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.

                                
                                  So þat we mai noght negh it nere,
                                
                                  Bot-if we may with any gyn
                                
                                  Mak þam to do dedly syn;
                                
                                  Þan with þam wil I wun and wake,
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                                  For all þe crosses þat þai can make,
                                
                                  Bot I may neuer no man spill
                                
                                  With syn, bot-if þam seluin will;
                                
                                  Asay I sall, with sere sutelté,
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                                  To ger men syn and serue me."
                                
                                  Quiriak said þan to þe fende [folio 151b:1] 
                                
                                  "Þou wikked deuil þi way þou wende,
                                
                                  Vnto þe deppest hole of hell,
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                                  Euermore in dole to dwell;
                                
                                  For funden es now þe haly tre
                                
                                  Þat fellis þi pride and þi pousté."
                                
                                  Þe fendes þan with hidose cry
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                                  Vanist fro þam ful sudanly;
                                
                                  Þan went þai furth with meri mode
                                
                                  Vnto þaire temple þai bare þe rude.
                                
                                  Þan þe nobil quene Eline
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                                  Gert mak a case of syluer fyne,
                                
                                  With gold and precius stones plenté,
                                
                                  And closid þarin þat haly tre;
                                
                                  And on þe mount of caluary
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                                  Gert scho mak a kirk in hy,
                                
                                  And þore scho set þe haly tre
                                
                                  Of all men honord forto be;
                                
                                  And sone when it was þeder broght,
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                                  Fro sere sides men þeder soght,
                                
                                  And ful grete grace was þore schewd,
                                
                                  And grete releue to lerd and leude;
                                
                                  Thurgh cristen land so es it kend,
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                                  Þat fro þe fendes it mai us fend,
                                
                                  So þat þai may do us none ill,
                                
                                  Bot-if oure self assent þartill;
                                
                                  For in werld has he no 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 96
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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