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

                                
                                  Þatt maȝȝ þe slekkenn wel þin þirrst
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt te þirrsteþþ·
                                
                                   [col 343] & ȝiff þu þiss þurrh Haliȝ Gast
                                  Line 14840 
                                
                                  Deplikerr unnderrstanndesst,
                                
                                  Þatt Moysæs iss Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Þatt ledde þurrh himm sellfenn
                                
                                  Mannkinn u¯¯t off Egippte land,
                                
                                  Off sinness þessterrnesse,
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                                  U¯¯t off Faraoness þewwdom,
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þe defless walde,
                                
                                  & þurrh þe waterr off þe funnt
                                
                                  Þær alle sinness drunncnenn
                                
                                  Þe defless ferd, tatt tacnedd wass
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                                  Þurrh Faraoness genge,
                                
                                  Þatt wass offdrunncnedd i þe sæ
                                
                                  Forr here depe sinness,
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Oppnede þurrh hiss come
                                  Line 14855 
                                
                                  Off all þe Judewisshe boc
                                
                                  Þe depe diȝhellnesse,
                                
                                  & dide itt hise þewwess all
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  All all swa summ þe sæ wass þær
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                                  Dun till þe grund toworrpenn,
                                
                                  Swa þatt teȝȝ o þe driȝȝe grund
                                
                                  Wel sæȝhenn openn weȝȝe,
                                
                                  Þa takesst tu gastlike witt
                                
                                  Off staffliȝ witeȝhunnge,

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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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