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.

                                
                                  Þo caym hadde his broþer aslawe; iflemd he was þeruore
                                
                                  Þo adam isei þat he hadde; is twei sones uorlore
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                                  He wep and made deol Inouȝ; lord he sede þin ore
                                
                                  Ney womman ichabbe to muche ibe; Inele com ney hire nammore
                                
                                  Þre harmes ichabbe þoru hire iheued; my-sulf uerst uorlore
                                
                                  And myne sones boþe alas; and of al womman is more
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                                  Nolde adam come þo ney is wif; two hondred ȝer ne more
                                
                                  Vor wo þat he hadde uor hire; and euere he lyuede in sore
                                
                                  Seþþe he hadde toknynge of our lord; þat he scholde to is wif wende
                                
                                  Ne dorste he noȝt be þer aȝen; an sone he hadde aten|ende
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                                  Seth he let is name  [n not quite clear.] nempne; and seþþe he hadde mo
                                
                                  Al is lif þe seli mon; ladde in tene and wo
                                
                                  Þo he was of nyne hondred ȝer; and two and þritti old
                                
                                  Þe strengþe him failede of is lymes; is bodi bicom al cold
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                                  He ne miȝte noȝt swynke aboute þe erþe; þe wedus up to drawe
                                
                                  Of is lif he was anuyd; he wilnede be of dawe
                                
                                  He sat and carede of is lif; he clupede is sone seth
                                
                                  Sone he sede icham weri ileued; ich wilny muche my deþ
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                                  Þo ich was idryue of parais; our lord bihet me þere
                                
                                  To smere me wiþ þe oile of mylce; wen it tyme were
                                
                                  So longe ichabbe abide þer-after; þat I ne may libbe nammore
                                
                                  To parais þou most þer-after go; and bidde him mylce and ore

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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,
Canvas: Page 20
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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