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.

                                
                                  Þe quene him lette wel uaste bynde; and in strong prison bringe [let in strenge bringe; and wel faste bynde.] 
                                
                                  Þer wiþþoute mete and drinke; seue dawes he lay
                                
                                  Vor hongur he bigon to crie; wel loude þen seueþe [þe soueþe.]  dai
                                
                                  And sede bringeþ me of þis wo; and ichulle ȝou lede
                                
                                  Þer ich wene þe rode be [beo.] ; as my fader me sede
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                                  Þo he out of prison com; myd muche folc he wende
                                
                                  To þe place as [þer.]  þe rode was; as is fader him kende
                                
                                  Þo he to þe place com; he sat adoun akne
                                
                                  Lord he sede ȝif it is soþ [Louerd he seide if hit beo soþ.] ; þat þou [þu.]  god and man be
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  And þat þou [of marie] were ibore; send ous here þin [þi.]  grace
                                
                                  And toknynge þat we fynde mote; þe rode In þisse [þis.]  place
                                
                                  Anon so Iudas hadde þis bone; to our lord ibede [Anon so Iudas hadde; to oure louerd his bone ibede.] 
                                
                                  Þe hul bigon to quake; and out of one stede
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  Þer sprong [smot.]  out a smoke and wende an hei; and muche place fulde
                                
                                  Suettere smul ne myȝte be; þen þe smoke smulde
                                
                                  Þo Iudas þis isei; loude he gan crie
                                
                                  Ihesus is one [omitted.]  al-miȝti god; ibore of maide marie
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Wod is þat bileueþ oþer; as ichabbe mony a-day [meni o day.]  [folio 67b] 
                                
                                  Take ichulle to cristendom; and uor-sake þe [omitted.]  giwes lay
                                
                                  He let him cristeny hasteliche; and þo he icristned was
                                
                                  And let him nempne [nemny.]  quiriac; þat er het Iudas
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  Þo nome hi spade and schole [schoule.] ; and ner þe place wende
                                
                                  Depe [Deope.]  hi gonne to delue; þer as þe smoke out [vp.]  kende [wende.] 
                                
                                  So þat hi founden roden þre; þo hi hadde idolue longe
                                
                                  Our lordes rode and þe [omitted.]  oþer two; þat þe þeues were on an-honge
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                                  Biside our lord him to scende; þo nuste hi of þe þre [Biside oure louerdes croice hi gonnen hi fynde; þo nusten hi of þe þreo.]

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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 42
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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