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 Qweene him lette þo faste bynde· and in-to strong prison bringe,
                                  Line 280 
                                
                                  Wiþ-oute mete· and drinke· þer seue dayes he lay;
                                
                                  For strong hunger loude he criede· þene seueþe day,
                                
                                  And seide· "bringeþ me of þis wo· and ich ow wole telle and lede
                                
                                  Þer-as ich wene· þat þe Roode beo·, as my fader me sede":
                                  Line 284 
                                
                                  Þo he out of prisun com· mid muche folk he wende
                                
                                  To þe place þer þe Roode was·, as his fader him kende;
                                
                                  Þo he to þe place com· A-doun he sat on kneo,
                                
                                  Lord he seide·, "ȝif hit is soþ· þat þow· God and Mon beo,
                                  Line 288 
                                
                                  And þat· þow of Marie weore i-boren· send vs nou þi grace
                                
                                  Sum toknynge· þat we fynde mowe· þe Roode in þis place":
                                
                                  ¶ Anon· þo Iudas þis bone hedde· to vr lord i-bede,
                                
                                  Þe Hul bi-gon to qwake· and out of one stede;
                                  Line 292 
                                
                                  A· smoke sprong out· and wende an heiȝ·, and muche place fulde,
                                
                                  Swettore þing nas neuer non· þen þe smoke smulde;
                                
                                  Þo Iudas þis i-sayh· loude he bi-gon to crye,
                                
                                  "Ihesus is one Almihti God·, i-bore of Mayde Marie;
                                  Line 296 
                                
                                  Wood is· þat eni oþur by-leeueþ· as i-chabbe mony a day,
                                
                                  Taken i-chulle to Cristendom· ich forsake Gywene lay":
                                
                                  He let him cristene hastiliche· and þo he i-cristened was,
                                
                                  He let him nempnen Quiriak· þat er· he hette Iudas":
                                  Line 300 
                                
                                  ¶ Þo nomen heo spade and [MS. sand.]  schouele· and ner þe place wende,
                                
                                  Deope heo gonne to delue· þer as þe smoke out wende;
                                
                                  So þat heo founden Roodes þreo· þo heo hedden i-doluen longe,
                                
                                  Þe Roode þat God was on i-do· and þat þe twey þeues were on an honge
                                  Line 304 
                                
                                  Bi-syden vr lord· him to schende·, ac he nuste whuch of þe þreo

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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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