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

                                
                                  To cumenn dun wiþþ Godess word
                                
                                  To gladenn hire & frofrenn;
                                  Line 2180 
                                
                                  & tohh ȝho wass, forr þatt he comm
                                
                                  Inn aness weress hewe,
                                
                                  Forrshamedd, & forrdredd off himm,
                                
                                  Forr ȝho wass haliȝ maȝȝdenn.
                                
                                  Forr son se maȝȝdenn wurrþeþþ bald,
                                  Line 2185 
                                
                                  Ȝho wurrþeþþ sone unnþæwedd,
                                
                                  Forr kaggerrleȝȝc shall don þatt ȝho
                                
                                  Shall daffteleȝȝc forrwerrpenn.
                                
                                  Full wel birrþ ure maȝȝdenn ben
                                
                                  Forrshamedd, ȝiff mann brinngeþ
                                  Line 2190 
                                
                                  Biforenn hire unnþæwfull word
                                
                                  & wælinng word þurrh scaldess,
                                
                                  Ȝiff ure laffdiȝ Marȝe wass
                                
                                  Forrshamedd & forrdrefedd,
                                
                                  Þær enngell comm wiþþ gretinng word
                                  Line 2195 
                                
                                  Till hire o Godess hallfe.
                                
                                  & forr þatt ȝho ne wass næfrær
                                
                                  Wiþþ swillc gretinnge frofredd,
                                
                                  Ȝho toc wisliȝ to fraȝȝnenn himm
                                
                                  Whatt itt bitacnenn mihhte.
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                                  & forrþi þatt he sahh þatt ȝho
                                
                                  Wass drefedd off hiss spæche,
                                
                                  He toc to frofrenn hire anann
                                
                                  Cuþliȝ bi name, & seȝȝde;
                                
                                  Ne beo þu, Marȝe, nohht forrdredd,
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                                  Þin Godd arrt tu full deore.
                                
                                  & siþþenn seȝȝde he sone anan
                                
                                  Wiþþ all full openn spæche,

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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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