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.

                                  
                                    ¶ þat fande þe crois he hiȝt Iudas;
                                  
                                    made bisshop of þe toun he was,
                                  
                                    and his name was turnid þus,
                                  
                                    þat he was calde quiriacus:
                                    Line 464 
                                  
                                    ¶ quen fundin was þis hali crois,
                                  
                                    þe warlaghe saide on-loft with vois:—
                                  
                                    "a ha Iudas! quat has þou done,
                                  
                                    þou has me greued, I warne þee sone
                                    Line 468 
                                  
                                    at þou did þat cros kiþe,
                                  
                                    þou salle rew hit mani siþe;
                                  
                                    þorou hit ware mani saulis myne,
                                  
                                    þat I am ferde now to tyne;
                                    Line 472 
                                  
                                    noȝt for-þi I. wil noȝt nyte,
                                  
                                    ful wele I sal þi dedis quite; [MS. didis.] 
                                  
                                    a-noþer kinge gaine þe sal rise
                                  
                                    þat sal make þe to grise,
                                    Line 476 
                                  
                                    and do þe suffer sa mykil shame,
                                  
                                    at þou sal nite ihesu name;
                                  
                                    and þis was saide be tirand an.
                                  
                                    þat quiriac was of siþen slan:
                                    Line 480 
                                  
                                    ¶ þat findis cry quen Iudas herde,
                                  
                                    neuer þe mare was he ferde,
                                  
                                    bot waried he þat quiþer-wine,
                                  
                                    and saide, "crist þat is lorde myne,
                                    Line 484 
                                  
                                    he deme þe in-to helle depe,
                                  
                                    euer in wellande wa to wepe."
                                  
                                    Þat hali crois, I of haue red,
                                  
                                    quar-on ihesus for vs was spred,
                                    Line 488 
                                  
                                    hit is our shilde and our spere,
                                  
                                    againis þe feinde for to were;
                                  
                                    ilk day in were we weinde
                                  
                                    bot þat ihesu vs grace sende,
                                    Line 492 
                                  
                                    þorou þe crois a-gaine þe fende
                                  
                                    to be our socour at our ende.

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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 121
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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