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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.

ete of / And sayd to hym that whan þat bare fruyte he shold be guarysshed and all hool / Whan seth came agayn, he founde his fader deed / and planted this tree vpon his graue / And it endured there vnto the tyme of salamon / and by cause he sawe that it was fayre / he dyde doo hewe it doun / and sette it in his hows named saltus / and whan the quene of saba came to vysyte Salamon / She worshypped this tree by cause she sayde the sauyour of all the world shold be hanged theron / by whom the royame of the Iewes shall be defaced and seace: Salamon for this cause made it to be taken vp and doluen depe in the grounde / Now it happed after that they of Iheru|salem: dyde doo make a grete pyte for a pyscyne: where as the mynysters of the temple shold wesshe theyr bestes þat they sholde sacrefyse / and there founde this tree / and this pyscyne hadde suche vertue that the aungels descended and meuyd the water / And the fyrst seek man that descendyd in to the water after the meuynge / was made hool of what someuer sekenesse he was seek of· And whan the tyme ap|proched of the passyon of our lord / thys tree aroos out of the water and floted. aboue the water / And of this pyece off tymbre made the Iewes the crosse of oure lord / Thenne after this hystorye: the crosse by whiche we ben saued . came of the tree by whiche we were dampned / and þe water of that pyscyne had not this vertue onely of the aungel: but of the tree / Wyth this tree wherof þe crosse was made there was a tree that wente ouerthwarte· on whyche the armes of our lord were [folio Cxxxib:2] nayled / And another pyece aboue whiche was the table / wherin the tytle was wryten: and another pyece wherin þe sokette or morteys was maade that the body of the crosse stood in: Soo that there were foure manere of trees That is of palme of cypres / of cedre and of olyue / Soo eche of thyse foure pyeces was of one of these trees: This blyssyd crosse was put in the erthe and hid by the space of an C yere and more· But the moder of themperour whiche was named helayne founde it in this manere / For constantyn came wyth a grete multytude of barbaryns nyghe vnto the ryuer of the
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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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