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

                                
                                  Þatt tiss Herode King wass an
                                
                                  Full ifell mann onn erþe,
                                
                                  Þatt haffde mikell wille & lusst
                                
                                  To slan Johan Bapptisste,
                                  Line 19920 
                                
                                  To slan þatt mann, — whamm all follc held
                                
                                  Forr haliȝ mann wiþþ alle,
                                
                                  & forr soþ Crist þatt þurrh Drihhtin
                                
                                  To manne cumenn wære,
                                
                                  & tokenn wel wiþþ hiss fulluhht,
                                  Line 19925 
                                
                                  & wiþþ hiss hallȝhe lare,
                                
                                  & wiþþ hiss bisne off haliȝ lif
                                
                                  Cnihhtess & publicaness,
                                
                                  & Farisewess, modiȝ follc,
                                
                                  & læredd follc & læwedd;
                                  Line 19930 
                                
                                  He wass all þwerrt u¯¯t ifell mann
                                
                                  Þatt wass forrlisst to cwellenn
                                
                                  Þatt mann, þatt all wass Godd bitahht
                                
                                  & full off Godess wille.
                                
                                  Þatt gillt himm wære gillt inoh
                                  Line 19935 
                                
                                   [col 426] To draȝh[enn] inntill helle,
                                
                                  Ȝiff he forrwurrpe þwerrt u¯¯t all
                                
                                  Johaness hallȝhe lare,
                                
                                  Þohh þatt he nohht ne léte himm slan
                                
                                  Wiþþutenn hise wrihhte.
                                  Line 19940 
                                
                                  Þatt kasstell — alls uss seȝþ soþ boc,
                                
                                  Wass hatenn Macherónnte
                                
                                  Þatt Sannt Johan wass inne don,
                                
                                  & i cwarrterrne worrpenn,

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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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