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.

                                
                                  Put In þin heued at þe ȝate; and stond þi-sulf wiþþoute
                                
                                  He pulte In is heued as he bed; and bi-huld al aboute
                                
                                  So murie ne þoȝte him neuer in no stude; þei he stode him-sulf wiþþoute
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  So gret delit he hadde and Ioie; of þe foules murie song
                                
                                  Of þe swete med al-so; and of þe floures þer among
                                
                                  Of ech maner frut þat he sei; þat smolde also swote
                                
                                  Þat of ech maner vuel as him þoȝte; amon miȝte habbe þer-of bote
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  Him þoȝte ȝif he moste þere; biholde In eny stounde
                                
                                  Euermo he myȝte In Ioie be; his lymes hol and sounde
                                
                                  Amydde þe place þat was so uair; he sei an vaire welle
                                
                                  Of wan alle þe wateres þat beþ anerþe comeþ; as þe þe bok deþ telle
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  Ouer þe welle stod a tre; wiþ bowes brode and lere [? sere.] 
                                
                                  Ac it ne bar noþer lef ne rynde; as it uorolded were
                                
                                  A neddre it hadde biclupt aboute; al naked wiþþoȝte skynne
                                
                                  Þat was þe tre and þe addre; þat made adam uerst do sunne
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  Efsone he bihuld In ate ȝate; þe tre him þoȝte he sei
                                
                                  Vaire ileued and iwoxe; up to heuene an hei
                                
                                  A ȝong child he sei up þe tre; in smale cloþes iwounde
                                
                                  Þe more of [MS. of to.]  þe tre him þoȝte tilde; þoru-out helle grounde
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  His broþer soule abel ek; him þoȝte In helle he sei
                                
                                  Þe angel him drof þo fram þe ȝate; þat he nas nammore þer nei
                                
                                  Þe child he sede þat þou iseiȝ; a noueward þe tre
                                
                                  Godes sone it was þat wole anerþe; uor þine fader sunne be
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  And þe oile of milce wiþ him bringe; wen þe tyme Iuelle is
                                
                                  And smere þer-wiþ and bringe of pyne; þi fader and alle his

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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 24
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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