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

                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde lesenn hemm
                                
                                  U¯¯t off pewwdomess bandess,
                                
                                  Þatt Faraon, Egippte king,
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                                  Hemm haffde worrpenn inne.
                                
                                  & Moysæs ræw off þatt follc
                                
                                  Þatt swa wass haldenn harrde,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt wass hiss aȝhenn kinn
                                
                                  Þatt he wass borenn offe.
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                                  & onn an nahht he toc þatt follc
                                
                                  All samenn, alde & ȝunge,
                                
                                  & were & wif, & cherl & child,
                                
                                  & ledde hemm u¯¯t off lande,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde hemm brinngenn u¯¯t
                                  Line 14790 
                                
                                  Off Faraoness hæse.
                                
                                  & Faraon wiþþ all hiss ferd
                                
                                  Comm affterrwarrd wiþþ wraþþe,
                                
                                  & wollde cwellenn Moysæn
                                
                                  & alle þatt he ledde.
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                                  & sæ wass þær biforenn hemm
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ flen ne mihhtenn;
                                
                                  & Drihhtin þær toclæf þe sæ
                                
                                  Alls iff itt waterr nære,
                                
                                  & sett itt upp onn eȝȝþerr hallf
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                                  All allse tweȝȝenn walless,
                                
                                  & tær bitwenenn wass þe sand
                                
                                  All harrd to ganngenn onne.
                                
                                  & Godess follc strac inn anan
                                
                                  Uppo þe driȝȝe sandess,
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                                  To flen fra Faraon þe king
                                
                                  Þatt wollde hemm alle cwellenn.

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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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