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.

IX.

[WITH AN O AND AN I [[Douce MS. 126, [folio 90b] .]]

I.

                                      Godys sone þat was so fre,
                                    
                                      In-to þis world he cam,
                                    
                                      And let hym naylyn vp-on a tre,
                                    
                                      Al for þe loue of man;
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      His fayre blod þat was so fre,
                                    
                                      Out of his body it ran,
                                    
                                      A dwelful syȝte it was to se;
                                    
                                      His body heng blak and wan,
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      Wiþ an O and an I.

II.

                                      His coroune was mad of þorn
                                    
                                      And prikkede in-to his panne,
                                    
                                      Boþe by hynde and a forn;
                                      Line 12 
                                    
                                      To a piler y-bowndyn
                                    
                                      Ihesu was swiþe sore,
                                    
                                      And suffrede many a wownde
                                    
                                      Þat scharp and betere wore.
                                      Line 16 
                                    
                                      He hadde vs euere in mynde,
                                    
                                      In al his harde þrowe,
                                    
                                      And we ben so vnkynde,
                                    
                                      We nelyn hym nat yknowe,
                                      Line 20 
                                    
                                      Wiþ an O and an I.

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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 [150]
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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