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

                                
                                  Þatt niss nan mann þatt cumenn maȝȝ
                                
                                  Upp inntill Godess riche,
                                
                                  Butt iff he be rihht laȝheliȝ
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                                  Efft borenn her onn erþe,
                                
                                  Off waterr & off Haliȝ Gast
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  All þatt tatt borenn iss off flæsh
                                
                                  Iss flæsh & flæshess kinde,
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                                  & all þatt borenn iss off Gast
                                
                                  Iss gast & gastess kinde.
                                
                                  Ne þinnke þe na wunnderr nu
                                
                                  Off — þatt I þe nu seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Þatt ȝuw iss alle mikell ned
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                                  To wurrþenn borenn twiȝess;
                                
                                  Gast ȝifeþþ herrte, & wille, & mahht,
                                
                                  Þær þær himm sellfenn likeþþ,
                                
                                  & tu mahht herenn gastess rerd
                                
                                  Wiþþ erþliȝ flæshess ære,
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                                  Acc þu ne mahht nohht witenn her
                                
                                  Þohhwheþþre o flæshliȝ wise,
                                
                                  Fra wheþennwarrd gast cumeþþ forþ
                                
                                  Ne whiderrwarrd he wendeþþ·
                                
                                   [col 372] & o þatt wise iss illc an mann
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                                  Weppmann & wimmann baþe,
                                
                                  Þatt borenn iss off Haliȝ Gast,
                                
                                  Loc ȝiff þu¯¯t unnderrstanndesst.
                                
                                  & Nicodem ȝaff sone þuss
                                
                                  Anndswere till þe Laferrd;

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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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