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

                                
                                  Her hafe I nu biforenn ȝuw
                                
                                  Þa fowwre stafess nemmnedd
                                
                                  Þatt Drihhtin þurrh himm sellfenn toc,
                                
                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd,
                                
                                  U¯¯t off þa namess þatt he fand
                                  Line 16430 
                                
                                  Uppo þa fowwre daless,
                                
                                  Þatt lukenn all þiss middellærd
                                
                                  Wiþþinnenn þeȝȝre wengess.
                                
                                  Þe firrste staff iss nemmnedd A
                                
                                   [col 369] Onn ure Latin spæche;
                                  Line 16435 
                                
                                  Þatt oþerr staff iss nemmnedd DE;
                                
                                  Þe þridde iss A ȝehatenn;
                                
                                  Þe ferþe staff iss nemmnedd EMM
                                
                                  Onn ure Latin spæche.
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt tu cannst spelldrenn hemm,
                                  Line 16440 
                                
                                  Adám þu findesst spelldredd,
                                
                                  Þe name off þallre firrste mann
                                
                                  Þatt shapenn wass off erþe,
                                
                                  Þatt name þatt himm ȝifenn wass
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin, forr to tacnenn,
                                  Line 16445 
                                
                                  Þatt all hiss offspring shollde ben
                                
                                  Todrifenn & toskeȝȝredd
                                
                                  Inn all þiss middellærd tatt iss
                                
                                  O fowwre daless dæledd.
                                
                                  & forr þatt all Adamess stren
                                  Line 16450 
                                
                                  Todrifenn wass & skeȝȝredd
                                
                                  Inntill þiss wide middellærd
                                
                                  & inntill alle landess,

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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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