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.

                                  
                                    Sey þat þou nart· cristene nout· and ich wolle de-boner beo,
                                  
                                    And murie lyf þou schalt lede þer-afterward·, and þat þou schalt i-seo":
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                                    Þo þe gode mon nolde don after him·, a Caudrun he lette fulle
                                  
                                    Wiþ Oyle· and let hit seþen faste· and let him þer-Inne pulle;
                                  
                                    Þer-Inne he seþ þe gode Mon· forte þat he weri was:
                                  
                                    Þe gode Mon heriede vr lord euere and neuer þe worse him nas;
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                                    Þo þe Emperour i-sauȝ· þat he ne mihte him so ouer|come,
                                  
                                    With a swerd he smot him þorwh þe herte· þo he was of þe Baþe inome;
                                  
                                    His soule wente to þe Ioye of heuene· aftur his tor|mentynge,
                                  
                                    Crist for þe loue of Seint Quiriac· to þulke Ioye vs bringe A. M. E. N.!
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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 61
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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