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.

Hiis schines were y beten hiis honden weren y bonden. Hiis face hy gonne on spete lyt of heuene þey fonde.

Ad terciam horam. amen [[A leaf is wanting here.]] Crucifige clamitant hora terciarum [&c.] Adoramus [te]. Domine ihesu criste. [folio 66] [folio 66b]

At hondren day on wde þe giwes gonne grede. In schorn he was i.-wonden in purpil palle wede. Line 16 On his schulder he bar þe crois to þe piningge

Sicut oculi ancille in manibus domine sue [&c.] [folio 67] Hora sexta ihesus est cruce conclauatus [&c.] Adoramus [te]. Domine ihesu criste filij. [folio 70b] [folio 71]

At midday was ihesus crist y-nailed to þe rode. Bitwixe tweye þeues he hongid for houre gode. For þuurst of stronge pine y-fuld he was wy[þ] galle. [folio 71b] Line 20 Ve holi louird so god y-wrout þer buiȝt houre sinnes alle.

DEus in adiutorium [&c.] Hora nona dominus ihesus expirauit [&c.] Adoramus. Domine ihesu criste filij. [folio 76b] [folio 77]

At none houre louerd crist of þysse lif he wende. He gradde hely þe holi gost to his fader he sende. A knyt wit a kene spere þerlede his syde. Line 24 Þe herye quakede þe sonne bi-com swart þat erer [folio 77b] schon wel wide.

Deus in adiutorium [&c.]. De cruce deponitur hora uespertina fortitudo [&c.] [folio 82] Adoramus te. Domine ihesu criste filij.

At euensong he was i-nome a doun þat dere us hadde ibouȝt. His mytte hys his stregþe lotede in heiȝe holi þout. [folio 82b] Swech deþ he under feng hele of alle wo. Line 28 Alas þe croune of worschepe to lowe hy leide þo.

COnuerte nos deus salutaris noster. [&c.]

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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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