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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.

A noble emperour þer com seþþe; þat het con|stantyn In batail he was so muche; þat þer nas of no fyn Seþþe com is fon and wonne; muchedel of is londe He ȝarkede aday is ost; aȝen hem vorte [for to.] stonde 208 As he toward batail [bataille.] wende; he bihuld up an hei [folio 66b] Him þoȝte þat a uair croys [croice.] ; up in heuene he sei [seȝ.] Lettres he sei [seȝ.] þer-on iwrite; he bigon hem [he hem bigan.] to rede Wiþ [þurf.] þes [þis.] signe þou schalt; maister be þulke [þuse.] lettres sede 212 . . . . . . . . . . . . Þe emperour þis vnderstod; þei he heþene were A croys [Ane croice.] he let make [makie.] sone; þat is men byuore [tofore.] him bere 216 In stude [stede.] of is [a.] baner; to batail [bataille.] he wende a-non And þoru [þurf.] vertu of þe holi croys; he ouercom is fon And þe maistrie and al is lond won [wan.] ; In a [lute] stounde þere Muche afterward [after.] he þoȝte [soȝte.] seþþe; wat þulke signe were 220 Þe wisost[e] [wiseste.] men of [al] is lond; biuore him he let bringe And enquered[e] [enquerede.] of þe croys; wat were þe toknynge Hi sede þat at ierusalem; god was [i]do [ido.] on rode And þat þe giwes hudde þat [þulke.] crois; as hi vnder|stode 224 Wen [whan.] ichabbe [ich haue.] þer þoru [H. omits þer þoru.] quaþ þe emperour; myn fon [mi fon.] ibroȝt to grounde Ne worþ [worde.] ich neuer bliþe in [of.] herte; ar [er.] þe holi crois be ifounde . . . . . . . . . . . .
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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.
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1871.
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Crosses -- Legends.

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