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 bestes þat went by þe strete,
                                  Line 744 
                                
                                  Suld cum and ga all ouer þat tre
                                
                                  So þat it suld wasted be;
                                
                                  For grete despite in hert þam thoght
                                
                                  Þat wonders thurgh it war wroght.
                                  Line 748 
                                
                                  Þus lay þis tre þare, als I tell,
                                
                                  Vntill þe sage quene, dame sibell,
                                
                                  Come to ierusalem on a ȝere,
                                
                                  Wisdom of salomon to here;
                                  Line 752 
                                
                                  And by þat side hir gate was graid
                                
                                  Whare þis haly tre was laid,
                                
                                  And sone when scho þar-of had sight
                                
                                  Scho honord it with all hir might,
                                  Line 756 
                                
                                  Kneland doune on aiþer kne,
                                
                                  Swilk vertu trowed scho in þe tre;
                                
                                  Hir clathes gert scho þar-on lig,
                                
                                  And bare fete went scho ouer þe brig;
                                  Line 760 
                                
                                  Thurgh prophecy þan þus scho said—
                                
                                  "Þis ilk tre þat here es laid
                                
                                  A verray signe wele may it seme
                                
                                  Of a domesman þat all sal deme,
                                  Line 764 
                                
                                  Als lord and maister moste mighty,
                                
                                  Þus may þis signe wele signify."
                                
                                  Scho lended þare ay whils hir list,
                                
                                  Grete wit of salomon scho wist;
                                  Line 768 
                                
                                  And seþin ogayne gan scho ga
                                
                                  To hir cuntré þat scho come fra,
                                
                                  And þat tre euer scho gan honowre
                                
                                  Þat seþin bare oure sauiowre; [folio 80b:2] 
                                  Line 772 
                                
                                  Þis haly tre lay in þat stede,
                                
                                  Vntill þat crist suld suffe[r] dede,
                                
                                  When dome was gifen ordand was he
                                
                                  Forto be hanged opon a tre,
                                  Line 776 
                                
                                  Þat als a cros þan suld be wroght;
                                
                                  On swilk a tre þan had þai thoght,
                                
                                  Sone a iew stode vp in hy,

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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 83
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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