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.

                                
                                  Whare þir ilk thre wandes stode;
                                
                                  Vnto þe stede he went full euyn,
                                
                                  Als he was warned with god of heuyn;
                                  Line 496 
                                
                                  And when he of þe wandes had sight
                                
                                  He honord þam with all his might,
                                
                                  And toke þam vp out of grounde;
                                
                                  And swilk a smell þare was þat stounde,
                                  Line 500 
                                
                                  And noise and nobill melodi
                                
                                  Of diuers maners of minstralsy,
                                
                                  Þat dauid and his menȝé wend
                                
                                  Þe haly gaste had þare descend,
                                  Line 504 
                                
                                  So mekill mirth gan with þam mete
                                
                                  Of nobill noyse and sauore swete;
                                
                                  Þan dauid laid þa wandes in fere
                                
                                  In a kase al of siluer clere;
                                  Line 508 
                                
                                  He sang ful fast so was he faine
                                
                                  And on þis wise he went ogayne;
                                
                                  And als þai went so by þe strete,
                                
                                  Seke men many gan þai mete,
                                  Line 512 
                                
                                  All war þai helid in gude degré,
                                
                                  Thurgh vertu of þa wandes thre.
                                
                                  Dauid was ful glad and blith,
                                
                                  Vnto his cuntré come he swith;
                                  Line 516 
                                
                                  Þe nyend day efter hame come he
                                
                                  To ierusalem þe riche ceté,
                                
                                  Bot night it was thurgh goddes will
                                
                                  When þai come þe ceté vntill,
                                  Line 520 
                                
                                  On þe wandes had dauid thoght
                                
                                  With wirschip whare he sett þam moght,
                                
                                  And in a dike he did þam right
                                
                                  Biside his castell all þat night,
                                  Line 524 
                                
                                  And seker men he sett to wake,
                                
                                  So þat þai suld no harmes take;
                                
                                  On þe morn he thoght to seke a space
                                
                                  To plant þa wandes in honest place,
                                  Line 528 
                                
                                  Forto be keped honestly,

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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 76
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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