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.

                                
                                  ¶ þe lauedi bad, wiþ-outen lite,
                                
                                  iugement on him þai sulde giue tite,
                                
                                  for sicure was ho þan of site, [folio 89b] 
                                
                                  þat þe cristen man was quite.
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  þe iew was dampned, so at þe quene
                                
                                  sulde al his catel haue be dene,
                                
                                  In hir merci his tonge to take,
                                
                                  þat in hir presence suche wordis spake.
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  þe iew him þuȝt selcouþ tene
                                
                                  atte þis dome at was sa kene,
                                
                                  and saide on hiȝt, atte al muȝt here,
                                
                                  "me ware leuer ȝou to lere
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  quare lijs ȝour lordis rode tree,
                                
                                  þen þus smartli dampned be."
                                
                                  ¶ "god wate frende," þen saide eline,
                                
                                  "þou sal be quite of alle þi pine
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  if þou wil do as I. þe bid,
                                
                                  to shew vs quere þat cros is hid."
                                
                                  "lauedi," he saide, "be my lay,
                                
                                  þe soþ ȝet can I. noȝt say;
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  bot sette me a certaine day
                                
                                  þat wiþ my maistris speke I may,
                                
                                  I salle þe bringe tiþande of hit,
                                
                                  þe quilk bleþeli þou walde witt"
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  ¶ "Gladli," ho saide, "here I þe hiȝt
                                
                                  of a day respite and a niȝt;"
                                
                                  ¶ saide elaine, "certis bot þou hit finde
                                
                                  of baþ þine eien þou sal be blinde."
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  ¶ þe iew him sped tawarde his tide,
                                
                                  ouer his day durst he noȝt bide;
                                
                                  na selcouþ if he dred him sare,
                                
                                  he wiste þe quene walde him noȝt spare;
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  til hir he went better spede,
                                
                                  and saide, "lauedi I. knaw my dede,
                                
                                  priuely be-houis vs fare,
                                
                                  and folowes me wiþ-outen mare."

                                  Line 172

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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 112
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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