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.

Þat Mary lulled in louely place, As sche was ful full of grace, Line 112 To loke in þe lambes face, Þat siȝt god leue vs sene.
XI.
¶ Seint Iohan wroot wiþ penne, [folio 132] Ȝif þou lyuest in charyté, Line 116 Þe lombe of loue lyueþ with þe, And in god þi goost schal be, In welþe heuene to wynne.
XII.
¶ Make cristys cradell of þi herte, Line 120 In bonde of love bynde hym fast, On a poure begger put a scherte, And wollen wedys þat warm will last, To poure in prisoun þou schalt sterte, Line 124 And ȝeue þe wrecches of þe good þou hast. ¶ Þis seyle sette on þi mast And seyle in-to þe blisse of heuene; At domesday god schal full euene Line 128 Monewe þe dedis of mersy seuene To kaytyfes þat be cast.
XIII.
¶ Rokke þi cradell hiȝe and lowe, Mirþe and Mischeef haue in mynde, Line 132 In heuene is ioyned ioye Inow, In hell fyre and filþe þou schalt fynde; Whasshe þi sowle white as snowe, And in þat bed þis barn schal þe bynde; Line 136 In a cote, with-oute slow, Oure lady lolled þi leve frende. ¶ Man haue þis in mynde,
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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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