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.

Wen i ham ded in [on.] ani sinne Take me þat i ne die þer-ine. Line 124

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Forceps.

Þe tonges þat drow þe nayles out, Of fet, of handes, al about, And louset his [loosed þi.] bodi from þe tre, Of alle my sinnus þey lese [loose.] me. [folio 78] Line 128

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Iudeus spuens in facie christi.

Þe iewe þat spit [spathe.] in goddus face— For he hit suffurd, he ȝyf us [me.] grace; Þat I haue reuilud or ani man me, For þat despit for-ȝyf it be. Line 132
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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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