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 emperour þe swete rode nom [nom þe swete Rode.] ; and al auote [afote.]  In bar
                                
                                  Þat folc siwede him wiþ gret prece [prute.] ; gret Ioie and blisse [H. omits and blisse.]  was þar
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  Anon þer com so suote smul [swet smyl.] ; as it fram heuene were
                                
                                  Þat al þat contreie [þe contray aboute.]  fulde; and alle þat stode [al þe stede.]  þere
                                
                                  Þe emperour ber þat [bar þe.]  croys; in-to þe temple an hei
                                
                                  He gan synge þis nywe [þisne nue.]  song; byuore [tofore.]  alle þat were þer ney
                                  Line 472 
                                
                                  Þou croys briȝtore to þis wordle [MS. worldle.] ; þen alle þe sterren be [beo.] 
                                
                                  Þou art to honouri to þis men; and awel to louye tre [to luye treo.] .
                                
                                  Holier þen alle [þan eni.]  þing; þou one worþi were
                                
                                  Þat þou þe frut [tresour.]  of al [omitted.]  þe wordl; al one vp þe [þu.]  bere
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  Þou suete tre þat bere on þe; þe suete nayles þre [also.] 
                                
                                  And þe suete berþene [burdoun.]  of godes sone; þat was ido on þe [on þe was ido.] 
                                
                                  Saue nou al þis companye; þat igadered her [her igadered.]  is
                                
                                  And here to-gadere to-dai [to dai to gadere.]  ibroȝt; in þin herynge iwis
                                  Line 480 
                                
                                  Þis song song þe emperour; þat wel [omitted.]  is ȝut vnderstonde
                                
                                  Vor ȝut me it syngeþ in holi chirche; wen [whan.]  me bereþ þe crois an honde
                                
                                  Þat [and þat.]  folc honoured ek þe crois; as me [hi.]  myȝte come þerto
                                
                                  Wiþ offring and eke [omitted.]  wiþ song; and wiþ oþer melodie also
                                  Line 484 
                                
                                  Þis was þe holi rode day; þat in septembre is
                                
                                  Þeruore me halweþ ȝut þen [halþ þane.]  dai: in holi chirche iwis:

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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 56
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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