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.

That to sowle ben venym, That I be not poysynd ther-in. Line 108

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Whan þou thrystyd sore with-alle, They gaffe the eysyll with byttyr galle; Alle þat I haue dronke in glotenye For-geue me, lorde, ar than I deye. Line 112 . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Lord, the spere so scharpe I-grownde, Þat in thyn herte made a wownde, Line 116 It quenchyth the synne þat I haue wrowt, With alle myn harte fulle ewle thowt, And myn stowt pryd also, And myn onbuxumnes ther-too. Line 120

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The ledder, vppe-set be encheson Whan þou war ded to be take a-down,
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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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