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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.

ther was a crysten man whiche had hyred an hous: for a yere / and he hadde sette thymage of the crucyfyxe by his bedde / to whiche he made dayely his prayers / and sayd his deuocion / and at the yeres ende he remeued and tooke an other hous. and forgate and lefte thymage behynde hym / And it happed that a Iewe hyred that same hous / And on a daye he hadde another Iewe one of his neyghbours to dyner: and as they were at mete / It happed hym that was boden in lokyng on the walle to espye this ymage / whiche was fyxed to the walle and began to grynne at it for despyte / And agaynst hym / that badde [Orig. hadde.] hym / and also thretened and menaced hym: by cause he durst it kepe in his hous thymage of Ihesu of nazareth: and that other Iewe sware as moche as he myght. that he neuer hadde sene it / ne knewe not that it was there / And thenne the Iewe fayned as he hadde ben peased / and after went straite to the prynce of the Iewes / and accused that Iewe of that whiche he hadde sene in his hous: Thenne the Iewes assembleden and came to the hous of hym: And sawe thymage of Ihesu cryst / and they toke that Iewe and bete hym / And dyd to hym many Iniuryes / And caste hym out half dede of theyr synagoge / and anone they defowled thymage wyth theyr feet / and renewed in it all the tour [folio Cclxix:2] mentes of the passyon of our lord / and whan they perced his syde wyth the spere / blood and water yssued habun|dauntly in soo moche that they fylled a vessell / whiche they set ther vnder. And thenne the Iewes were abasshed and bare this blood in to theyr synagoge / and all the seke men and malades that ware enointed ther wyth / were anone guarysshed and made hooll: And thenne the Iewes told and recounted alle this thinge: by ordre to the Bysshop of the countree: and alle they wyth one wylle receyued baptyme in the fayth of Ihesu cryst / and the Bysshop put this blood in ampulles of crystalle and of glas for to be kepte / And thenne he called the crysten man that had lefte it in his hous / and enquyred of him who hadde made soo fayre an ymage / and he sayd that nychomedus hadde made it / And whan he deyde / he lefte it to gamalyell: and Gamaliel to zachee and zachee to Iaques / and Iaques to symon / And
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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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