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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"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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2702.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2025.

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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.
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                    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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