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

                                
                                  & all iss sett i Cristess dom
                                
                                  Þatt æfre iss don onn erþe,
                                
                                  & Crist shall demenn all þatt beþ
                                
                                  O Domess daȝȝ to demenn.
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                                  & Cristess dom iss all rihht dom
                                
                                  & god onn alle wise,
                                
                                  Forr Crist iss alle shaffte Godd
                                
                                  & god inn all hiss kinde.
                                
                                  Acc þohh swa þehh Herodyas,
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                                  Þatt laþe wif, ne mihhte
                                
                                  Nohht forþenn hire modess will
                                
                                  Swa răþe summ ȝho wollde,
                                
                                  To cwellenn Godess þeww Johan,
                                
                                  To wrekenn hire tene.
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                                  Forr Drihhtin wisste whanne & hu
                                
                                  He wollde hiss dere kemmpe
                                
                                  Hiss mede ȝeldenn hunndreddfald
                                
                                  Forr hise gode dedess.
                                
                                  Acc he wass tăkenn þurrh þe king,
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                                  Swa summ icc habbe shæwedd,
                                
                                  & he wass i cwarrterrne don,
                                
                                  & bundenn pære & haldenn;
                                
                                  & tatt wass all forr hire don,
                                
                                  Swa summ þe Goddspell kiþeþþ,
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                                  Forr ȝho wass lef þe king, & he
                                
                                  Ne namm nan gom off sinne,
                                
                                  & wollde cwemenn hire swa,
                                
                                  & forþenn hire wille.
                                
                                  & her mann unnderrstanndenn maȝȝ,
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                                  Ȝiff mann itt ummbeþennkeþþ,

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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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