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

                                
                                  Mycrocossmós, þatt nemmnedd iss
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                                  Affterr Ennglisshe spæche
                                
                                  Þe little werelld, all forrþi
                                
                                  Forr þatt te manness sawle
                                
                                  Iss shridd þurrh Godd wurrþlike & wel
                                
                                  Wiþþ god & wurrþfull kinde,
                                  Line 17600 
                                
                                  All all swa summ þiss werelld iss
                                
                                  Wel shridd wiþþ scone shafftess.
                                
                                  & ec þe werelld tacnenn maȝȝ
                                
                                  Mannkinn all þess te bettre
                                
                                  Þatt manness bodiȝ feȝedd iss
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                                  & wrohht off fowwre shafftess,
                                
                                  Off heffness fir, & off þe lifft,
                                
                                  Off waterr, & off erþe.
                                
                                  & forrþi shall þe werelld her
                                
                                  Bitacnenn mannkinn ane
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                                  Þatt Godess word wass sennd þurrh Godd
                                
                                  To lesenn u¯¯t off helle.
                                
                                  & off þe manness Sune, & ec
                                
                                  Off Godess Sune, off baþe
                                
                                  Her seȝȝde Crist till Nicodem
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                                  All an i þise wordess,
                                
                                  Þatt whase trowwenn shall onn himm
                                
                                  Wel muȝhe wurrþenn borrȝhenn.
                                
                                  & tatt wass seȝȝd alls iff he þuss
                                
                                  Wiþþ openn spæche seȝȝde,
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                                  To þann comm icc off heffne dun
                                
                                  To wurrþenn mann onn erþe,
                                
                                  Þatt whase trowwenn shall onn me,
                                
                                  & mine laȝhess haldenn,

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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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