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 bare þam to þe riche ceté;
                                
                                  Ful mikel folk come þam ogayne
                                
                                  And of þare fare þai war ful fayne;
                                
                                  And on a bere þore gun men bring
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                                  A ded bodi vnto þe beryiing.
                                
                                  Quiriak bad þam þat it bare
                                
                                  Set doune þe bere omang þam þare,
                                
                                  So forto proue þare, or þai pas,
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                                  Whilk of þa crosses cristes was;
                                
                                  Quiriak fast vnto god prayd
                                
                                  And ane cros to þe cors he layd,
                                
                                  And sethin ane oþer he laid þartill,
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                                  Bot ȝit euer lay þe bodi styll;
                                
                                  Þe thrid cros þan he toke forþi
                                
                                  And layd it vnto þe ded body,
                                
                                  And als sune als it neghed nere
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                                  Þe cors rase up, both hale and fere;
                                
                                  And al þe folk þat saw þat sight
                                
                                  Loued god, with al þaire might;
                                
                                  And so þai past into þe toun,
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                                  With a fful fayre processioune;
                                
                                  Al loued þai god, with ioyful mode,
                                
                                  And saynt elyn scho bare þe rode;
                                
                                  Þan sone omang þam herd þai ȝell
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                                  A ful grete dyn of deuils of hell;
                                
                                  Þai cried, "allas and wayloway,
                                
                                  For dole what sal we do þis day;
                                
                                  Þe tre es funden whilk we suppose
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                                  Sall ger vs all oure pouwer lose,
                                
                                  For we haue power in no place,
                                
                                  Whore men on þam þat takin mase;
                                
                                  Now mun oure power fro us pas,
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                                  Wo wurth þe while it funden was!
                                
                                  For fro þat figure bihoues vs fle
                                
                                  So with man-kind ouercumen er we;
                                
                                  It puttes oway all oure powere,

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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 95
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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