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.

                                
                                  And eke to hele sikemen; two and fourti ȝer
                                
                                  Seþþe he deie scholde [Siþþe þo scholde deye.] ; þe ȝerden he sette er
                                
                                  Vnder þe hul of tabor; deide him sulf [silf.]  þer
                                  Line 112 
                                
                                  Þer stode þe ȝerden grene; mo þen [more þan.]  a þousend ȝer
                                
                                  Vorte Seint dauid þe kyng com; þat was of gret power
                                
                                  So þat he was þoru þe holi gost; ihote vorte heie [hie.] 
                                
                                  To þe hul of tabor; in þe lond of arabie
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  Þat he þulke ȝerden þre [þreo ȝeorden.] ; vette and wiþ him nome
                                
                                  Nye dawes [Neoȝe dayes.]  he was þuderward; ar [er.]  he þuder come
                                
                                  Wiþ gret honur he nom hem up: þo he þe ȝerden vond [nom.] 
                                
                                  Þe suotnesse þat þer-of com; velde al þat lond
                                  Line 120 
                                
                                  Wiþ gret melodie of is harpe; Seint dauid þe ȝerden nom [þe suotnesse .... ȝerden nom. These two lines are omitted in H.] 
                                
                                  And [omitted.]  to ierusalem hem [he] ladde; and nyþe dai [þe neoȝeþe dai.]  hom he com
                                
                                  In a derne stude [In a durne stede.]  he hem sette; uor it was in þe euen|ynge [þeueninge.] 
                                
                                  Vorte amorwe þat he iseie [iseȝ.] ; wuder [whoder.]  he· myȝte hem bringe
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  A morwe þo he com þerto; to one hi were alle icome
                                
                                  And Imored so uaste also [omitted.] ; þat hi ne miȝte awei be [i] nome [beo ynome.] 
                                
                                  Þat alle þre bicome [þreo come.]  to on; wat [what.]  bitokeneþ þis
                                
                                  Bote þat [omitted.]  fader and sone and holi gost; al o god it is
                                  Line 128 
                                
                                  Seint dauid aboute þis holi ȝerde; a strong wal let rere [dude arere.] 
                                
                                  And nom gode ȝeme hou it woxe [hou long; hi were.] ; fram ȝere to ȝere [folio 65b] 
                                
                                  Þat he myȝte at[t]e laste iwete [wite.] ; hou old þat [þis.]  tre were
                                
                                  Wiþ a cercle of seluer he bond; ech ȝeres scute þere [H. omits line 132.] 
                                  Line 132 
                                
                                  So þat wiþþinne [in.]  þritti ȝer; þis [þe.]  tre wox [wax.]  wel heie [heȝe.] 
                                
                                  Ac it [heo.]  ne wox [wax.]  nammore [nomore.]  þer-after [afterward.] ; as hi wuste [H. omits as hi wuste.]  bi þe [siluer] [from H.]  beie
                                
                                  Ac euer in on þer-after; swiþe vaire it stod [Ac euere afterward; faire ynou hit stod.] 
                                
                                  Seint dauid it honured [onurede.]  wel; uor he wuste [þat] it was good [god.] 
                                  Line 136

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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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