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

                                
                                  & badd he shollde ledenn hemm
                                
                                  Wiþþ all þatt tatt teȝȝ haffdenn
                                
                                  Inntill þe land off Ȝerrsalæm,
                                
                                  To biggenn þær i lande.
                                
                                  & Moysæs all dide swa
                                  Line 17405 
                                
                                  Summ Drihhtin bedenn haffde,
                                
                                  & alls he comm wiþþ all þe follc
                                
                                  Inntill a wilde wesste,
                                
                                  Þa wass þatt laþe wesste all full
                                
                                  Off aness kinness neddress,
                                  Line 17410 
                                
                                  Þatt wærenn alle samenn þær
                                
                                  Off swillc firene kinde,
                                
                                  Þatt whase stungenn wass þurrh hemm
                                
                                  He swallt þurrh firess wunde.
                                
                                  & Drihhtinn spacc wiþþ Moysæn
                                  Line 17415 
                                
                                  Þær i þatt laþe wesste,
                                
                                  & badd he shollde melltenn brass
                                
                                  & ȝetenn himm a neddre,
                                
                                  & berenn itt upp onn a tre
                                
                                  Biforenn hise lede,
                                  Line 17420 
                                
                                  Þatt whase stungenn wære off hemm
                                
                                  Þurrh þa firene neddress,
                                
                                  He shollde sone lokenn upp
                                
                                  O þatt brasene neddre,
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt he sæȝhe þæronn
                                  Line 17425 
                                
                                  He shollde takenn bote,
                                
                                  & shollde wurrþenn hæledd swa
                                
                                  Off þatt firene wunde.
                                
                                  & Moysæs all dide þa
                                
                                  Swa summ himm Drihhtin tahhte,

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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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