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

                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass cumenn all þurrh Godd
                                
                                  Larfaderr her to manne,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh wass séne, þatt he þa
                                  Line 16880 
                                
                                  Summwhatt bigunnenn haffde
                                
                                  To lefenn o þe Laferrd Crist
                                
                                  Þatt wise þatt himm birrde.
                                
                                  Forr þatt wass soþ þatt Crist wass sennd
                                
                                  Þurrh Drihhtin Godd off heffne,
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                                  To wurrþenn mann o moderr hallf
                                
                                  Forr all mannkinne nede;
                                
                                  & Crist wass wiss Larfaderr god
                                
                                  & Maȝȝstre off all maȝȝstress.
                                
                                  Þær seȝȝde Nicodem full soþ
                                  Line 16890 
                                
                                  Off Crist & off hiss come.
                                
                                  Þiss Nicodem bitacnenn maȝȝ,
                                
                                  Þatt witt tu wel to soþe,
                                
                                  Þatt lede þatt primmseȝȝnedd iss
                                
                                  & iss ȝe¯¯t all unnfullhtnedd,
                                  Line 16895 
                                
                                  & iss all, alls itt wære, ȝe¯¯t
                                
                                  I nahhtess þessterrnesse,
                                
                                  Whil þatt itt nunnderrstanndeþþ nohht
                                
                                  All þwerrt u¯¯t wel wiþþ alle
                                
                                  Þe depe lare off Godess boc
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                                  Wiþþ all þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  & forr þatt he trowwede wel,
                                
                                  Swa summ himm sellf itt seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Þatt Crist wass cumenn all þurrh Godd
                                
                                  & all o Godess hallfe,
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                                  & comm þohhwheþþre o nahht till Crist
                                
                                  Stilliȝ wiþþ himm to mælenn,

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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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