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

                                
                                  Soþ mann, wiþþutenn faderr stren,
                                
                                  Off clene maȝȝdenn kennedd.
                                
                                  & we þatt tokenn wel wiþþ himm
                                
                                  Þurrh lufe & ec þurrh trowwþe,
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                                  We sæȝhenn wel þatt he wass full
                                
                                  Off ædmodnesse & are,
                                
                                  & ec off soþfasstnessess mahht
                                
                                  Inn ure mennisscnesse.
                                
                                  Þiss wra¯¯t uss upponn hiss Goddspell
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                                  Johan þe Goddspellwrihhte,
                                
                                  Forr þatt he wollde don uss wel
                                
                                  To sen & tunnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Þatt swa wass Crist soþ Godd tatt he
                                
                                  Wass þohh soþ mann off moderr,
                                  Line 19280 
                                
                                  Þatt Godd wass mann, & mann wass Godd,
                                
                                  An had off þrinne kinde,
                                
                                  Inn ure Laferrd Jesu Crist
                                
                                  Þatt cumenn wass to manne,
                                
                                  To ben bitwenenn menn & Godd,
                                  Line 19285 
                                
                                  To sahhtlenn hemm & sammnenn.
                                
                                  Forr þurrh þatt Crist wass mann wiþþ menn,
                                
                                  & ȝaff hiss lif o rode,
                                
                                  Þær þurrh wass Adam & hiss kinn
                                
                                  U¯¯tlesedd fra þe defell.
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                                  & þurrh þatt Crist wass Godd wiþþ Godd
                                
                                  & Godess Sune off heffne,
                                
                                  Þær þurrh he wann att Godd tatt he
                                
                                  Forrȝaff mannkinn hiss wraþþe.
                                
                                  & forrþi wass þe Laferrd Crist
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                                  All þwerrt u¯¯t full off baþe,

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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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