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 Crois þat heo souhten· whuch of þe þreo hit mihte beo;
                                
                                  Ac noþeles heo nomen alle þreo· and toward toune hem bere
                                
                                  To Eleyne þe goode Qweene· wiþ wel glade chere;
                                  Line 308 
                                
                                  Bi þat hit was heiȝ non· me gon aȝeyn hem bringe
                                
                                  A ded Monnes bodi· vppon A bere· to-ward buryinge;
                                
                                  Quiriak nom þis o Rode· and eft-sone þe oþer,
                                
                                  And leyde vppe þis dede Mon·, ac he ne a-ros for nouþer;
                                  Line 312 
                                
                                  He leyde þe þridde him vppon· and he a-ros wel blyue,
                                
                                  And bi-gon to þonke Godes sone· þat him brouhte to lyue:
                                
                                  ¶ Þo com þe deuel ȝellynde forþ· loude he gon crie and grede,
                                
                                  "Allas nou is my power a-go·," her-after more he sede;
                                  Line 316 
                                
                                  "Ihesus Ihesus· what þenkestou·, Alle folk to þe lede,
                                
                                  Þou hast here in Monnes warde· þing þat ich mest drede,
                                
                                  Þorw whom· ich furst was ouercome· and nou I· am al to grounde;
                                
                                  Allas þulke sori while· þat heo was euere i-founde,
                                  Line 320 
                                
                                  For ich nabbe nou· power so gret· on eorþe a-mong Menne;
                                
                                  Ȝif me fourmeþ enes þe Crois· anon ich mot go þeonne,
                                
                                  Þer-fore ich wot þat eueri mon· wol nou þe soþe i-se,
                                
                                  Þat þe Crois me haþ ouercome· and al my power bi-nome me;
                                  Line 324 
                                
                                  Allas þat ich þis tyme i-sayh· nou ich worþ al forsake!
                                
                                  Iudas Iudas· what was þe· whi woldestou þus on take,
                                
                                  Þorwh on Iudas þat was i-hote· Ihesuc to deþe was i-brouht,
                                
                                  And þorw a Iudas ich am ouercome· and i-brouht to nouht;
                                  Line 328 
                                
                                  Strengþe ne worþ me neuer non· bote eny mon wole mid wille
                                
                                  Seruen me to payen his flesch· his soule forte spille;

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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 45
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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