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 wirschipd als þai war worthy.
                                
                                  To rest he went es noght at laine,
                                
                                  And sone at morn he come ogaine;
                                  Line 532 
                                
                                  He fand his wandes hale and sownde
                                
                                  Ful fast grouand on þe grounde, [folio 79b] 
                                
                                  And þar-of grete wonder him thoght,
                                
                                  Bot remu þam þan wald he noght,
                                  Line 536 
                                
                                  For in his hert he trowed right
                                
                                  Þat þai war sett thurgh godis might;
                                
                                  Þar-fore he lete þam stand þare still,
                                
                                  And bad þat none suld negh þam till;
                                  Line 540 
                                
                                  And forto dwell with-outen dout
                                
                                  He made a stif wall þam obout,
                                
                                  Stalwurthly of lime and stane,
                                
                                  So þat negh to þam suld nane.
                                  Line 544 
                                
                                  Þe same lenkith ȝit war þai þare,
                                
                                  Als moyses in desert þam bare;
                                
                                  Bot þus when dauid sett þam has,
                                
                                  Þan wex þai so þat wonder was,
                                  Line 548 
                                
                                  Þe body wex in a hale tre
                                
                                  And þe crop was branches thre;
                                
                                  And for it wex so dauid made
                                
                                  A serkell al of siluer brade,
                                  Line 552 
                                
                                  And bad þat it suld sawded be
                                
                                  All obout þe haly thre,
                                
                                  Þat he might wit, with-outen were,
                                
                                  How mekill it wex ilka ȝere;
                                  Line 556 
                                
                                  For it wex grete thurgh goddes grace
                                
                                  And also lang in litill space;
                                
                                  In þat stede þan stode it þare
                                
                                  Threty ȝere and sumdele mare,
                                  Line 560 
                                
                                  And wex ful fast, I vnder-stand,
                                
                                  For þe tyme was nere cumand;
                                
                                  Þan dauid wex dreri in mode,
                                
                                  For in his hert he vnderstode
                                  Line 564 
                                
                                  Þat [he] a sinful man had bene

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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 77
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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