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.

                                
                                  Whon my strengþe is neih by-nome· fonde ich mot wiþ ginne
                                
                                  And mid tresun ȝif ich may· eny Men to me winne;
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  I· may here no lengore bi-leue· for þis me þinkeþ longe,
                                
                                  For þe Crois þat is me bi-fore· in peyne ich am wel stronge":
                                
                                  ¶ Iudas seide·, "go henne a-non· ne cum þou here no more,
                                
                                  I-founden is þeih hit late beo· þat ouercomen haþ al þi lore;
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  He þat her is· þe dede mon· fro deþ i-brouht to lyue
                                
                                  Pult te wiþ þi pouwer al· in-to helle wel blyue":
                                
                                  Muche was þe Ioye of þe Crois· þat me þo made þere,
                                
                                  Wiþ gret song· and processioun· þe Qweene heo hire bere;
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  ¶ Iudas nom cristendom· and þo he i-cristened was
                                
                                  He let him nempne Quiriac· þat er heihte Iudas:
                                
                                  ¶ Þe Qweene of Seluer and of Gold· A gret Schrine heo wrouhte,
                                
                                  And of ȝymmes preciouse· and þe Roode þer-Inne brouȝte,
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  Vppe þe hul of Caluarie· þer heo þe Roode founde;
                                
                                  A Feir Churche heo lette a-rere· i-heried beo þulke stounde!
                                
                                  ¶ Þo þe Qweene· desirede muchel· aftur þe nayles þreo,
                                
                                  Wherwith vr lord was· I-nayled to þe treo;
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  Quyriac· þat er hihte Iudas· wende to þe place,
                                
                                  Þer as þe Crois i-founde was·, and bad vr lord of grace
                                
                                  Þat God, ȝif his wille were·, þe þreo Nayles him sende;
                                
                                  Þe Nayles· wiþ lihtynge gret· vp of þe eorþe wende;
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  Quiriac þonkede Ihesu crist· wiþ gret Ioye he hem nom,
                                
                                  And tok hem Eleyne þe goode Qweene· þo he to hire com;
                                
                                  ¶ Þus was þe holy Roode i-founde· þe þridde day of May
                                
                                  Þat we clepeþ in holichirche· þe Holy Roode day;
                                  Line 356 
                                
                                  Quiriac· þat þe holi Roode fond· Bisschop seþþe he was,
                                
                                  In heuene he is nou seint Quiriac· þat furst hette Iudas;

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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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