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

                                
                                  Þatt laþe wifess faderr wass
                                
                                  Aréte King ȝehatenn,
                                  Line 19830 
                                
                                  & he wass wurrþenn swiþe wraþ
                                
                                  Wiþþ hiss aþumm Filippe,
                                
                                   [col 425] & toc hiss doh[hterr all] forrþi
                                
                                  Forr wraþþe fra Filippe,
                                
                                  & ȝaff Herode King þatt wif
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                                  All forr Filippess tene,
                                
                                  Þatt tíme þatt Herode wass
                                
                                  Unnwine wiþþ Filippe;
                                
                                  Swa þatt he wass himm swiþe wraþ
                                
                                  Þohh þatt he wass hiss broþerr,
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                                  & toc hiss wif himm fra forrþi
                                
                                  Full bliþeliȝ forr tene.
                                
                                  & hire itt þuhhte swiþe god
                                
                                  Þatt ȝho wass wiþþ Herode,
                                
                                  Forrþi þatt ȝho wass ifell wif
                                  Line 19845 
                                
                                  & Drihhtin all unncweme.
                                
                                  & Sannt Johan Bapptisste comm
                                
                                  Biforr þe King Herode,
                                
                                  & seȝȝde himm þuss all opennliȝ,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
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                                  Ne birrþ þe nohht tin broþerr wiff
                                
                                  Þuss habbenn þe to wife
                                
                                  Whil þatt tin broþerr lifeþþ ȝe¯¯t,
                                
                                  Þu list inn hæfedd sinne.
                                
                                  & wel itt haffde Herodias
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                                  All herrd & unnderrstanndenn,

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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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