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.

                                  
                                    And kest of all his clething bright,
                                    Line 280 
                                  
                                    His corown and his kinges array
                                  
                                    And his dubbing he did oway,
                                  
                                    And barefot went he on his fete,
                                  
                                    Bereand þe cros [MS. cors.]  by þe strete.
                                    Line 284 
                                  
                                    And on þis maner did þai all.
                                  
                                    And when þe king come nere þe wall,
                                  
                                    It opind and wex zates wide,
                                  
                                    Als it had bene bifor þat tyde.
                                    Line 288 
                                  
                                    Þai entred þan with solempne sang,
                                  
                                    Ful mekill mirth was þam oma[n]g;
                                  
                                    And þe cros bare þai þam bitwene,
                                  
                                    Till þe stede whare it bifore had bene,
                                    Line 292 
                                  
                                    And up þai set it really,
                                  
                                    And honord it als was worthi.
                                  
                                    Þat day þare, thurgh þe cors allane,
                                  
                                    War miracles wroght ful maniane,
                                    Line 296 
                                  
                                    Of sere blind men þat had þaire sight,
                                  
                                    And crokid men war made ful right;
                                  
                                    Of parlesy war helid grete wane, [folio 179:1] 
                                  
                                    And dum and defe ful maniane;
                                    Line 300 
                                  
                                    And leprous men had hele in haste,
                                  
                                    And out of many war deuils chaste.
                                  
                                    Þus war þai held ful grete plenté,
                                  
                                    Thurgh vertu of [þat] haly tre,
                                    Line 304 
                                  
                                    Þat bare ihesu oure sawiowre,
                                  
                                    Vnto him be euer honowre.

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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 130
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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