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 Seint dauid hadde ido; þe sunne of [off.]  lecherie
                                
                                  And manslauȝt þo [ffor.]  he let sle; vor [ffor.]  his owe wif vrie [wyff ffrie.] 
                                
                                  And our lord nom þer-of wreche gret; swiþe sori he bicom
                                
                                  His penaunce he dude vnder þis tre; þat he þer-uore nom
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  Þer he made eke þen [makede ek þane.]  sauter; his sunne [sinnes.]  vorte bete
                                
                                  Þe raþer [whatlikere.]  it him was uorȝeue; uor þat [ffor þe]  [holi] tre so [omitted.]  swete
                                
                                  Þo bigon [bigan.]  he eke [ek.]  uor is sunne; þe holi [olde.]  temple to [omitted.]  rere [arere.] 
                                
                                  Swiþe noble in ierusalem ac he deide [H. omits ac he deide.] ; in þe fourteþe [fourteoþe.]  ȝere
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  Þe kyng salomon is sone; þat kyng was seþþe þere
                                
                                  After him þe temple bulde; þat he ȝare were
                                
                                  Two and þritti ȝer he was þer [H. omits þer.] -aboute; and is fader fourtene also
                                
                                  So þat it was six and fourti [þritti.]  ȝer; ar [er.]  þat worke [work.]  were ido
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Þo þe [þat.]  work was al-mest ido; hem [him.]  vailed a vair tre
                                
                                  Þat holi tre [þe holi treo.]  was fairest þo; þat hi myȝte awer [owar.]  ise
                                
                                  Salomon it [hire.]  let velle and hewe [hewe and fulle.] ; as queinteliche as he miȝte
                                
                                  And let it mete and make [makie.]  more bi a fot; þen is riȝte
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  And broȝte it [in]-to is riȝte stude [stede.] ; and lacy [legge.]  wolde it þer
                                
                                  Þo was it bi a [o.]  fot to schort; [as euene] as hi mete it er
                                
                                  Þe carpenters it let[e] [lete.]  adoun; in strong [stronge.]  wraþþe and grete
                                
                                  To noþing þat hi it broȝte to; hi ne miȝte it make [makie.]  Imete
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  A brugge ouer an olde [old.]  dich; hi made [makede.]  hit ate [atte.]  laste
                                
                                  Þo hi ne miȝte in þe temple; to non oþer worc it caste

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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 30
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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