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.

                                
                                  When þai saw þat it was swa,
                                  Line 244 
                                
                                  Þai praied ihesuc oure sawiowre
                                
                                  In þat case þam to socoure,
                                
                                  Thurgh uertu of þat haly tre,
                                
                                  Þat þai might win to þat ceté.
                                  Line 248 
                                
                                  Þus praied þai all with drery steuyn,
                                
                                  Heueand up þaire heuides till heuyn;
                                
                                  And als þai loked so up on hight, [folio 178b:2] 
                                
                                  Þai saw ane angell schineand bright,
                                  Line 252 
                                
                                  Euyn opon þe wall standand,
                                
                                  And þe signe of þe cros in his hand;
                                
                                  He stode obouen whare þe zate suld be,
                                
                                  And þir wordes on þis wise sayd he.
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  He said, "when crist of heuyn king,
                                
                                  Þat lord es of all erthly thing,
                                
                                  Þis same wai to þis ceté went,
                                
                                  Þare forto suffer [MS. susfer.]  grefe turment,
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  In at þis zate he toke þe way,
                                
                                  Bot he come all on oþer array.
                                
                                  Grete hors for him none ordand was,
                                
                                  Bot sitand on a simple ass;
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  He was noght cled in kinges clething,
                                
                                  Bot pouerly went he in all thing;
                                
                                  He went noght with grete minstralsy,
                                
                                  Bot in his prayers ful preuely:
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Ensaumple suthly forto gif
                                
                                  To þam þat in his law wald lif,
                                
                                  In him to trow with trew entent,
                                
                                  And mekely to wende als he went."
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  When þis was said, he went up euyn,
                                
                                  With grete light, till oure lord in heuyn.
                                
                                  Þe Emperoure þan Eraclius
                                
                                  Ful hertly thanked dere ihesuc;
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  And all þe folk þat with him ware
                                
                                  War ful faine of þis ferly fare.
                                
                                  Sone of his stede doun es he light,

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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 129
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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