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.

XIII.

THE SYMBOLS OF THE PASSION [[Royal MS. 17 A 27, [folio 72b] .]]

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                                      Overnacule [The readings here given are from Additional MS. 11,748. veronicle.] , i honoure him and the,
                                    
                                      Þat þe made þorow his preuité;
                                    
                                      Þo cloth he set to his face, [folio 73] 
                                    
                                      Þe prent laft [by-left.]  þere [omitted.]  þorow his grace,
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      His moth, his nose, his ine to,
                                    
                                      His berd, his here [lere.]  dide al so.
                                    
                                      Schilde me for al þat in [me fro dissece in al.]  my liue
                                    
                                      I [that y.]  haue singud [sinwed.]  with wittus fiue,
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      Namlich with mout of sclaunduring,
                                    
                                      Fals othus [othis swore.]  and bakbiting,

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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 [170]
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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