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 holy Rode· I-founde was·, as ich ow wolle now telle:
                                  
                                    Constantin þe Emperour· heþene folk gon faste quelle,
                                  
                                    For heo vr lord Ihesu crist· to strong deþ brouhte;
                                  
                                    Alle þe heþene Men þat neih him were· sone he brouhte to nouhte:
                                    Line 232 
                                  
                                    Eleyne þat his Modur was· to Ierusalem heo sende
                                  
                                    To sechen aftur þe holy Rode·, And heo gladliche forþ wende;
                                  
                                    Þo heo com þidere· heo lette crie·, as heo red hedde i-nome,
                                  
                                    Þat alle Gywes of þe Citéé· to-fore hire scholde come:
                                    Line 236 
                                  
                                    Þo þe Gywes i-somened were· heo hedden ful gret fere;
                                  
                                    Gret counseil þei nomen þer-of· what þe enchesun were;
                                  
                                    ¶ Þo seide on· þat hette Iudas·, "Ich wene þat ich wot
                                  
                                    What þis Somouns amounti schal·, ȝif ich telle mot:
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                                    Ich wene· þat þe Qweene enquere wole·, as heo haþ i-þouht,
                                  
                                    Aftur þe Roode þat Ihesu crist· to deþe was onne i|brouht;
                                  
                                    Þat non of ow· ne beo so wod· þat þer-of i-knowe be,
                                  
                                    In Counseil ich ow telle wole þat my fader tolde me:
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                                    ¶ Þo my Fader Symeon· in his deþ vuel lay,
                                  
                                    In Counseil he was to me i-knowe· þo he on him þe deþ i-say;
                                  
                                    "Iudas," he seide, "leoue sone·, ȝif hit bi-tydeþ so
                                  
                                    Þat me enquereþ after þe Rode· þat Ihesus was on i-do,
                                    Line 248 
                                  
                                    Loke þat þou beo a-knowe þer-of· er þat me þe quelle;
                                  
                                    Þat Zachéé my Fader tolde me· in Counseil ich wol þe telle:
                                  
                                    He seide me a luytel bi-fore his deþ· þat he was atte dede
                                  
                                    To burien hire· vppe Caluarie Hul·, as heo nomen alle to rede":
                                    Line 252 
                                  
                                    ¶ "Leoue Fader," i seide, "þo· what eylede ow Allas
                                  
                                    Whi wolde ȝe hym to deþe do·, whonne þat he good was":
                                  
                                    ¶ He seide· "bi me nas hit nout· ac for þat he wiþ-sede

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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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