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 [For.]  þe tre was vil and old; and to vili our lord also [to vyle oure louerd also.] 
                                
                                  And [omitted.]  ȝut hem þoȝte þat [þe.]  tre to vair; þat he were þer|on ido
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                                  Þe croys [croice.]  after our lordes [louerdes.]  deþ; vnder erþe hi caste
                                
                                  Þer hi him to deþe dude; and burede it [omitted.]  þere [wel.]  vaste
                                
                                  And [omitted.]  boþe croys eke þer-wiþ; þat þe þeues henge [honge.]  on er
                                
                                  Þer hi leie ar [er.]  hi were ifounde; mo þen an [tuo.]  hondred ȝer
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                                  Þo [omitted.]  titus and vaspasian; ierusalem nome
                                
                                  And destruede [destreign ede.]  alle þe giwes; þat neuereft þer hi ne come
                                
                                  And al þat lond was ibroȝt; In þe emperours hond of rome
                                
                                  And wiþ is men al biset; to nyme þer-to [þerof.]  gome
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                                  Seþþe þer com an emperour; þat het adrian
                                
                                  Swiþe heþene and luþer [liþer.]  ek; and worrede [werrede.]  ech cristene|man
                                
                                  He wuste war þe rode lay; þat god was on ido
                                
                                  And þat cristenemen þe [þat.]  stude honured[e]; wenne [whan.]  hi [miȝte] come þer-to
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                                  He let a temple of maumet'; in þulke stude arere
                                
                                  Þat me ne vond noþing to loute [aloute.]  to; bote maumet' þere
                                
                                  Wenne [whan.]  cristenemen miȝte þuder stele; hi ne dorste [þerste.]  vor doute
                                
                                  And ek aȝen hor [here.]  herte [hurte.]  it was; to eny maumet' aloute
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                                  Hi bileuede so al [omitted.]  þulke stude; and muchedel uor fere
                                
                                  So þat wiþþinne an [a.]  vewe ȝer; no cristenmon [ne] com þere
                                
                                  So þat þulke stude was; vor-lete [forȝute.]  mony aday [meni odai.] 
                                
                                  Þat no cristenmon ne paynym [cristene man ne payn.] ; nuste war þe rode lay.

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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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