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 naylys throwe fete and handys also, Lorde, kepe me owt of synne and woo, That I haue in myn lyffe doo, With handys handyld or on fote goo. Line 100

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The hamyr bothe stern and grete, Þat droffe þe naylys throw hand and fote, Lord, be myn socowr in alle myn lyffe, Iffe ony man stryke me with staffe or knyffe [Lines 101-104 follow line 124 in the MS.] . Line 104

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The vessel of aysylle and of galle, Lord, kepe me from þe synnys alle,
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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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