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.

                                
                                  Myne [Mi.]  felawes of hor lawe; hi him broȝte to deþe [oure lawe; dude him þe dede.] 
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  Seþþe hi dude him in[to] sepulcre; ac he aros to lyue
                                
                                  Fram deþe þen [þe.]  þridde dai; myd is wounden [wonden.]  viue [folio 67] 
                                
                                  Þen [þe.]  fourteþe dai þer afterward; to heuene he wende an hei
                                
                                  In þe lond of gallile; as al þat folc isei
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  Twel[f] monþe [Tuelf monþ.]  it was þer afterward [þerafter.] ; and half ȝer [monȝ.]  and more
                                
                                  Þat steuene þat was my broþer; preched[e] of godes lore [prechede his lore.] 
                                
                                  Our [Oure.]  giwes him ladde wiþþoute [þe] toun; and henede [stenden.]  him wiþ stones
                                
                                  And to stronge [deþe] him broȝte Inouȝ; and debrusede [brusden.]  al is bones
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  Þe morwe after mydwynter dai; to deþe [after þe Midewynter; to deþe.]  hi him broȝte
                                
                                  And nou he is in [þe] Ioie of heuene; þat he þo aboȝte
                                
                                  Þo Iudas hadde þis tale itold; þe giwes sede as hi stode
                                
                                  Telle ne hurde we neuer er; þus [so.]  muche of þe rode
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Þo þe tyme was icome; biuore þe quene hi come
                                
                                  Cheseþ [Cheoseþ.]  anon quaþ þe quene; on of þis twei dome
                                
                                  Lif and deþ ȝou is biuore; cheseþ weþer ȝe [ȝeo.]  wolleþ
                                
                                  Bote ȝe me fynde þe suete [holie.]  rode; brenne echone [ȝe] scholleþ
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  Gret fur heo let make; biuore [tofore.]  hor alre eie [eȝe.] 
                                
                                  Þe giwes bigonne to crie [grede.]  loude; þo hi þat fur iseie
                                
                                  Ȝif eny mon wot þer-of hi sede; þanne wot Iudas
                                
                                  Vor sachee is fader fader; of gret power was
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Þulke tyme þat ihesus was; on þe rode ido
                                
                                  Þe quene let nyme þo Iudas; and alle þe oþer [and alle þoþere go.]  lette go
                                
                                  And bed [bad.]  him be iknowe anon; he nolde uor none [no.]  þinge

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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 40
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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