Þatt he wisslike wære Crist,
                                  Line 10330 
                                
                                  Forr þatt he stod to fullhtnenn.
                                
                                  & ec þeȝȝ wisstenn full wel off
                                
                                  Helyas þe profete,
                                
                                  & ec full wel off Helyseow,
                                
                                  Þatt eȝȝþerr inn hiss time
                                  Line 10335 
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin ȝede upp o þe flumm
                                
                                  Alls itt onn eorþe wære,
                                
                                  & all comm oferr driȝȝefo¯¯t
                                
                                  All alls itt waterr nære.
                                
                                  & ec þeȝȝ wisstenn witerrliȝ
                                  Line 10340 
                                
                                  Þurrh þeȝȝre bokess lare
                                
                                  Þatt fulluhht wass, ȝa þurrh þe flumm,
                                
                                  Ȝa þurrh hemm baþe tacnedd;
                                
                                  & forrþi wenndenn þeȝȝ full wel,
                                
                                  Þatt owwþerr off þa tweȝȝenn
                                  Line 10345 
                                
                                  Off dæþe wære risenn upp
                                
                                  To spellenn & to fullhtnenn.
                                
                                  & Sannt Johan hemm dide wel
                                
                                  To seon & tunnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Þatt he nass næfr an off þa þreo,
                                  Line 10350 
                                
                                   [col 262] Forr nollde he nawihht leȝhenn.
                                
                                  Þatt Sannt Johan hemm seȝȝde þuss,
                                
                                  Icc fullhtne i waterr ane,

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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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