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

                                
                                  Forr þiss Lamb iss þatt rihhte stih
                                
                                  Þatt ledeþþ upp till heffne;
                                
                                  & tiss Lamb iss þatt eche lif
                                
                                  Þatt heffneware brukeþþ;
                                
                                  & tiss iss soþfasstnessess hord
                                  Line 12920 
                                
                                  Þatt all mannkinn birrþ sekenn.
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ comenn forr to fraȝȝnenn Crist
                                
                                  Off whære he wass att inne,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ wolldenn cumenn efft
                                
                                  & efft, & offte, & lome
                                  Line 12925 
                                
                                  Till himm, whærsumm he wære att inn,
                                
                                  Forr himm to sen & herenn,
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ wisstenn witerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt nohht ne munnde itt geȝȝnenn,
                                
                                  To þewwtenn Godd fra þeþennforþ
                                  Line 12930 
                                
                                  O þatt Judisskenn wise.
                                
                                  Þatt Crist himm turrnde towarrd hemm
                                
                                  To fraȝȝnenn whatt teȝȝ sohhtenn;
                                
                                  Þatt wass forr þatt he wollde don
                                
                                   [col 312] All mannkinn tunnderrstanndenn,
                                  Line 12935 
                                
                                  Þatt Godd iss rædiȝ tunnderrfon
                                
                                  Þatt follc þatt rihht himm follȝheþþ·
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd le¯¯t hemm sen
                                
                                  Hiss onndlæ¯¯t, forr to tacnenn
                                
                                  Þatt he wass wurrþenn mann, forrþi
                                  Line 12940 
                                
                                  Þatt menn himm sholldenn cnawenn,
                                
                                  & lufenn himm & þewwtenn himm,
                                
                                  To berrȝhenn þeȝȝre sawless,

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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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