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

                                
                                  Off Johaness fulluhht, & off
                                
                                  Þatt fulluhht tatt te Laferrd
                                  Line 18205 
                                
                                  Bigunnenn haffde amang þe follc
                                
                                  Þurrh hise Lerninngcnihhtess.
                                
                                  & her uss unnderrstanndenn birrþ,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝ to sannenn tokenn
                                
                                  Ȝæn þa þatt létenn wel off Crist
                                  Line 18210 
                                
                                  & off hiss hallȝhe lare,
                                
                                  Onnȝæn þatt flocc þatt fullhtnedd wass
                                
                                  Þurrh Cristess Lerninngcnihhtess,
                                
                                  Ȝæn hemm bigunnenn all þurrh niþ
                                
                                  Johaness Lerninngcnihhtess
                                  Line 18215 
                                
                                  To sannenn fasste off Crist, & ec
                                
                                  Off Johan þeȝȝre maȝȝstre.
                                
                                  Forr þatt teȝȝ wolldenn bliþeliȝ
                                
                                  Harrdnenn, ȝiff þatt teȝȝ mihhtenn,
                                
                                  Þatt teȝȝre Bapptisstess fulluhht
                                  Line 18220 
                                
                                  Wass bettre, & hehre, & derre
                                
                                  Þann þatt tatt wass bigunnenn þa
                                
                                  Þurrh Crist færlike & newenn.
                                
                                  Þeȝȝ létenn þatt mann birrde bett
                                
                                  Till þeȝȝre maȝȝstre sekenn
                                  Line 18225 
                                
                                  Forr hiss fulluhht & forr hiss spell,
                                
                                  Þann till Crist sellf forr owwþerr,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt teȝȝre maȝȝstre wass
                                
                                  Þe firrste mann þatt æfre
                                
                                  Bigann to fullhtnenn aniȝ follc
                                  Line 18230 
                                
                                  Forr aniȝ sawle bote.
                                
                                  & forr þatt Crist ær haffde ben
                                
                                  Fullhtnedd att teȝȝre maȝȝstre,

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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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