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

                                
                                  & all þiss þridde time wass
                                
                                  Þurrh hallȝhe witess filledd
                                
                                  Off staffliȝ witeȝhunngess drinnch
                                
                                  Þurrh writess & þurrh werrkess,
                                
                                  Rihht swa summ all þatt timess fresst
                                  Line 14640 
                                
                                  Off waterr filledd wære.
                                
                                  & itt wass turrnedd inntill win
                                
                                  Þurrh Jesu Cristess come,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt het¯¯ ȝaff hiss hallȝhe follc
                                
                                   [col 340] Gastlike tunnderrstanndenn.
                                  Line 14645 
                                
                                  & here iss o þiss boc off þatt
                                
                                  Stafflike witeȝhunnge
                                
                                  Þatt all þatt þridde time wass
                                
                                  Þurrh witess filledd offe,
                                
                                  Swa summ þatt þridde fetless wass
                                  Line 14650 
                                
                                  Brerdfull off waterr filledd.
                                
                                  & here I se summ del off þatt
                                
                                  Stafflike witeȝhunnge,
                                
                                  & icc itt wile shæwenn ȝuw
                                
                                  All forr ure allre nede.
                                  Line 14655 
                                
                                  Off Abraham wra¯¯t Moysæs
                                
                                  Þatt he wass Drihhtin cweme,
                                
                                  & haffde an sune þatt himm wass
                                
                                  U¯¯tnumennlike dere,
                                
                                  & he wass hatenn Ysaac,
                                  Line 14660 
                                
                                  Þatt witt tu wel to soþe.
                                
                                  & i þatt time þatt itt wass
                                
                                  Ȝe¯¯t swiþe ȝung onn elde

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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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