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.

                                
                                  And fouȝten as heore riȝte was· and maden harde wounde,
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                                  Ac atte laste· þe Emperour· þe oþur ouer-com
                                
                                  And al his folk·, as forward was·, in his baundun nom,
                                
                                  ¶ He lette cristen euerichone· and suwen him to his wille;
                                
                                  Þis luþer kyng sat euere a-tom· In his heuene wel stille,
                                  Line 416 
                                
                                  As A God· and nuste not· þat he was bi-neþe i-brouht,
                                
                                  And so vuel he was bi-loued of his men· þat heo nolden him telle nouht;
                                
                                  ¶ Þis Emperour him wende forþ· in-to his heuene an heih,
                                
                                  He fond him sitte þere as a god· his sone him sat wel neih;
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                                  "Heil," he seide·, "sire false god· in þis false heuene i-founde,
                                
                                  Mid þy sone· and mid þin hori-gost· [(sic) hori gost—a dirty ghost? (intended as a pun.)]  ȝe beþ neih a|swounde;
                                
                                  Bi him þat þou makest þe aftur· þat for vs þolede wounde,
                                
                                  But þou wolle on him bi-leeue· þou schalt here in a stounde
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                                  Of myn hond þole deþ· and þi pruyde ben i-brouht to grounde;
                                
                                  For al þin heuene y nul bi-leue· ne for Mark· ne for pounde":
                                
                                  ¶ "Nay Certes," qu[o]d þis oþer·, "þou ne schalt me not so lere,
                                
                                  Þat ich to eny mon schule a-bouwe· bote he herre þen ich were":
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                                  ¶ Þe Emperour drouȝ out his swerd· and smot of his hed riht þere:
                                
                                  His ȝongeste sone· þat bi him sat· þat was in his tenþe ȝere,
                                
                                  He let him cristene and make kyng· of al his fader lond;
                                
                                  His Men he ȝaf al þat seluer· þat he þere fond,
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                                  ¶ Mid þe Gold and riche þinges· þat he fond þere;
                                
                                  Þe chirches þat þe schrewe destruyde· he lette þer-wiþ vp a-rere,
                                
                                  And made al þat lond in god bi-leeue· þere in Godes lawe;
                                
                                  Alle þat nolde turne to God· he brouȝt hem sone of dawe:

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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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