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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Thowe bare the cros ouyr the lake, Owt of iherusalem at the gate; Line 80 Thy fote-steppys swete and good Wer sene throwe schedyng of þi precyus blode. Þou mettyst with women of bethleem, And also women of iherusalem; Line 84 Alle they wepyd for þi torment; To them þou seyddyst a-perte-ment, "Wepe ze not for myn woo, But for zowre childyr also; Line 88 For them ze maye sore wepe, And salte terys for them lete; For they schal haue torment hard An hundyrd wyntyr here-aftyrwa[r]d." Line 92 Tho steppys for vs of grace zeue pardon, Whan we goo, wythe deuocyon, On pylgrymage on hors ar on fote. Of myn synnys, lorde, be myn bote. Line 96
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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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