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.

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LAdi· loue doþ þe to alegge Line 148 Þi fruit is prikked· wiþ speres ord: On Cros·, wiþ-outen knyues egge, I· kerue fruit· of godes hord; Al is al red·, Rib· and Rugge, Line 152 His bodi bledeþ· a-ȝeyn þe bord; I· was piler· and bar a brugge, God is weie·, witnesse of word; God seiþ he is· soþfast weye; Line 156 Mony folk slod· to helle slider, To heuene· mihte no mon þider, Til god dyed· and tauȝte whider Men drawen· whon þei dye·: Line 160
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Moyses haþ fourmed·, in his figour, A· whit lomb·, and non oþer beste Schulde be sacred vr saueour, And be mete of mihtes meste; Line 164 I· was þat cheef chargeour, I· bar flesch· for folkes feste; Ihesu crist· vre saueour He fedeþ· boþe lest and meste, Line 168 Rosted· a-ȝeyn þe sonne; On me lay· þe lomb of loue,
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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.
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1871.
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Crosses -- Legends.

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