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.

                                
                                  menskid wiþ his flesshe was þou,
                                
                                  of alle trees maste of vertu;
                                
                                  he has þe halghed at mast con ken,
                                
                                  and þe salle mensk al cristen men."
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  ¶ þis miracle sene wiþ mani man,
                                
                                  þai bare hit to þe temple þan;
                                
                                  þe Iewes to þe baptim ran,
                                
                                  þer was cristened mani a man.
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  quen þat cros was broȝt in
                                
                                  men muȝt se þinge is ȝet to myn,
                                
                                  for þat tree þat hit of was shorne,
                                
                                  as talde is in þis boke be-forne,
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  and al-wais in þat temple lay,
                                
                                  and ȝet was funden þer þat day;
                                
                                  hit ȝalde of hit sa squete a smel,
                                
                                  how gode hit was can I. noȝt tel;
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                                  þe smelle ouer al þe temple spred,
                                
                                  and þer-wiþ amendid ilka sted;
                                
                                  and bi þat smellinge muȝt man se
                                
                                  hit was shorne of þat ilk tree.
                                  Line 228 
                                
                                  ¶ a iew þat mikil had herde and sene,
                                
                                  he talde þe soþ vn-to þe quene,
                                
                                  and saide, his eldris talde him be dene,
                                
                                  quatkin a tree hit sulde haue bene;
                                  Line 232 
                                
                                  quen ho had herde al his resoun,
                                
                                  þen can ho make hir orisoun,
                                
                                  þat god witering sulde sende hir sone, [folio 90] 
                                
                                  whar ho sulde þat cros done.
                                  Line 236 
                                
                                  ¶ our lorde hir sende an angel wise,
                                
                                  and bad hir dele hit in foure partise;
                                
                                  þe tane sulde in þe temple lende,
                                
                                  to rome men sulde þe toþer sende,
                                  Line 240 
                                
                                  til alisaundre to bere þe þrid,
                                
                                  þe firþ to bere hir Seluin mid,
                                
                                  to costentine with hir to wende,
                                
                                  and alsqua did. þat lauedi hende.

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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 114
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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