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

                                
                                  & tatt tatt Nicodem ȝaff þuss
                                
                                  Anndswere till þe Laferrd,
                                
                                  Hu maȝȝ ald mann ben borenn her
                                
                                   [col 378] Efftsoness off hiss moderr,
                                  Line 17115 
                                
                                  Þatt doþ uss tunnderrstanndenn wel
                                
                                  Þatt he wass ȝe¯¯t unnlæredd
                                
                                  Off þatt, tatt Jesu Cristess þeww
                                
                                  Birrþ borenn ben efftsoness
                                
                                  Off Haliȝ Gast, þurrh haliȝ funnt
                                  Line 17120 
                                
                                  O Godess name fullhtnedd.
                                
                                  & allswa summ þe mann ne maȝȝ
                                
                                  Nohht wurrþenn borenn twiȝess
                                
                                  Off moderr & off faderr stren,
                                
                                  To cumenn her to manne,
                                  Line 17125 
                                
                                  Allswa ne birrþ nohht Cristess þeww
                                
                                  O Cristess name wurrþenn
                                
                                  Twa siþess borenn att te funnt,
                                
                                  Ne wurrþenn twiȝess fullhtnedd,
                                
                                  To cumenn upp till heffness ærd,
                                  Line 17130 
                                
                                  Upp inntill eche blisse,
                                
                                  Þohh þatt he be þurrh defless þeww
                                
                                  O Godess name fullhtnedd.
                                
                                  & tatt tatt Godess þeww maȝȝ wel
                                
                                  Þurrh defless þeww ben fullhtnedd,
                                  Line 17135 
                                
                                  Þatt wass bitacnedd opennliȝ
                                
                                  Þurrh Abrahamess bisne.
                                
                                  Forr all allswa summ Abraham
                                
                                  Strenede chilldre off baþe,
                                
                                  Off aþell wif, & off ammbohht,
                                  Line 17140 
                                
                                  Allswa Drihhtin off heffne

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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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