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

                                  
                                    Inn all þatt boc, þatt Moysæs
                                  
                                    & tatt profetess wrohhtenn.
                                  
                                    & tær wass i þe waterr win
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                                    Bilokenn & bilappedd,
                                  
                                    Forrþi þatt gastliȝ witt wass þa
                                  
                                    Inn all þe lare cwennkedd,
                                  
                                    Þurrh þatt te boc wass turrnedd all
                                  
                                    Inntill flæshlike lare
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                                    Þurrh þatt Farisewwisshe follc
                                  
                                    Þatt læredd wass o boke.
                                  
                                    & affterr þatt te Laferrd Crist
                                  
                                    Wass cumenn her to manne,
                                  
                                    He ȝaff hiss follc þurrh Haliȝ Gast
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                                    Gastlike tunnderrstanndenn
                                  
                                    Þe boc, whatt ȝate itt writenn wass
                                  
                                    Off himm & off hiss come.
                                  
                                    & swa wass waterr inntill win
                                  
                                    Þurrh Cristess come turrnedd,
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                                    Þurrh þatt te bokess flæshliȝ witt
                                  
                                    Till gastliȝ witt wass wharrfedd.

                                  
                                    Þa bokess þatt te Laferrd Crist
                                  
                                    Ȝaff gastliȝ tunnderrstanndenn,
                                  
                                    Þeȝȝ wærenn Moysæsess boc,
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                                    & Sallmsang, & Profetess,
                                  
                                    Þatt wærenn aȝȝ till Cristess daȝȝ
                                  
                                    Swa summ þeȝȝ waterr wærenn,
                                  
                                    Off wikke smacc þurrh flæsliȝ witt
                                  
                                    Unnderr stafflike lare.

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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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