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 foȝte as it was hor riȝte; and made [makede.]  harde wounde
                                  Line 412 
                                
                                  Ate [and atte.]  laste þe emperour; þen oþer ouercom
                                
                                  And as vorward was al is folc; in is baundone nom
                                
                                  And let hem cristny echon [euerechon.] ; and siwy after his [suy him to.]  wille
                                
                                  And þis luþer kyng sat euer atom; in is heuene wel [omitted.]  stille
                                  Line 416 
                                
                                  As a [omitted.]  god and nuste noȝt; þat he was byneþe ibroȝt
                                
                                  And so vuele his men him louede; þat hi ne warnde [tolde.]  him noȝt
                                
                                  Þis emperour him wende vorþ; in-to [to.]  þis heuene an hei
                                
                                  He [and.]  vond him sitte as a god; his sone him sat wel ney [and his sone him neȝ.] 
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  Heil be þou he sede þou [H. omits he sede þou.]  false god; in þin false heuene ifounde
                                
                                  Nym þin sone and þin holi gost; vor ȝe beþ ney [beoþ neȝ.]  aswounde
                                
                                  Bi him þat þou þe makest [makedest.]  after; þat þolede uor ous [þolede harde.]  wounde [folio 69] 
                                
                                  Bote þou wole on him bileue; þou schalt [her] in astounde
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                                  Of myn hond [myne honden.]  þolie deþ; and þi prute be ibrouȝte to grounde
                                
                                  Vor al þin heuene Inele bileue; ne [omitted.]  uor mark ne pounde
                                
                                  Nai sertes quaþ þis oþer; þou ne schalt me [noȝt] so lere
                                
                                  Þat ichulle abuye [ich wole abowe.]  to eny man; bote he herre [bote. heȝere.]  þen ich were
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                                  Þe emperour drou out is swerd; and smot of is heued riȝt þere
                                
                                  His ȝonge sone þat sat him bi; þat was in is teþe [teoþe.]  ȝere
                                
                                  He let him [omitted.]  cristny and make [makie.]  kyng; of al is fader lond
                                
                                  His men he ȝef al þat seluer clanliche; þat he þer uond
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                                  Myd þe gold and myd þe seluer; þat he vond also þere
                                
                                  Þe chirchen þat þe oþer hadde destrued; þer-wiþ he let rere
                                
                                  And made alond [makede þat lond.]  þer [omitted.]  wel bileued; and libbe in [bileoued; al in.]  godes lawe
                                
                                  Alle þat nolde turne to god [on god bileoue.] ; he [hi.]  broȝte sone of dawe

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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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