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.

XL.

                                    ¶ In flesshly wede
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                                    God gan hym hede,
                                  
                                    Of mylde may
                                  
                                    Was born to blede,
                                  
                                    As cristes crede
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                                    Soþely to say;
                                  
                                    On stokky stede
                                  
                                    He roode, men rede,
                                  
                                    In rede aray.
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                                    Fro deuelis drede
                                  
                                    Þat duk vs lede
                                  
                                    At domesday,
                                  
                                    ¶ Whan pepil schal parte and passe [folio 130b] 
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                                    To holy heuene and hell þe wode.
                                  
                                    Now Cristes crosse and crystes blode
                                  
                                    And Maries praier mylde and goode
                                  
                                    Graunte vs þe lyfe of grace. Amen.
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Title: 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.
Author: Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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