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.

                                  
                                    His schewing here noght els it ment
                                  
                                    Bot þat he sall till þe erth be sent;
                                  
                                    He sall fordo þi fader syn,
                                  
                                    And vnto welth ogayne him win;
                                    Line 284 
                                  
                                    He es þe oile of mercy right,
                                  
                                    Þe whilk was to þi fader hight,
                                  
                                    When he fra paradis gan wende,
                                  
                                    Thurght formast fanding of þe fende;
                                    Line 288 
                                  
                                    Fra bale to blis þis barn sal bring
                                  
                                    Þi fader and all his of-spring [MS. of of spring.] ,
                                  
                                    Þat ordaind er in þe werldes ende,
                                  
                                    Fra wa till endles welth to wende."
                                    Line 292 
                                  
                                    Þe angell þan toke kirnels thre
                                  
                                    Þat war tane of þat same tre,
                                  
                                    Of þe whilk oure bale bigan,
                                  
                                    And vnto seth þus said he þan:—
                                    Line 296 
                                  
                                    "With-in thre daies when þou cumes hame [folio 78:2] 
                                  
                                    Sall þi fader dy Adam,
                                  
                                    And in a graue he sall be graid,
                                  
                                    And, when he es in erth so laid,
                                    Line 300 
                                  
                                    Þir kirnels þat I gif þe to
                                  
                                    Þan in his mowth þou sall þam do,
                                  
                                    For of þam sall thre wandes spring,
                                  
                                    And ilkone sall be of sere thing:
                                    Line 304 
                                  
                                    Þe first of cyder suthly es,
                                  
                                    Þe secund sal be of cypres,
                                  
                                    And þe thrid of pine sal be;
                                  
                                    And þai bitaken þe trenité,
                                    Line 308 
                                  
                                    In þe cyder þe fader alweldand,
                                  
                                    And in cypres þe sun we vnderstand,
                                  
                                    In þe pyne þe hali gaste bi skill."
                                  
                                    Þus tald þe angell seth vntill,
                                    Line 312 
                                  
                                    And when he was þus kyndely kend,
                                  
                                    Hastily hamward gan he wend,
                                  
                                    And hame also with him he had
                                  
                                    Þe kirnels als þe angell bad.

                                    Line 316

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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 70
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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