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

                                
                                  & all þatt borenn iss off Gast
                                
                                  Iss gast & gastess kinde.
                                
                                  Forr summ mann follȝheþþ all hiss flæsh
                                
                                  & all þe flæshess wille,
                                
                                  & summ mann follȝheþþ all hiss gast
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                                  & all þe sawless wille.
                                
                                  & tatt te Laferrd seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Till Nicodem wiþþ worde,
                                
                                  Ne þinnke þe nan wunnderr nu
                                
                                  Off þatt I þe nu seȝȝde,
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                                  Þatt ȝuw iss alle mikell ned
                                
                                  To wurrþenn borenn twiȝess;
                                
                                  Þatt seȝȝde he forr he wisste wel,
                                
                                  Þatt Nicodem ȝe¯¯t tanne
                                
                                  Ne wisste nohht, tatt aniȝ mann
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                                  Gastlike mihhte wurrþenn
                                
                                  Efft borenn her off Haliȝ Gast,
                                
                                  O Godess name fullhtnedd.
                                
                                  & forrþi toc he sone anan
                                
                                  To shæwenn himm whatt wise
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                                  Flæshlike mann maȝȝ wurrþenn gast
                                
                                  Þurrh Haliȝ Gastess bisne,
                                
                                  & seȝȝde þuss till Nicodem,
                                
                                  Swa summ þiss Goddspell kiþeþþ,
                                
                                  Gast ȝifeþþ witt & wille & mahht
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                                  Whatt mann se himm sellf god þinnkeþþ
                                
                                  To spellenn haliȝlike, & ec
                                
                                  To wirrkenn hallȝhe tacness.
                                
                                  & tu mahht herenn gastess rerd
                                
                                  Þær Godess þewwess spellenn;

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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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