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.

                                
                                  Þe angel wende to þulke tre; an appel þer-of he nom
                                
                                  And tok seth þer-of þre curneles; þo he to him com
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  And bed him þulke curneles legge; vnder is fader tonge
                                
                                  And burie him wen he were ded; and loke wat þer-of spronge
                                
                                  Seth wende aȝen as he com; uor þe wei was wel isene
                                
                                  Vor þe stepes were al uorbrend; and þe oþer wei al grene [folio 65] 
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  Þo he was hom aȝen [aȝe.]  icome; his fader he fond ded
                                
                                  Þe curneles he dude vnder is [his.]  tonge [tunge.] ; as þe angel [þangel.]  him hadde ised
                                
                                  And seþþe [siþþe.]  he burede him as riȝt was; in ualeie [þe val.]  of ebron
                                
                                  And of-swonke is owe [omitted.]  mete [so in H., but read mede.] ; he nuste no betere iwon
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  Wiþþynne an [a.]  vewe ȝer þer-after; þis curneles gonne [ups]pringe [vpspringe.] 
                                
                                  Þre [faire] ȝerden [þreo faire ȝurden.]  þer woxe of [omitted.] ; vaire þoru alle þinge [fairest of alle þinge.] 
                                
                                  Þo hi were iwoxe to [omitted.]  þe lengþe; of an elne [MS. helue.]  ich wene
                                
                                  In þulke stat hi stode longe; and euermore grene [andallegate faire and grene.] 
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  Vorte moyses þe prophete; aboute eode [ȝeode.]  in þe londe
                                
                                  To lere þat folc of israel; [and] þo vond he þe ȝerdon stonde
                                
                                  Lo her he sede [seide.]  gret toknynge [tokning.] ; of þe holi trinyte
                                
                                  Fader and sone and holi gost; of þis ȝerden þre
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  Vp he hem nom [Vp hi nome.]  wiþ gret honur; and in auair [fair.]  cloþ hem wond [hi wounde.] 
                                
                                  A swote smul þer com out of [þer-of.] ; þat smulde [smilde.]  in-to al þat lond [londe.] 
                                
                                  Te confermy [þe] bet [þe bet.]  is lawe; he ber [her bar.]  hem uorþ in [on.]  is hond
                                
                                  Ech sikemon [sik man.]  [þat] þerto hopede; is hele anon [sone.]  he vond.
                                  Line 108 
                                
                                  To teche þat folc þe riȝte [riȝt.]  lawe; þe ȝerden aboute he ber

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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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