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

                                
                                  Þatt wære alls he þær haffde þeȝȝm
                                
                                  Þurrh modiȝnesse fraȝȝnedd
                                  Line 12975 
                                
                                  Ȝiff hemm wass ned to sekenn himm,
                                
                                  Forr himm to sen & herenn.
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ clepedenn forrþrihht
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd teȝȝre maȝȝstre,
                                
                                  Þatt doþ uss opennliȝ to sen
                                  Line 12980 
                                
                                  Þatt wel þeȝȝ unnderrstodenn
                                
                                  Þatt he wass maȝȝstre off all mannkinn,
                                
                                  To wissenn & to lærenn.
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ tokenn þær to fraȝȝnenn Crist
                                
                                  Off whære he wass att hame,
                                  Line 12985 
                                
                                  & tatt wass seȝȝd all swa summ þeȝȝ
                                
                                  Himm wolldenn þære fraȝȝnenn,
                                
                                  Wiþþ whatt teȝȝ mihhtenn cwemenn himm
                                
                                  Swa þwerrt u¯¯t wel wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  Þatt he þurrh Haliȝ Gast inn hemm
                                  Line 12990 
                                
                                  Himm wollde takenn resste.
                                
                                  & tatt wass ec seȝȝd tær þurrh hemm,
                                
                                  Swa summ þeȝȝ wolldenn fraȝȝnenn,
                                
                                   [col 313] I whillke menn hiss resste wass,
                                
                                  Forr hemm þeȝȝ wolldenn follȝhenn,
                                  Line 12995 
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ mihhtenn ben wiþþ hemm
                                
                                  Hiss Goddcunndnessess resste.
                                
                                  & ec wass þatt swa seȝȝd summ þeȝȝ
                                
                                  Himm wolldenn þære fraȝȝnenn,
                                
                                  O whillke wise he wass all an
                                  Line 13000 
                                
                                  I kinde & ec i mahhte,

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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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