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.

                                
                                  If he now þat sand to me will send,
                                
                                  Of all my sorow it sall me mend:"
                                
                                  "And sun," he said, "I sall þe say
                                
                                  Wharby þou sall ken þe way:
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                                  Þou sall sone find a grene gate
                                
                                  Euyn vnto paradis ȝate;
                                
                                  Wend estward and for no thing let,
                                
                                  Vntill þou in þat way be set;
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                                  Þan many fotesteps saltou se,
                                
                                  Bath of þi moder and of me;
                                
                                  For by þat ilk way went we twa,
                                
                                  Þi moder and I with-outen ma,
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                                  When we war put out of þat blis
                                
                                  To won in midelerth for oure mis;
                                
                                  And þe sin of vs twa allane,
                                
                                  Was so grete and god with-gane,
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                                  Þat in what stedes oure fete gan fall, [folio 77b] 
                                
                                  Þare groued neuer gres, ne neuer sall,
                                
                                  Bot euermore be ded and dri,
                                
                                  And falow, and fade, for oure foly;
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                                  Þus saltou find, with-outen mis,
                                
                                  Right to þe ȝates of paradis."
                                
                                  Seth es went, with sorows sad,
                                
                                  Furth right, als his fader bad,
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                                  And hastily he fand þe way,
                                
                                  Als adam vntill him gan say,
                                
                                  With welkit steppes, many ane,
                                
                                  Als his fader bifore had gane;
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                                  And euen he held þat ilk gate
                                
                                  Vntill he come to paradis ȝate:
                                
                                  On his face þan fell he downe
                                
                                  And kest pouder opon his croune
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                                  Ful mekill murni[n]g gan he make,
                                
                                  And sorowed for his fader sake;
                                
                                  And vnto god fast gan he cri
                                
                                  Of adam forto haue mercy,

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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 66
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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