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

                                
                                  Þatt all mannkinn wass swa forrdon
                                
                                  Þurrh Adam & þurrh Eve,
                                
                                  Þatt itt ne mihhte næfre mar
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                                  Ben lesedd fra þe defell.
                                
                                  & forr þiss illke wass Johan
                                
                                  Bapptisste sennd to manne,
                                
                                  To berenn wittness off þatt lem
                                
                                  Þatt shollde cumenn newenn.
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                                  & nass he nohht himm sellf þatt lem
                                
                                  Þatt he wass sennd to spellenn;
                                
                                  Acc he barr wittness i þe follc
                                
                                  Þatt soþ lihht cumenn shollde,
                                
                                  Þatt alle mihhtenn þurrh hiss spell,
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                                  Ȝiff þeȝȝ hemm sellf ne wolldenn,
                                
                                  O Godess Sune, o Godess Word
                                
                                  Wiþþ fulle trowwþe lefenn.
                                
                                  Þatt lihht wass witerrliȝ soþ lihht
                                
                                  Þatt lihhteþþ here onn erþe
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                                  Illc an lifisshe mann mennissh
                                
                                  Þatt cumeþþ her to manne.
                                
                                   [col 413] Forr iwhillc mann, þatt lihhtedd iss
                                
                                  Þurrh lihht off rihhte læfe,
                                
                                  Illc an iss lihhtedd þurrh þatt lihht
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                                  Þatt Crist to manne brohhte,
                                
                                  Þurrh fulluhht & þurrh Crisstenndom,
                                
                                  & þurrh þe rihhte læfe.
                                
                                  Þatt iss þatt soþe lihht & lem
                                
                                  Þatt ledeþþ upp till 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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