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.

XIII.

THE SYMBOLS OF THE PASSION [[Additional MS. 22,029.]] .

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                                      The vernacul—I honowre hym [and the]
                                    
                                      Þat the made throwe hys pryuy[té];
                                    
                                      The clothe he set ovyr hys face,
                                    
                                      The prynte he lefte ther, of hys grace,
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      Hys mowthe, hys nose, hys eyn too,
                                    
                                      Hys berd, hys here he ded also.
                                    
                                      Schyld me, lorde, for þat in myn lyffe
                                    
                                      That I haue synnyd with myn wyttys fyve,
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      Namelyche with mowthe of stlawndrynge,
                                    
                                      Of fals othys and bakbytynge,

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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 [171]
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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