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 seint Dauid i-sunged hedde þe sunne of lecherie,
                                
                                  And Mon slauht þo· for Bersabe· he lette slen Vrie,
                                
                                  Vr lord nom þer-of wreche gret·, swiþe sori he bi-com;
                                
                                  Vndur þe treo· his penaunce he dude· þat he þer-fore nom;
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  Þer he made þe Sauter·, his sunnes forte bete,
                                
                                  And þe raþere hit him was for-ȝiue· for þe holy treo so swete:
                                
                                  ¶ Þo bi-gon he eke· for his sunne· þe holy Temple to arere,
                                
                                  Swiþe noble in Jerusalem·, ac he dyede in þe fourteneþe ȝere:
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  ¶ His sone, þe kyng Salomon·, þat after him· kyng was þere,
                                
                                  After him· þe Temple bulde forþ· þat heo folliche redi were:
                                
                                  Þeraboute· he was þritti ȝer·, and his fader fourtene also;
                                
                                  So þat hit was· foure and fourti ȝer· er þat werk weore i-do:
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  Þo þat werk· was almest redi· hem faylede a feir treo·:
                                
                                  Þat holy treo was þe feireste þo·, þat me mihte owhere i-seo;
                                
                                  ¶ Þe kyng Salomon hit let hewen·, As qweynteliche as he mihte,
                                
                                  And let hit nymen and make more· bi a fote þen his rihte;
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  Þo hit was brouht to rihte stude· and i-laced scholde beo þer,
                                
                                  Þo was hit· bi a foote to schort·, as euene as heo meeten er;
                                
                                  Þe Carpunter hit leyde a-doun· in strong wraþþe and grete,
                                
                                  To no þing þat he hit euere dude· he ne mihte hit maken i-meetete:
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  ¶ A brugge ouer an Old dich· heo maden þer-of atte laste,
                                
                                  For wraþþe þat heo ne mihten· to non oþur werk hit caste:

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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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