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.

                                
                                  say vs how þou wil him diȝt
                                
                                  and we salle giue þe dome ful riȝt."
                                
                                  ¶ "how," saide þe iew, "bot be my lay,
                                
                                  þat werst þat euer I. can or may,
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                                  his eien first putt out I. sal
                                
                                  and his hende smite of wiþ-al;
                                
                                  tonge and neise wil I. noȝt saue,
                                
                                  til atte I al my couenande haue."
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                                  ¶ þe messagers him gaf ansquare
                                
                                  "þen semis hit noȝt þou wil him spare,
                                
                                  take þou þe flesse we deme þe,
                                
                                  squa atte þe blode mai sauid be;
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                                  a drope of blode if atte þou tine
                                
                                  we gif ȝou dome, þe wrange is þine;
                                
                                  al if his flesshe was salde and boȝt
                                
                                  his blode to selle neuer he þoȝt;
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                                  þe fallis þe flesshe, we ar wele knawen,
                                
                                  kepe him þe blode þat is his awen."
                                
                                  ¶ þen saide þat iew, "be saint driȝtine
                                
                                  me þink þe wers part is mine;
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                                  to take þe flesshe if I. assay
                                
                                  þen þe blode wil ryn a-way;
                                
                                  for-done ȝe haue me wiþ ȝour dome,
                                
                                  and þat make ȝe romains of rome;
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                                  maugrefe þer-fore mote ȝe haue,
                                
                                  alle þat suche a dome me gaue."
                                
                                  ¶ benciras þen saide, "parfay
                                
                                  alle has þis court herde þe missay,
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                                  me and my felaw sir ansiere;
                                
                                  þou has missaide riȝt foule here,
                                
                                  we wil missay þe na wiȝt,
                                
                                  bot ellis of þe we wil haue riȝt;
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                                  þe lauedi, for ho did vs leue,
                                
                                  ho bad vs riȝtli dome to giue,
                                
                                  and þe soþ we haue þe saide,
                                
                                  þer-fore þou dos vs now vpbraide."

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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 111
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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