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

                                
                                  Son summ þeȝȝ haffdenn herrd hiss spell
                                
                                  & seȝhenn hise tacness,
                                
                                  Þær i þe burrh off Ȝerrsalæm
                                
                                  Att teȝȝre Passkemesse,
                                  Line 16765 
                                
                                  Off þa þatt tokenn hemm till Crist
                                
                                  Hallflinngess, nohht wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  Acc swa þatt wel þeȝȝ mihhtenn himm
                                
                                  Efftsoness all forrwerrpenn,
                                
                                  Ȝiff þatt teȝȝ munndenn upponn himm
                                  Line 16770 
                                
                                  Ohht findenn forr to tælenn;
                                
                                  Off swillke wass þiss Nicodem
                                
                                  Þatt comm till ure Laferrd
                                
                                  O þessterr nahht, forr þatt wass don,
                                
                                  Forr þatt itt shollde tacnenn,
                                  Line 16775 
                                
                                  Þatt he nass nohht ȝe¯¯t tanne full
                                
                                  Off all þe rihhte trowwþe,
                                
                                  Noff Godess laress brihhte lem,
                                
                                  Noff rihhtwisnessess sunne;
                                
                                  Forr whatt he nass nohht derrf inoh
                                  Line 16780 
                                
                                  All opennliȝ to sekenn
                                
                                  Þe Laferrd Crist biforr þe follc,
                                
                                  To lofenn himm & wurrþenn.
                                
                                  Forr þurrh þatt tatt he seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Allræresst till þe Laferrd,
                                  Line 16785 
                                
                                  Maȝȝstre, we wi˘tenn sikerrliȝ
                                
                                  Þatt tu þurrh Godess wille
                                
                                  & all o Godess hallfe arrt sennd
                                
                                  Larfaderr her to manne,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh he dide uss opennliȝ
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                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn,

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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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