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

                                
                                  & teȝȝre win wass drunnkenn swa
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                                  Þatt tær nass þa na mare;
                                
                                  & Crisstess moderr comm till Crist
                                
                                  & seȝȝde himm þuss wiþþ worde;
                                
                                  Þiss win iss drunnkenn to þe grund,
                                
                                  & niss her nu na mare.
                                  Line 14015 
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Þuss seȝȝde till hiss moderr;
                                
                                  Whatt falleþþ þiss till me wiþþ þe,
                                
                                  Wifmann, þiss þatt tu mælesst?
                                
                                  Abid, abid, wifmann, abid,
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                                  Ne comm nohht ȝe¯¯ min time.
                                
                                  & Sannte Marȝe ȝede anan,
                                
                                  & seȝȝde to þe birrless;
                                
                                  Doþ þatt tatt he shall biddenn ȝuw,
                                
                                  Ne be ȝe nohht tærȝæness.
                                  Line 14025 
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ haffdenn sexe fe¯¯tless þær
                                
                                  Att tatt bridaless sæte,
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn, summ þe Goddspell seȝȝþ,
                                
                                  Sexe stanene fe¯¯tless,
                                
                                  Swillke summ þatt Judisskenn follc
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                                  Wass wunedd i þatt time
                                
                                  To wasshenn offe þeȝȝre lic,
                                
                                  To clennsenn hemm þatt wise;
                                
                                  & twafald oþerr þrefald mett
                                
                                  Þa fe¯¯tless alle tokenn.
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                                  & Crist badd tatt teȝȝ sholldenn gan
                                
                                  & fillenn þeȝȝre fe¯¯tless
                                
                                  Wiþþ waterr; & teȝȝ ȝedenn till,
                                
                                  & didenn þatt he seȝȝde,

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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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