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.

                                
                                  A sege untill him self he wroght,
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  And þare he gert with mekill pride
                                
                                  Set þe haly cros him biside.
                                
                                  Þar als a god he sat in stall,
                                
                                  And so he bad men suld him call.
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  His kingdom and all his riallté,
                                
                                  Vntill his sun haly gaf he;
                                
                                  And on þis wise þat curst caytiue
                                
                                  In maumetry wald lede his liue.
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  And so he did full many a day
                                
                                  Ledeand þe folk in fendes lay.
                                
                                  Þus with þe deuil we lat him dwell,
                                
                                  And of his son I sall now tell.
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  A nobill king of cristendum,
                                
                                  Þat namen was heraclium,
                                
                                  Was gouernowre of grete [empire]
                                
                                  Souerainly als lord and syre;
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  Childer he had and worthly wife,
                                
                                  In cristes law he led his life.
                                
                                  Þan þis son of chosdroas
                                
                                  In his hert euill angerd was
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  Þat þis cristen king had name
                                
                                  More þan he or his sire at hame.
                                
                                  Þarfore he ordand him in hy,
                                
                                  And gaderd a grete cumpani
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  Of sarzins by his assent;
                                
                                  And with ful grete ost es he went,
                                
                                  With þis cristen king to fight,
                                
                                  And to destroy him if he might.
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  Bot sone eraclius herd tell,
                                
                                  Of þis falshed how it bi-fell.
                                
                                  He ordand him full hastily
                                
                                  Of cristen men grete cumpany.
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  Bot als it was oure lordes will,
                                
                                  When aither come oþer vntill,
                                
                                  In place whare þai swld batayl take,

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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 124
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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