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

                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt te pine iss lang & strang,
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                                  & swillc iss winess kinde,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt mann drinnkeþþ itt
                                
                                   [col 349] Att oferrdon, itt cwennkeþþ·
                                
                                  All þuss wass Johaness fulluhht
                                
                                  Wel þurrh þatt waterr tacnedd
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                                  Þatt warrþ i Cana Galile
                                
                                  Till win þurrh Cristess mahhte.
                                
                                  Forr þatt birrþ follȝhenn sone anan,
                                
                                  Son summ þe mann iss fullhtnedd,
                                
                                  Þatt he be bun forrþrihht anan
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                                  To þolenn dæþess pine,
                                
                                  All forr þe lufe off Jesu Crist
                                
                                  & forr þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  & all forrþi wass dæþess drinnch
                                
                                  Allræresst brohht & birrledd
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                                  Till þatt Johan off alle þa
                                
                                  Þatt turrndenn hemm till Criste,
                                
                                  Till fulluhht & till Crisstenndom
                                
                                  & till þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  & tatt bridaless hus wass all
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                                  Wiþþ þrinne bennkess bennkedd;
                                
                                  Forr þær wass an bennkinnge lah
                                
                                  & itt wass ferr fra waȝhe,
                                
                                  & oþerr wass abufenn þatt
                                
                                  & summ del ner þe waȝhe,
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                                  & þridde wass abufenn þatt
                                
                                  & itt wass bi þe waȝhe.

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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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