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.

                                
                                  With ful grete solempnité,
                                  Line 208 
                                
                                  And bare it [MS. if.]  furth so þam omang,
                                
                                  With himpnes and with nobil sang.
                                
                                  And all þe folk þan war ful glad,
                                
                                  Þat þai þis haly tre þus had.
                                  Line 212 
                                
                                  Hamward þai toke þe way in hy,
                                
                                  With mekill mirth and melody;
                                
                                  And als þai come in þe strete,
                                
                                  Doun ouer þe mownt of olyuete,
                                  Line 216 
                                
                                  Als it fell in þare iornay,
                                
                                  To ierusalem þe redy way,
                                
                                  Graithly furth þai held þe gate,
                                
                                  Vnto þai come till þat ilk zate,
                                  Line 220 
                                
                                  Whare ihesuc crist went in ful playn,
                                
                                  When he come þeder at suffer payn;
                                
                                  And mekill folk of þat same toune,
                                
                                  Þat war cumen with processiowne,
                                  Line 224 
                                
                                  For wirschip of þe haly tre,
                                
                                  And sum þat reall sight to se,
                                
                                  Eraclius him self gan ride
                                
                                  Bifor þe prese with mekill pride,
                                  Line 228 
                                
                                  And oþer lordes þat with him ware,
                                
                                  Þe haly cros oma[n]g þam bare.
                                
                                  And þus, with grete solempnité,
                                
                                  Entred þai to þat ceté.
                                  Line 232 
                                
                                  Bot when þai neghed þe zates nere,
                                
                                  Þis meruaill fell on þis manere.
                                
                                  Þe zates, þat bifore war wide,
                                
                                  Closed samyn sone in þat tyde,
                                  Line 236 
                                
                                  Þat kenyng of zate was þare nane,
                                
                                  Bot all closed alls a wall of stane,
                                
                                  So þat þai might no takning se,
                                
                                  On whilk syde þai suld haue entré.
                                  Line 240 
                                
                                  Sone when þai saw þis wonder dede,
                                
                                  In þaire hertes þai had grete drede.
                                
                                  Eraclius [MS. Era|chius.]  and oþer ma,

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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 128
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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