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.

holy crosse / wyth all the deuocyon that he myghte: and thenne they foughte longe / and at the last our lorde gaaf the victorye to heracle: and subdued him to his empyre. The oost that was contrary and al the peple of cosdroe obeyed theym to the crysten fayth / and receyued the holy baptesme / And cosdroe knew not thende of þ^e bataylle / For he was adoured and worshyped of all the peple as a god / soo that no man durst not saye nay to him And thenne heracle came to him / and fonde him sittyng in his siege of golde / And sayd to hym / For as moche as after the manere thou hast honoured the tree of the crosse / Yf thou wylt receyue baptim / and the fayth of Ihesu cryste / I shall gete it to the [folio Cclxviii:2] and yet shall thou holde thyne trone [Orig. crone.] and reame wyth lytyll hostages / And I shal lete the haue thy lyfe / and yf thou wylte not· I shall slee the wyth my swerde / and shall smyte of thyne hede And whan he wolde not acorde therto: he dyde anone doo smyte of his hede / And commaunded that he sholde be beried: by cause he had be a kynge: And he founde wyth him one his sone of the age of ten yeres / whom he dyde doo baptyse. and lyfte him fro the fonte. And left to hym the reame of his fader. and thenne dyde doo breke that toure [Orig. trure.] / And gaaf the siluer to theym of hys oost / And gaaf the golde and precyous stones for to repaire the chirches that the tyraunt had destroyed / And took the holy crosse and broughte it agayne to Iherusalem And as he descended fro the mount of oliuete / and wolde haue entred by the gate: by whiche our sauyour went to his passion on horsbacke aourned as a kynge· sodenly the stones of the yates de[s]cended: and Ioyned theym togyder in the yate lyke a walle / and all the peple were abasshed / And thenne the angell of oure lorde appered vpon the gate holdyng the signe of [Orig. repeats the signe of.] the crosse in his honde / And sayd: whan the kyng of heuen went to his passion by this gate / he was not arayed lyke a kyng / ne on horsback But came humbly vpon an asse / In shewyng the example of humylyté whyche he lefte to theym that honour hym / And whan this was said he departed and vanysshyd away / Thenne the emperour toke of his hosen / and

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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 163
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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