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.

                                
                                  Þat þai had bene cumen right,
                                
                                  To þe land of hest þat þam was hight;
                                  Line 424 
                                
                                  Al his folk þai war ful fayne
                                
                                  And loued god with might and mayne:
                                
                                  Moyses toke þa wandes schene;
                                
                                  And lapped þam in clathes clene,
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  And als a relik obout þam bare,
                                
                                  With wirschip, als þai worthy ware:
                                
                                  Ay whils þai dwelled so in fere,
                                
                                  And þat was foure and fourty ȝere,
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  And all þat war with wormes smeten,
                                
                                  Or els with wilde bestes beten,
                                
                                  And þai might neght þa wandes nere
                                
                                  Þai suld als fast be hale and fere,
                                  Line 436 
                                
                                  So þat defaut suld þai find nane,
                                
                                  Thurgh towcheing of þe wandes allane:
                                
                                  So it bifell þe folk had care [folio 79] 
                                
                                  For þat þam wanted water þare,
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  And in þaire hertes þai bigan
                                
                                  To be mis-trowand ilka man,
                                
                                  To god þai groched al bidene;
                                
                                  And moyses said to þam in tene,
                                  Line 444 
                                
                                  "Mistrowand men herkins to me,
                                
                                  If ȝe in trowth will stedefast be,
                                
                                  We sall gett water grete wane
                                
                                  Here out of þis hard stane."
                                  Line 448 
                                
                                  For god had bidden him on þis wise
                                
                                  Þat he suld strike on þe flint twise,
                                
                                  And largely þan suld it gif
                                
                                  Water þat þai with might lif;
                                  Line 452 
                                
                                  Þan with his wand þe stane strake he
                                
                                  And water went out grete plenté,
                                
                                  Þat men and bestes had þaire fill
                                
                                  Of water at þaire awin will;
                                  Line 456 
                                
                                  And for moyses toke all þe mede
                                
                                  And loued noght god for his gude dede,

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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 74
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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