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

                                
                                  Forr þatt menn sholldenn cumenn forþ
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                                  & offrenn þess te mare,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt menn sholldenn findenn itt
                                
                                  All rædiȝ þær to biggenn.
                                
                                  & menn wiþþ sillferr sætenn þær
                                
                                  To lenenn itt te lede,
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                                  Þatt sillferr wære rædiȝ þær
                                
                                  Till þa þatt wolldenn offrenn,
                                
                                  & ec till þa þatt wolldenn ohht
                                
                                  Biggenn till þeȝȝre lakess;
                                
                                  & þurrh þe prestess wære þeȝȝ
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                                  Sette to lenenn sillferr.
                                
                                  Þatt Crist himm wrohhte an swepe þær
                                
                                  All alls itt wære off wiþþess,
                                
                                  & draf hemm alle samenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  & nowwt & sowwþess alle,
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                                  & tatt he warrp u¯¯t i þe flor
                                
                                  Þe bordess & te sillferr,
                                
                                   [col 359] Þatt dide he forr to don hemm swa
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Whatt læn þeȝȝ sholldenn unnderrfon
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                                  Att Godd forr swillke dedess.
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd wrohhte an swepe þær
                                
                                  All alls itt wære off wiþþess,
                                
                                  To tacnenn þatt hemm ȝarrkedd wass
                                
                                  Stranng pine i defless wiþþess,
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                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ turrndenn Godess hus
                                
                                  Inntill huccsteress boþe.

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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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