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 fourme as it an heuene were; he made [makede.]  on [in.]  alle wise
                                  Line 384 
                                
                                  Wende aboute myd [bi.]  queyntise; and as reyn ofte reyne [gan ryne.] 
                                
                                  Ac me suth wel selde luþer prute [me seoþ selþe prute.] ; come to gode [MS. godes.]  fine
                                
                                  Anouewar is [þe.]  tour amydde al þis; is [a.]  sege he let rere
                                
                                  In is riȝt half he made an sege; is on sone he sette þere [H. omits this line.] 
                                  Line 388 
                                
                                  To sitte him-sulf as [on.]  a god; in heuene as þei it were
                                
                                  As it were in stude of godes sone; þat non defaute nere [H. omits this line.] 
                                
                                  In is lifthalf he made [sette.]  anoþer; a uair cok he let vette [to him me fette.] 
                                
                                  In [As in þe.]  stude of þe holi gost; in is lifthalf bi him [lifthalf me.]  sette
                                  Line 392 
                                
                                  And [He.]  sat him-sulf al amyde; þe fader as þei it were
                                
                                  And sone and holi gost biside; gret [moche.]  prute was þere
                                
                                  Nou was þis a wonder [maister.]  hyne; and a wonder god also
                                
                                  And [Ac.]  euer me þencþ he was abast [hit was a bastard.] ; and also [þat.]  him com to
                                  Line 396 
                                
                                  Eraclius þe emperour þat cristene was of [at.]  rome
                                
                                  Of þis mysuarynge prute; hurde [he hurde.]  telle ilome
                                
                                  Wiþ is ost he wende in-to is lond; and worrede [werrede.]  on him uaste
                                
                                  In is heuene he [omitted.]  sat as a god; þat noþing him ne agaste
                                  Line 400 
                                
                                  So þat is eldest [vlþeste.]  sone; he het wende [omitted.]  ate laste
                                
                                  Aȝen þe emperour wiþ [and.]  is ost; and of [out of.]  þe lond him caste
                                
                                  Vor him ne dedeyned [deignede.]  noȝt vor him [H. omits vor him.] ; of is heuene ene [omitted.]  aliȝte
                                
                                  Nammore [No more.]  þen it were a god; wiþ erþliche men [mid an vrþlich man.]  to fiȝte
                                  Line 404 
                                
                                  His oþer [omitted.]  sone wiþ [mid.]  is ost: aȝen þe emperour wende [forþ wende.] 
                                
                                  Þo hi toward þe [omitted.]  batail come; hor eiþer to oþer sende
                                
                                  Þat hi bitwene hem-sulue two; þe [þat.]  batail scholde do
                                
                                  And al hor ost [þost al.]  stonde and biholde; and none [þat noman ne.]  come þerto
                                  Line 408 
                                
                                  And weþer of hem aboue [wheder aboue oþer.]  were; habbe scholde þe myȝte
                                
                                  Of oþeres men and al is lond; after [and after.]  is wille diȝte [hit diȝte.] 
                                
                                  Þo þis vorward ymad was [was ymaked.] ; harde [to-gadre.]  hi smyte to grounde

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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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