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.

                                  
                                    I· was plater· his bodi a-boue,
                                  
                                    Til feet· and hondes· al-to cloue,
                                    Line 172 
                                  
                                    Wiþ blood· I· was bi-ronne:

XIV.

                                    Ȝit Moyses· in Rule haþ rad,
                                  
                                    We schulde ete vr lomb· in sour vergeous;
                                  
                                    Sour vergeous mai make· vr soules glad,
                                    Line 176 
                                  
                                    To serwe sore· for sunnes ours;
                                  
                                    Sour vergeous schal make· þe deuel a-drad,
                                  
                                    For he fleccheþ· fro godes spous;
                                  
                                    Beo a staf· stondeþ sad,
                                    Line 180 
                                  
                                    Whon ȝe fongen flesch· in godes hous,
                                  
                                    Þat staf· is Cristes Crouche;
                                  
                                    Stondeþ stifli· bi þat stake,
                                  
                                    Whon þat ȝe fongen· flesch in Cake,
                                    Line 184 
                                  
                                    Þen schal no feond· maystri make,
                                  
                                    Ȝoure soules for to touche:

XV.

                                    For pardoun scheweþ· be a shrine,
                                  
                                    Wiþ nayl· and brede· on bord is smite,
                                    Line 188 
                                  
                                    Rede lettres· write be lyne,
                                  
                                    Bluwe· Blake· a-mong men pite:
                                  
                                    Vr lord I· likne· to þis signe,
                                  
                                    His bodi· vppon a bord· was bite,
                                    Line 192 
                                  
                                    In Briht blod· his bodi gan schyne;
                                  
                                    Hou wo him was· may no mon wite,
                                  
                                    Red vp-on þe Roode;
                                  
                                    Vr pardoun brede·, from top too to,
                                    Line 196 
                                  
                                    Writen hit was· wiþ wonder wo,
                                  
                                    Wiþ Rede woundes· and strokes blo,
                                  
                                    Vre Book· was bounden in bloode·:

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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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