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.

                                  
                                    xxxviii bichoppus eke also,
                                  
                                    Ich grant bi him self xl dayus þer-to.
                                  
                                    Pope innocent mad a gret counsail
                                  
                                    And al þis confermed with-outen fayl,
                                    Line 212 
                                  
                                    And more pardon ȝaf also,
                                  
                                    iiii ȝere ii C dayus þer-to;
                                  
                                    And ich bischop sayd to-for-hand
                                  
                                    For syȝt of þe uernacul hath graunt
                                    Line 216 
                                  
                                    xl dayus to pardon,
                                  
                                    And þer-with-al her benisun.
                                  
                                    And also who þat eueri day
                                  
                                    Þis armus of crist be-hold may,
                                    Line 220 
                                  
                                    Þat day he ne sal dee no wiked ded
                                  
                                    Ne be cumbert with þe kued;
                                  
                                    And also to wymen hit is meke and mild,
                                  
                                    When þey trauelne of her chi[l]d.
                                    Line 224 
                                  
                                    Þe soum of wekeus to se hit ich day
                                  
                                    A. C. and xix and half get þow may,
                                  
                                    To sen it ich day in þe moneþ also [folio 81] 
                                  
                                    V. C. ȝer and xviii and xii wokes þer-to,
                                    Line 228 
                                  
                                    To sen it a twelf-moneth ich day enter
                                  
                                    Haþ vi. Mo. vii. C. v. and fifti ȝere
                                  
                                    And half ȝere and dayes þre
                                  
                                    Of pardon, þus popus haþ graunted þe.
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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,
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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