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.

I am þe relyk þat schyneþ schene, Men wolde wyte where I were, Line 296 At þe pleyn parlement I schal been, At domesday prestly to pere; ¶ Whan god schal seye riȝt þere, 'Trewly on þee rode tre, Line 300 Man, I dyed for loue of þe; Man, what hast þou do for me To be my frendly fere?'
XXXVII.
¶ At parlement I wil put pleynyng, Line 304 How maydenes sone on me gan sterue, Spere and spounge and hard naylyng, Þe hard hede þe helme gan kerue: And I schal crye riȝtful kyng, Line 308 Ilk man haue as þe serue, Þe riȝt schul ryse to ryche reynynge, Truyt and treget to helle schal terve: ¶ Mayde meke and mylde! Line 312 God took in þe hy[s] flessch trewe, I bare þi fruyt lele and newe; It is riȝt þe rode to Eue helpe schewe Man, woman, and chylde". Line 316
XXXVIII.
¶ Þe queen þus acorded with þe Cros, [folio 130] Aȝens hym spak nomore speche; Þe lady ȝaf þe cros a cosse, Þe lady of love longe loue gan seche, Line 320 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Line 324
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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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