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.

                                  
                                    Þe lomb haþ leid· þe Lyoun a-doun;
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                                    Þe lomb is lord· in eueri toun,
                                  
                                    So Cristes blod· haþ pleted:

XXIII.

                                    In holy writ· þis tale is herde,
                                  
                                    Þat goode ȝiftes· god vs ȝaf;
                                    Line 292 
                                  
                                    God seiþ him-self· he is schepherde,
                                  
                                    And vche an heerde· bi-houeþ a staf; [folio 316b:1] 
                                  
                                    Þe Cros· I· calle· þe heerdes ȝerde,
                                  
                                    Þer-wiþ þe deuel· a dunt he ȝaf,
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                                    And wiþ þe ȝerde· þe wolf he werde,
                                  
                                    Wiþ duntes· drof him al to draf:
                                  
                                    Þe Cros· þis tale tolde;
                                  
                                    Þat he was staf· in þe heerdes hond,
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                                    Whon schep breken· out of heore bond,
                                  
                                    Þe wolf he wered· out of lond
                                  
                                    Þat deuoured· cristes folde:

XXIV.

                                    Ȝit seide· þe Meke Marie— [[respondit Maria.]] 
                                    Line 304 
                                  
                                    Roode· þou reendest my Rose al red:
                                  
                                    Þreo Iewes coomen· from Caluari
                                  
                                    Þat day· þat Ihesu þoled ded,
                                  
                                    Alle þei seiden· þei weore sori,
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                                    For-dolled· in a drouknyng dred;
                                  
                                    Þei tolden hem alle· wherfore· and whi
                                  
                                    Heore hertes were colde·, as lumpyng led;
                                  
                                    Þe furste· heore tale tolde;
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                                    Whon crist was knit· with corde on a stok
                                  
                                    His bodi bledde· a-ȝein þat blok,
                                  
                                    Þorw feet and hondes· nayles gan knok,
                                  
                                    Þen gan myn herte· to colde·:

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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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