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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[WITH AN O FOR AN I [[Douce MS. 128, [folio 258] .]]

                                    
                                      As þou for holy churche riȝt
                                    
                                      Bare þe blody face,
                                    
                                      To þe y praye, boþe day and nyȝt,
                                    
                                      Of ioye sende me a space.
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      Wiþ an O. for and an I. a space for to a-byde,
                                    
                                      Thu bere myn arnde to þat lord. þat bare þe blody syde.
                                    
                                      ¶ Ihesu kyng in trone,
                                    
                                      Lord in magesté
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                                      To þe y make my mone
                                    
                                      Wiþ herte good and fre.
                                    
                                      Frendes haue y none
                                    
                                      That wolde me knowe ne se,
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                                      My wonynge ys allone,
                                    
                                      Lord wel wo ys me!
                                    
                                      Wiþ an O. and an I. My wonynge is wel wykke,
                                    
                                      Frendes haue y fewe, My fomen walkeþ þykke.
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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 [153]
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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