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

                                
                                  Hu shall mann unnderrstanndenn þiss,
                                
                                  Whatt gate maȝȝ þiss wurrþenn?
                                
                                  & ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Himm ȝaff anndswere, & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Whatt gate arrt tu forr maȝȝstre tald
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                                  Inn Issraæle þede,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt tu nohht ne cannst off þiss
                                
                                  Þatt icc her habbe shæwedd?
                                
                                  To fulle soþ I segge þe,
                                
                                  We spellenn þatt we cunnenn,
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                                  & tatt we sæȝhenn opennliȝ
                                
                                  Þærto we wittness sinndenn,
                                
                                  & tohh swa þehh niss ȝuw nohht off
                                
                                  To tăkenn ne to trowwenn
                                
                                  Þatt wittness, þatt we berenn forþ
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                                  Off þatt we wissliȝ sæȝhenn.
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt I spacc off erþliȝ þing,
                                
                                  & ȝe¯¯t rihht nohht ne trowwenn,
                                
                                  Hu shule ȝe me trowwenn wel,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt I mæle
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                                  Till ȝuw off hefennlike þing,
                                
                                  Þatt all iss dep & dærne?
                                
                                  & niss nan mann þatt stiȝheþþ upp
                                
                                  Inntill þe burrh off heffne,
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn himm þatt stah forr menn
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                                  Off heffne dun till erþe,
                                
                                  Þe manness Sune fuliwiss
                                
                                  Þatt wuneþþ upp inn heffne.
                                
                                  & all all swa se Moysæs
                                
                                  Hof upp þe neddre i wesste,

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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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