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 in ȝowre moder fand he stede,
                                
                                  And did hir do efter his rede;
                                
                                  Sone scho ette, als he hir red,
                                
                                  Of þe fruit god vs bath for-bed;
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                                  Scho bed it me and I ette sum,
                                
                                  And þus bigan oure care to cum;
                                
                                  Þe gerrard þus gan hir bigile,
                                
                                  And me also, allas þat while!
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                                  Þan of oure werk was god il paid,
                                
                                  And als sone vnto me he said:—
                                
                                  'Adam, for þou has left my lare
                                
                                  And broken þe bode þat I bad are,
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                                  And mare wroght efter þi wife,
                                
                                  Þan efter me þat lent þe life,
                                
                                  Vnto þi bodi sal I send
                                
                                  Sexty wowndes and ten to lend,
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                                  Right fra þi heuid vnto þi hele,
                                
                                  Eghen and eres and ilka dele;
                                
                                  And all þi lims on ilka side
                                
                                  Witht sorows sall be ocupide.' "
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                                  He said, "suns, god has sent þis thing
                                
                                  Vntill vs and all oure of-spring;
                                
                                  Bot oure lord god almighty
                                
                                  Said we suld haue oile of mercy,
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                                  In þe werldes end, if we wald craue,
                                
                                  Of all þis site vs forto saue;"
                                
                                  All on þis wise when he had talde,
                                
                                  He feled sorows ful many-falde;
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                                  He cried and said him self vnto,
                                
                                  "Allas! caytif what sall I do;
                                
                                  Þat slike sorows er to me send,
                                
                                  And has no medsin me to mend!"
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                                  When eue herd þat he said swa,
                                
                                  Scho wepid and had ful mekell wa,
                                
                                  And vnto god fast gan scho call,
                                
                                  "Lord forgif me þir angers all!

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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 64
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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