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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The clothe be-forn thyn eyn too, To bobbyn the they knyt it soo— Lord, kepe me from vengawns Of chyldhode and of ignorawns, Line 56 And eke synnys also That I haue sene with myn eyn too, And with myn nose smyllyd eke, Bothe olde and seke. Line 60

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Thyn own cote that had seme non, The purpylle þat they leyd lotte vppe-on— Lorde, be myn socowre and myn helppyng That myn bodye hathe vsyd mys clothyng. 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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