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

                                
                                  Wiþþinnenn ȝeress fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯t wiþþinnenn sexe.
                                
                                  & tale off sexe & fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  Iss þurrh Adam bitacnedd,
                                
                                  Off whamm I toc mi bodiȝlich
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                                  Acc all wiþþutenn sinne.
                                
                                  Nu wile I, breþre, shæwenn ȝuw
                                
                                  Hu mann birrþ unnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Þe tale off sexe & fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh Adam all bitacnedd.
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                                  Adamess name Adam iss all
                                
                                  Wiþþ fowwre stafess spelldredd.
                                
                                  Þe firrste staff bitacneþþ an,
                                
                                  Þatt oþerr tacneþþ fowwre,
                                
                                  Þe þridde staff bitacneþþ an,
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                                  & fowwerrtiȝ þe ferþe.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þu takesst twiȝȝess an
                                
                                  & ekesst itt till fowwre,
                                
                                  Þu finndesst, butt a wunnderr be,
                                
                                  Þe fulle tale off sexe;
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                                  & tacc þu fra þe ferþe staff
                                
                                  Þe fowwerrtiȝ togeddre,
                                
                                  & tacc þu þe þe fowwerrtiȝ,
                                
                                  & sett hemm bi þe sexe,
                                
                                  & tacc þe sexe & fowwerrtiȝ,
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                                  Off fowwre stafess sammnedd,
                                
                                  & þurrh þa fowwre stafess iss
                                
                                  Adamess name spelldredd.
                                
                                  & tacc þe sexe & fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  All þuss þurrh Adam tacnedd,

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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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