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.

                                
                                  Wharon þi self wald suffer dede,
                                
                                  If it be hid here in þis stede."
                                
                                  Als Iudas þus gun his prayers make,
                                
                                  Þe hill obouen bigan to quake,
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                                  And þarof rase a ful grete reke,
                                
                                  Bot þat was ful wele smelland smeke;
                                
                                  Ful mekil mirth was þam omell,
                                
                                  Fo[r] neuer man feld swetter smell;
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                                  Þan Iudas fast bigan to cry,
                                
                                  And he said ful stedfastly,
                                
                                  In veritate, christe, tu es redemptor mundi,
                                
                                  "In suthfastnes, lord criste, I trow,
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                                  Þe sauioure of þis werld es þow,
                                
                                  Þat born was of þe mayden chaste,
                                
                                  And sall be euer of mightes maste;
                                
                                  Vnto þi law I wil me take,
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                                  And þe Ieus law euer I forsake."
                                
                                  Þan cristen man þai gan him mak
                                
                                  And turned his name to Quiriak,
                                
                                  Sethin was he Bisschop in hali kirk,
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                                  And hali werkis oft gun he wirk.
                                
                                  Þai biheld whore þe smel come out,
                                
                                  And fast grubed þai þore obout;
                                
                                  So depe þai grubbed and so fast,
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                                  Thre crosses fand þai at þe last;
                                
                                  Ane of crist both large and lang,
                                
                                  And oþer two þat theues on hang,
                                
                                  Bot þore was noman þat knew
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                                  Whilk was þe cros of ihesu.
                                
                                  Þan Quiriak prayd, with hert and hend,
                                
                                  Þat god suld þam þe nailes send
                                
                                  Þat nayled crist þe rude vnto;
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                                  And sune when he had prayed so
                                
                                  Thre nayles aperd vnto þare sight, [folio 151:2] 
                                
                                  In þe erth schineand ful bright;
                                
                                  Þai toke thre nayles and crosses thre

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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 94
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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