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.

                                
                                  Mine felawes of vre lawe· þerfore heo him brouhte to dede;
                                  Line 256 
                                
                                  Seoþþe heo him in þe Sepulcre dude·, ac he a-ros to lyue
                                
                                  Fro deþe· þe þridde day· mid his woundes fyue;
                                
                                  Þenne þe fourtiþe day þer-afterward· to heuene he wende an heih,
                                
                                  In þe lond of Galiléé· þat al þat folk i-seih:
                                  Line 260 
                                
                                  Twelf Moneþ hit was· þer-afterward·, and half a ȝer· and more,
                                
                                  Þat Steuene· þat my broþer was· preche gon of his lore;
                                
                                  Oure Gywes· him hedde wiþ-oute þe toun· and stenede him wiþ stones,
                                
                                  Þerwiþ to deþe heo him brouhte· and to brusede his bones:
                                  Line 264 
                                
                                  Þe Morwe after Mid-wynter-day· to deþe heo him brouhte,
                                
                                  And nou he is in þe Ioye of heuene· and he hire a|bouhte":
                                
                                  ¶ Þo Iudas hedde his tale i-told· þe Gywes seiden, as heo stode,
                                
                                  "We ne herde telle neuer er· þus muche of þe Roode":
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  Þo þat þe tyme was· bi-fore þe Qweene heo come,
                                
                                  "Cheoseþ seide þe Qweene þo· of þeose tweye dome;
                                
                                  Lyf· and Deþ· is ow bi-fore·, cheseþ wheþer ȝe wollen,
                                
                                  But ȝe· þe Holy Roode me bringe· Brenne vchone ȝe schullen":
                                  Line 272 
                                
                                  Gret Fuir heo lette make· bi-fore heore alre eiȝen;
                                
                                  Þe Gywes bi-gonne to crie loude· þo heo þe fuir i-seiȝen,
                                
                                  And seiden· "ȝif þer-of eny wot· þenne wot Iudas,
                                
                                  For Zachee· his Fader· fader; of gret pouwer was,
                                  Line 276 
                                
                                  Þulke tyme þat Ihesuc was· on þe Roode i-do":
                                
                                  Þe Qweene· þo lette nyme Iudas· and þe oþere heo lette go,
                                
                                  And bad him ben A-knowe·, and þo he nolde for no|þinge [folio 29b:2]

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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 41
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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