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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 þe lyf of faders / That as a man entryd in a Temple of thydollis / he sawe the deuill syttyng / and all his meyny aboute hym And one of thyse wycke spyrytes came and odoured hym / and he demaunded of hym / Fro whens comest thou and he sayde / I haue ben in suche a prouynce / and haue moeued grete warres: and made many trybulacyons and haue shedde moche blood· and am come [came in orig.] to telle it to the: and Sathan sayd to hym· in what tyme hast thou done this. and he sayd in thyrty da [folio CClxixb:2] yes and sathan sayd: why hast thou bee so longe there aboutes / and sayd to them that stode by hym: goo ye and bete hym / and all to-lasshe hym. Thenne came the seconde and worshypped hym / and sayd Syre I haue ben in the see / And haue moeued grete wyndes and tourmentys and drowned many shyppes / and slain many men / And sathan sayde how longe hast thou ben aboute this / and he saide xxij dayes. and sathan sayde hast thou done nomore in this tyme / and commaunded þat he shold be beten / and the thyrd came and said I haue ben in a Cyté and haue meuyd stryues and debate in a weddyng / And haue shed moche blood / and haue slayne þe husbond: and am come to telle the / and sathan axed / in what tyme hast thou done this: and he sayd in x dayes / and he sayd hast thou done nomore in that tyme / And commaunded them that were aboute hym to bete hym also: Thenne came the fourth and sayd / I haue ben in the wyldernes xl yere: and haue laboured aboute a monke and vnnethe at the last I haue throwen and made hym to synne of the flessh / and whan sathan herde that / he aroos fro his sete / and kyssed hym. and toke his crowne of his hede / and set it on his hede / and made hym to sytte wyth hym. and sayd thou hast done a grete thynge / and hast laboured more than all thother / and this maye be the maner of the vysyon: that saint gregory leueth: whan eche had sayd / one sterte vp in the mydle of them all / and sayd he had meuyd Andrewe agaynst the name [So in first edition, but read nonne.] / And had meuyd the fourth parte of his flessh agaynst her in tempta|cion· and therto that yesterday he thought so moche in his minde on her that in the houre of euyn songe he gaf to her
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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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