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

                                
                                  Swa þatt itt maȝȝ ben rihht inoh
                                
                                  To berrhless till þe sawle.
                                
                                  Forr nass nan mann þatt mihhte sen,
                                
                                  Ne cnawenn, nunnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  Þatt an Allmahhtiȝ Godd tatt iss
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                                  Þrimmnesse inn anfald kinde,
                                
                                  Butt iff þatt Godess Sune Crist
                                
                                  Itt dide himm tunnderrstanndenn,
                                
                                  Þurrh Haliȝ Gastess hallȝhe run
                                
                                  & þurrh hiss aȝhenn lare,
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                                  Þatt wise þatt erþlike mann
                                
                                  Maȝȝ gastlike unnderrstanndenn
                                
                                  & cnawenn Drihhtin Godd & sen
                                
                                  Wiþþ clennsedd sawless eȝhe;
                                
                                  Forr nass he næfre seȝhenn her
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                                  Þurrh erþliȝ flæshess eȝhe
                                
                                  Þatt wise þatt himm enngless sen
                                
                                  Inn hiss goddcunnde kinde.
                                
                                  Whatt Abraham, whatt Moysæs,
                                
                                  Whatt tiss & tatt profete,
                                  Line 19430 
                                
                                  Ne sæȝhenn þeȝȝ nohht Drihhtin Godd
                                
                                  Inn hiss goddcunnde kinde?
                                
                                  Na fuliȝwiss, ne sahh himm nan
                                
                                  Wiþþ erþliȝ flæshess eȝhe,
                                
                                  Þatt wise þatt himm enngless sen
                                  Line 19435 
                                
                                  Inn hiss goddcunnde kinde.
                                
                                  Hu shall mann unnderrstanndenn þatt
                                
                                  Þatt writenn stannt o boke,
                                
                                  Þatt hallȝhe weress sæȝhenn Godd
                                
                                  Her i þiss lif onn erþe?

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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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