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 dore of þe arche a-pon þe side,
                                
                                  and þer was ihesus wounded wide;
                                
                                  qua wil vm-þinke him in his mode
                                
                                  mai finde mani takenis of þe rode.
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  ¶ Our lorde gaf moises a wande
                                
                                  to wirke maistri wiþ in hande;
                                
                                  sum time was hit worme, sum time ȝerde,
                                
                                  as men I.-noghe has saide and herde
                                  Line 324 
                                
                                  þat wele be takenid. þat cipres,
                                
                                  þer-of was warnis[t] [MS. warms.]  moises,
                                
                                  baþ in worde and in dede.
                                
                                  quen israel of egipt ȝede,
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  of þat blessed lambis blode,
                                
                                  a cros was made in signe of rode;
                                
                                  þa at cros had on ham drawen, [folio 90b] 
                                
                                  our lorde ham sauid as for his awen;
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  and al þa oþer ware bot tint
                                
                                  and taȝt vn-to þe angels dint.
                                
                                  ¶ quen þe nedderes þat ware fel
                                
                                  stanged þe folk of israel,
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  quen þai welk in wildernes,
                                
                                  vnder þe warde of sir moyses,
                                
                                  a nedder was sette a-pon a tree,
                                
                                  þat quen þe stanged muȝt se
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  þe nedder on þe tree þer hange,
                                
                                  þai ware alle warisht of þaire stange.
                                
                                  ¶ quen þai saghe, as þai did oft,
                                
                                  moises lift his hende on loft,
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  þe quilist he helde his hende on croice,
                                
                                  ay herde his awen folk þe voice.
                                
                                  ¶ quen strife was a-boute presthede,
                                
                                  in þe dais a-mange þe iewes lede,
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  to xij. men taȝt þai wandes xij.,
                                
                                  ilkan merkid his him-selue,
                                
                                  and saide quilk wande beris blome
                                
                                  sulde haue þe presthede wiþ dome;

                                  Line 352

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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 117
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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