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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.

Þe holi crois [Rode.] þat he vond þere; þat god was on ido Adoun he nom wiþ gret honur; and ladde wiþ him also To þe boruȝ [burgh.] of ierusalem; and þo he com þer biside Vp þe hul of olyuet; an stounde he gan abide 440 Al þat folc aboute him com; wiþ gret honur myd alle And þonkede god of þat [omitted.] cas; þat hem dude [him was.] þer biualle Þat þe swete holi crois; aȝen [aȝe.] moste come Þat þe luþer kyng cosdroe; hem hadde er bynome 444 Þe emperour wende adoun þe hul [wende þo anon.] wiþ vair procession Þen [þane.] wei þat our lord wende; toward is [þe.] passion Þo he com to þe boruȝ [burȝ.] ; and wolde In ate ȝate A uair miracle our lord [louerd.] sende; þat he ne moste com In [er he cam.] þer-ate 448 Vor þe stones þat were þer [þer were.] aboue: adoun anon aliȝte And bi þe wal stode euene uorþ [bi þoþer wal stod þerforþ.] ; þat nomon In ne miȝte Sori was þis emperour; and al is [and þis.] folc also And dradde þat hi vnworþe [vnworþi.] were; such holi þing to do 452 Þer was wop and cri [deol.] Inouȝ; on god þat he hem sende Som grace ȝif is wille were; þat hi saueliche In wende Þo [þer.] stod an angel ouer [aboue.] þe ȝate; a crois he huld an honde Sire emperour he sede þulke tyme; þat our lord [louerd.] was her alonde 456 Þo he com In at þis ȝate; to be to deþe ido Vp an [vpon a.] seli asse he rod; and [omitted.] in feble cloþes also He ne com [com in.] wiþ no gret nobleie; so [omitted.] as þou dost nou Wiþ riche cloþes ne oþer prute; þei he were as hei as þou 460 Mid þis word he wende aȝen þis emperour [aȝe; þemperour.] anon And liȝte adoun and alle is cloþes; caste of euerichon Anon to is scerte and [schurte and to.] is breche; sore wepynde wiþ [mid.] alle [folio 69b] Þe stones arise vp aȝen [aȝe.] ; þat were adoun Iualle 464 And lie [eye.] euerich in is riȝte stude; as hi hadde er ido And þe ȝat up as it was er; þe wei clene also
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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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