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.

Þat to þe soul is fowl uenim, Þat i be not pusond þer-ine [that men be nouȝt y-combred þer-yn.] . Line 108

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Spongea.

Þo þow thurstudust sor with-alle, Þey ȝeufe þe eysel medult with galle; Þat i haue dronken in glotonie, Hit saue me wen i schal diee, Line 112 Þat, lord, now i pray to þe For þat greuauns þow suferdst for me [ll. 113, 114 omitted.] .

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Lancea.

Lord, þe scharp spere i-ground [folio 77b] Þat in þin herd mad a wonde, Line 116 Hit kuench þe sine [synnes.] þat i haue wrogt, With al myn hert euel i-þowt, And of my stout prid þer-to, And myn unbuxumnes al-so. Line 120

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Scala.

Þe laddur upset be enchesoun Wen þow wer ded be take adoun [to take þe doun; originally, by take a-doun.] ,
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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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