Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.

                                
                                  Þe oyle of mercy sal he gif
                                
                                  Till all þat in his law will lif;
                                
                                  And till all þat will sese of sin
                                
                                  Sal he gif blis þat neuer sal blin;
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                                  Þan sall þi fader cum fra paine
                                
                                  And dwell in paradis ogayne;
                                
                                  Þarfore if þou þi fader se
                                
                                  Say him als I haue said to þe,
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                                  'His daies er dreuen vnto þe end,
                                
                                  Langer in þis life may he noght lend.'
                                
                                  Bot first now, or þou wend oway,
                                
                                  Sall þou do als I þe say;
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                                  Wende vnto paradis ȝate
                                
                                  And put in bot þi heuid þarate,
                                
                                  And lat þi body stand þaroute,
                                
                                  And luke what þou sese þe obout;
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                                  And if þou any selkuth se
                                
                                  Cum ogayne and tell to me."
                                
                                  Seth went and did on þis manere,
                                
                                  And saw ful many selkuthes sere;
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                                  He herd þare noyse and nobill smell,
                                
                                  Swetter þan any tong might tell;
                                
                                  Gay herbes and trese þare gan he se,
                                
                                  And fowles sang ful grete plenté;
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                                  In middes of paradis saw he right
                                
                                  A well þat was schinand ful bright,
                                
                                  Of þe whilk foure flodes ran out,
                                
                                  And went ouer al þe werld obout;
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                                  He saw of þa foure flodes clere
                                
                                  Come al þe water in þis werld here;
                                
                                  Obouen þe well persayued he
                                
                                  Whare þare stode a ful faire tre,
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                                  With branches þaron maniane,
                                
                                  Bot bark ne lefe ne had it nane;
                                
                                  Þan had seth meruail in his mode
                                
                                  Whi þat tre so naked stode;

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Title: Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
Canvas: Page 68
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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