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

                                  
                                    Whatt haffdenn uss to tacnenn þær
                                    Line 14410 
                                  
                                    Þa sexe waterrfe¯¯tless,
                                  
                                    Þatt stodenn wiþþ þatt waterr þær
                                  
                                    Þatt inntill win wass turrnedd?
                                  
                                    Þeȝȝ wærenn forr to tacnenn uss
                                  
                                    Þiss werrldess sexe daless,
                                    Line 14415 
                                  
                                    Þatt wærenn full off witeȝhunng
                                  
                                    Alls itt off waterr wære,
                                  
                                    Aȝȝ whil þatt menn þurrh flæshliȝ witt
                                  
                                    Stafflike itt unnderrstodenn.
                                  
                                    Acc siþþenn þatt te Laferrd Crist
                                    Line 14420 
                                  
                                    Ȝaff Haliȝ Gast onn erþe,
                                  
                                    All unnderrstod þurrh gastliȝ witt
                                  
                                    Hiss hird tatt ær wass cwiddedd;
                                  
                                    & swa wass waterr inntill win
                                  
                                    Turrnedd þurrh Cristess come.
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                                    Þiss middellærdess ald iss all
                                  
                                    O sexe daless dæledd.
                                  
                                    Fra þatt tatt Adam shapenn wass
                                  
                                    Anan till Noþess time,
                                  
                                    All þatt fresst off þiss werrldess ald
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                                    Wass all þe forrme time.
                                  
                                    & all þiss firrste timess fresst
                                  
                                    Wass opennliȝ bitacnedd
                                  
                                    I Cana Galile þurrh an
                                  
                                    Off þa stanene fe¯¯tless.
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                                    & all þiss firrste time wass
                                  
                                    Þurrh hallȝhe witess filledd

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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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