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 þarfor ligges þou sorowand swa,
                                
                                  Bot say to me and I sall ga
                                
                                  Sone vnto paradis ȝate,
                                
                                  And I sall grete þare in þe gate;
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                                  I sall mak site and sorows sere,
                                
                                  And so I hope god sall me here,
                                
                                  And send sum angell me to gete
                                
                                  Sum of þat fruit þat þou wald ett."
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                                  Adam vnto seth þan telles:—
                                
                                  "I ȝerne no fruit, ne no thing els,
                                
                                  Bot I haue dole with-owten dout,
                                
                                  And euil in al my lims obout."
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                                  Þan said seth and þai all bidene,
                                
                                  "We wate neuer what euil es to mene;
                                
                                  Tell vs what thing þe greue þus,
                                
                                  Wharto suld þou laine fra vs?"
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                                  Als he lay þan þus said he:—
                                
                                  "Al my suns herkins to me!
                                
                                  When god had made me with his will
                                
                                  Ȝowre moder þan he made me till;
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                                  In paradis sone he vs sett,
                                
                                  And gaf vs leue al fruit to ett;
                                
                                  He outtoke no thing bot a tre
                                
                                  Þat he forbed bath hir and me;
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                                  In middes of paradis it stode,
                                
                                  And was knawing of ill and gude;
                                
                                  Þe est he put in my powsté
                                
                                  And þe north at my will to be,
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                                  And till ȝowre moder he toke þat tide [folio 77] 
                                
                                  Bath þe west and þe sowth syde;
                                
                                  And twa angels he toke vs till,
                                
                                  Vs forto were fra alkins ill;
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                                  Till on a tyme, sons, suth to say,
                                
                                  Oure angels went fra vs oway,
                                
                                  Bifor god þaire wirschip to ma;
                                
                                  Þan [com] þe fende þat es oure fa,

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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 63
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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