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

                                
                                  & tacc þe Crist, & tacc Adam
                                
                                  All an i bodiȝ kinde,
                                
                                  & tacc hemm baþe samenn forþ,
                                
                                  & sett hemm bi þe temmple
                                
                                  Þurrh tale off sexe & fowwerrtiȝ
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                                  Þatt falleþþ till hemm alle.
                                
                                  Forr Jesu Cristess bodiȝ wass
                                
                                  Inn wiþþ hiss moderr wambe
                                
                                  All shapenn rihht att fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  & sexe daȝhess ende;
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                                  & Godess temmple timmbredd wass,
                                
                                  & all fullbrohht till ende,
                                
                                  Wiþþinnenn ȝeress fowwerrtiȝ
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯t wiþþinnenn sexe;
                                
                                  & tale off sexe & fowwerrtiȝ
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                                  Wass þurrh Adam bitacnedd,
                                
                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd her,
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff þu¯¯t unnderrstanndesst.
                                
                                  & forr þatt Drihhtin wisste wel
                                
                                  Þatt Adam shollde gilltenn,
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                                  & shollde wurrþenn worrpenn u¯¯t
                                
                                  Off Paradysess riche
                                
                                  Inntill þiss middellærd, tatt iss
                                
                                  O fowwre daless dæledd,
                                
                                  Forrþi namm Godd, tatt witt tu wel,
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                                  Þe firrste stafess alle
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þa namess þatt he fand
                                
                                  Uppo þa fowwre daless,
                                
                                   [col 368] & sette uppo þe firrste mann
                                
                                  Hiss name off alle fowwre;

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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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