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 furth ȝit groued þai in adam
                                
                                  Fra noie till tyme of abraham,
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  Fra abraham ȝit stode þai þen
                                
                                  Vntill þe cumyng of moysen;
                                
                                  And nowþer flitted fer no nere, [folio 78b:2] 
                                
                                  And ilkone groued by þam self sere;
                                  Line 392 
                                
                                  Ane elne of lenkith þa wandes ware
                                
                                  And all þis time wex þai nomare,
                                
                                  Bot in astate ay war þai sene,
                                
                                  And euer grouand in like grene;
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  Lang efter þat tyme þus bifell
                                
                                  Þat þe childer of israel
                                
                                  Went with moyses thurght þe se,
                                
                                  Fra pharao and his menȝé,
                                  Line 400 
                                
                                  Þat mekill wa had to þam wroght,
                                
                                  And in grete bondage had þam broght;
                                
                                  Þai past þe se bath hale and sound,
                                
                                  And pharao and his men war dround;
                                  Line 404 
                                
                                  And when þaire fase war þus for-done
                                
                                  To þe vale of ebron come þai sone,
                                
                                  And als þai in þat dale gan dwell
                                
                                  Forther-mar þan þus bifell;
                                  Line 408 
                                
                                  Opon ane euyn als moyses ȝode
                                
                                  He saw whare þir thre wandes stode,
                                
                                  Þat are in adams mowth was sett,
                                
                                  And with grete honore he þam grett;
                                  Line 412 
                                
                                  "For suth," he said, "þir wandes mene
                                
                                  Þe trinité þam thre bitwene,
                                
                                  Þat on þis wise er samin sett,
                                
                                  For in þe rote all war þai mett."
                                  Line 416 
                                
                                  Þa wandes þan thoght he forto take
                                
                                  Wirschip to þam forto make;
                                
                                  And fra þe erth when he drogh þam out
                                
                                  So nobil smell was þam obout,
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  And so gude sauore gan þai fele,
                                
                                  Þat his men wend wonder wele

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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 73
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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