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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Triginta denarii.

                                  
                                    Þe pens also þat iudas tolde,
                                  
                                    Þat for [ther-fore.]  iesu crist was solde,
                                  
                                    Vs schilde from tresun and couetyse, [folio 74] 
                                  
                                    Þer-in to die in no wise.
                                    Line 32

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Lanterna.

                                  
                                    Þe lantern þat me bar [men bare.]  in þe lyȝt,
                                  
                                    Wen crist was taken in þe niȝt,
                                  
                                    Hit lyt [he kepe]  me from niȝtus [dedely.]  sine,
                                  
                                    Þat i neuer be tak [neuer deye.]  þer-inne.
                                    Line 36

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Gladii et fustes.

                                  
                                    Suerdus and battus þat þey bere
                                  
                                    Iesu crist þer-with [with omitted.]  to fere—
                                  
                                    From findus, lord, þow [thay.]  kepe me
                                  
                                    Of hem aferd þat i ne be.

                                    Line 40

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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 174
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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