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.

                                
                                  Þo Caym hedde his broþur i-slawe· i-flemed he was þer|fore:
                                
                                  Þo Adam sayȝ þat he hedde· boþe his sones for-lore
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                                  He wep and made deol i-nouh·: "lord," he seide "þin ore!
                                
                                  Neih wommon ichaue to muche i-beo·, I nule come neih hire no more!
                                
                                  Þreo harmes ichabbe for hire i-had·, my self furst for|lore,
                                
                                  And nou my sones, welawey!· of Al. wommon is more":
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                                  ¶ Þo nolde Adam come neih his wyf· two hundred ȝer and more,
                                
                                  For wo þat he hedde i-had·, and euere he lyuede in sore:
                                
                                  From vr lord toknynge he hedde seþþe· þat he scholde to his wyf wende:
                                
                                  Ne dorste he not beo þer a-ȝeyn·: A child he hedde atte ende,
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                                  Seth; he let his nome nempne·, and seþþen heo hedden mo:
                                
                                  Al his lyf þis seli mon· liuede in teone and wo:
                                
                                  ¶ Þo he was of Nyne hundred ȝer·, and two and þritti old,
                                
                                  His strengþe faylede of his Limes·, his bodi bi-com al cold;
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                                  Mihte he not aboute þe eorþe swynke·, ne þe weodes vp to drawe;
                                
                                  Of his lyf he was a-nuyȝed· he wilnede to ben of dawe:
                                
                                  He sat· and Carede of his lyf·: he clepte his sone Seth: [folio 29:1] 
                                
                                  "Leoue sone· icham weri of-liued·, ich wilne aftur my deþ:
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                                  Þo ich was i-driuen out of paradys·, vr lord bi-het me þere
                                
                                  Wiþ Oyle of Milce smere me· whonne hit tyme were;
                                
                                  So longe ichabbe þer-aftur a-bide· þat ich may libbe no more:
                                
                                  To Paradys þow most þer-after go· and cr en him Milce and ore;

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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 21
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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