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.

VIII.

DISPUTE BETWEEN MARY AND THE CROSS [[Vernon MS. [folio 315b:3] .]]

Disputacio inter Mariam et Crucem, secundum Apocrafum.

I.

                                      Oure ladi freo·,
                                    
                                      on Rode treo·,
                                    
                                      made hire mon:
                                    
                                      Heo seide on þe·
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      þe fruit of me·
                                    
                                      is wo bigon:
                                    
                                      Mi fruit I· seo·
                                    
                                      in blodi bleo·
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      Among his fon,
                                    
                                      Serwe I· seo·,
                                    
                                      þe veines fleo·
                                    
                                      from blodi bon:
                                      Line 12 
                                    
                                      Cros·! þou dost no trouþe;
                                    
                                      On a pillori· my fruit to pinne,
                                    
                                      He haþ no spot· of Adam sinne;
                                    
                                      Flesch· and veines· nou fleo a-twinne,
                                      Line 16 
                                    
                                      Wherfore I· rede of routhe·:

II.

                                      Cros· þi bondes schul ben blamed,
                                    
                                      Mi fayre fruit· þou hast bi-gyled;
                                    
                                      Þe fruites Mooder· was neuere a-famed,
                                      Line 20 
                                    
                                      Mi wombe is feir·, founden vn-fuyled:
                                    
                                      Chyld· whi artou not a-schamed

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

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