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.

                                
                                  Bot wikkedly þus gan he wirk.
                                  Line 28 
                                
                                  Saint Eline þe nobill quene,
                                
                                  Þat lang bifore his tyme had bene,
                                
                                  Fand þe cros [MS. cors.]  þat men cald þe rode,
                                
                                  Þat ihesuc died on for oure gude,
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  And to ierusalem scho it broght,
                                
                                  And graithed it þare als hir gude thoght,
                                
                                  In siluer and go[l]d al bidene,
                                
                                  For þat it suld be kepid clene,
                                  Line 36 
                                
                                  And þat same kirk gert scho make
                                
                                  Coriosly for þat cros sake,
                                
                                  For men suld hald þat haly tre
                                
                                  In honore als it aw to be.
                                  Line 40 
                                
                                  Bot þis ilk king chosdroass [MS. choso|roass.] ,
                                
                                  When he wist whare þis ilk cros was,
                                
                                  He gert his men with grete maystry
                                
                                  Haue it forth with him in hy
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  Out of ierusalem ceté,
                                
                                  And broght it whare him liked to be.
                                
                                  When he was þus cumen hame ogayn,
                                
                                  Of his iorné he was ful fayne,
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  And hastili þan [MS. þant.]  gert he dight
                                
                                  A faire toure all off siluer bright;
                                
                                  He made it nobilly for þe nanes,
                                
                                  Within all ful of precius stanes.
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  A trone of gold þarin he sett,
                                
                                  With precius stanes all ouer plett,
                                
                                  And þarein gert he gayly dyght,
                                
                                  Like son and mone and sternes bright;
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  Also zit gert he mak þarin
                                
                                  Propirtese by preué gyn,
                                
                                  Þat it was like untill a heuyn; [folio 177b:2] 
                                
                                  And rayn þarfro cumand ful euyn
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  And preué whistils war omang
                                
                                  Made euyn like to angels sang.
                                
                                  Þare in þat toure als him gude thoght,

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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 123
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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