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.

                                
                                  Of þat fare þai war vnfaine,
                                
                                  And sune þai gat it doun ogayne
                                
                                  Eft þai toke þaire mesures þan,
                                
                                  And kuttes it als wele als þai can;
                                  Line 640 
                                
                                  "Do wind it vp" biliue þai bid,
                                
                                  Bot al was in waste þat þai did;
                                
                                  Þan was it schorter þan þe assise
                                
                                  Thrise wroght þai with it on þis wise;
                                  Line 644 
                                
                                  Acorde to þat werk wald it noght,
                                
                                  Þar-of þam all grete wonder thoght;
                                
                                  Þai cald þe king for he suld se
                                
                                  How þai had wroght with þat tre,
                                  Line 648 
                                
                                  For mekill tene was þam bitid,
                                
                                  Sen þai war al so crafty kid;
                                
                                  When salomon saw it was swa,
                                
                                  In-to þe temple he gert it ta,
                                  Line 652 
                                
                                  And bad þat it suld honowrd be,
                                
                                  For sum might trowed he in þat tre;
                                
                                  Anoþer balk þan haue þai soght,
                                
                                  And al þe werk till end þai wroght.
                                  Line 656 
                                
                                  Þe haly tre, on þis manere,
                                
                                  Lay in þe temple many a ȝere,
                                
                                  Twa pilers of þe kirk bitwene,
                                
                                  Þe king gert kepe it þare ful clene,
                                  Line 660 
                                
                                  And made þe custom in þat cuntré,
                                
                                  And bad þat ilka man suld be
                                
                                  In þat stede anes in ilka ȝere,
                                
                                  And ilkone on þaire best manere
                                  Line 664 
                                
                                  Þat haly tre forto honowre
                                
                                  Þat seþin bare oure sauioure.
                                
                                  So it bifell opon a ȝere
                                
                                  Al þe cuntré, fer and nere,
                                  Line 668 
                                
                                  Vnto ierusalem þai went
                                
                                  To honore þat tre with gude entent;
                                
                                  A woman was þare þam omang
                                
                                  Þat in hir hert ay hopid wrang;

                                  Line 672

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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 80
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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