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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Velamen ante oculos.

Þe cloth be-fore þin ine to, To bobbe [bobby.] þe þey knyt it so, Hit kepe me from [fro eche.] ueniauns Of childhod and of ignorauns, Line 56 And of other [alle.] sinnus also Þat i haue with my ine do, And with [wiþ my.] nose smellud eke, Boþe ho[le] and eke [also.] seke. [folio 75] Line 60

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Tunica inconsutilis et uestis purpuria.

Þe whit cote þat hade sem none And þe purpure þey layd both upon one [laid loot up one.] , Þey be my sokur and my helping, Þat my bodi hatþ [ther y haue.] usud soft cloȝing. Line 64
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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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