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.

                                
                                  And wele he hopid, his hert with-in,
                                
                                  Þat it was for his fader sin,
                                
                                  Als þe steppes war þat he had sene;
                                
                                  Þat neuer bare none herbes grene, [folio 78] 
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  And all for þe sin of þam twa,
                                
                                  Þarfor he trowed þe tre was swa;
                                
                                  Al þis thoght when he had left,
                                
                                  In ogaine þan luked he eft,
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  And hastily þan gan he se
                                
                                  A meruaile of þe mekill tre;
                                
                                  Him thoght þat it stode vp ful euyn
                                
                                  And rechid on heght right to þe heuyn,
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  And bark inogh þar-on was sene
                                
                                  With leues þat was gay and grene;
                                
                                  And in þe crop of þat tre on hight
                                
                                  A litill childe he saw full right,
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  Lapped all in clathes clene,
                                
                                  Als it right þan born had bene,
                                
                                  So till his sight it semed ȝing,
                                
                                  He had grete meruaile of þis thing;
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  Vnto þe erth þan luked he
                                
                                  And saw þe rotes of þat same tre,
                                
                                  Weterly him thoght þai fell
                                
                                  In-to þe vtterest end of hell,
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  And þare him thoght he had a sight
                                
                                  Of his broþer saul ful right,
                                
                                  Abell þat was sakles slaine.
                                
                                  Þan to þe angell he went ogayne
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  And tald vnto him albidene,
                                
                                  Als he þare had herd and sene;
                                
                                  He pried þe angell tell him mare
                                
                                  Of þe childe þat he saw þare;
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Þe angell answerd him in hy,
                                
                                  And said what it suld signify;
                                
                                  "Þe childe þat þou saw in þe tre,
                                
                                  Þe sun of god for suth es he,

                                  Line 280

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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 69
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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