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

                                
                                  Swa summ ȝe nemmnenn ȝure ȝer
                                
                                  Twellf moneþþ, & tohhwheþþre
                                
                                  Ȝe muȝhenn uppo ȝure ȝer
                                  Line 11070 
                                
                                  Þrittene moneþþ findenn.
                                
                                  Loc nu ȝiff twellfte daȝȝ iss wurrþ
                                
                                  To beon wurrþlike freollsedd;
                                
                                  Itt iss wel wurrþ la fuliwiss
                                
                                  To beon wurrþlike freollsedd;
                                  Line 11075 
                                
                                  Forr o þatt daȝȝ wass Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Midd þrinne lakess lakedd,
                                
                                  & o þatt daȝȝ he fullhtnedd wass
                                
                                  Þurrh Sannt Johan Baptisste,
                                
                                  & o þatt daȝȝ he wrohhte win
                                  Line 11080 
                                
                                  Off waterr þurrh hiss mahhte,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt he wass Allmahhtiȝ Godd
                                
                                  Þatt alle shaffte wrohhte.
                                
                                   [col 273] & whi le¯¯t ure Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Bilimmpenn þa þreo þingess
                                  Line 11085 
                                
                                  Aȝȝ onn an daȝȝ uppo þe ȝer?
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde shæwenn
                                
                                  Whatt gate he wollde greȝȝþenn uss
                                
                                  To winnenn eche blisse.
                                
                                  Þatt newe sterrne þatt he ȝaff
                                  Line 11090 
                                
                                  Þa Kalldewisshe kingess,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde ledenn hemm
                                
                                  Till himm þe rihhte weȝȝe,
                                
                                  Þatt newe steorrne ȝaff he þeȝȝm,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn
                                  Line 11095 
                                
                                  Þe rihhte læfess brihhte leom
                                
                                  Þatt ledeþþ upp till heoffne

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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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