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 vnt[o] god he gan him mene;
                                
                                  Sitand vnder þat haly tre,
                                
                                  Grete sorow in his hert had he,
                                  Line 568 
                                
                                  And in his sorowing said he þus,
                                
                                  Miserere mei deus et c'.
                                
                                  And so he made his mis to mende
                                
                                  Þe sawter buke right to þe ende;
                                  Line 572 
                                
                                  And in remission of his syn
                                
                                  To mak a kirk he gan bigin,
                                
                                  And þare-obout he begged fast,
                                
                                  Till foure and thwenty ȝeres war past;
                                  Line 576 
                                
                                  And bisid him both day and night
                                
                                  With werkmen þat war wise and wight;
                                
                                  And for he was a synfull man
                                
                                  Of god þus was he warned þan:—
                                  Line 580 
                                
                                  "A hows to me saltou neuer make,
                                
                                  And þat es for þi sinnes sake." [folio 79b:2] 
                                
                                  Dauid answerd and said in hy,
                                
                                  "Lord, wha sall make þi hows bot I,
                                  Line 584 
                                
                                  Wha sall vnto þi werk tak tent,
                                
                                  Sen vnto me no sele es sent."
                                
                                  "Salomon þi sun," said he,
                                
                                  "Sall mak a temple vnto me,
                                  Line 588 
                                
                                  Þat euer-mare sal be in minde,
                                
                                  And in meneing omang man-kinde."
                                
                                  Þan dauid wist righ[t] wele inogh,
                                
                                  Þat his life fast till ende drogh,
                                  Line 592 
                                
                                  Of þat ceté gert he call
                                
                                  Þe eldest men and maisters all;
                                
                                  And hastily þai come him till
                                
                                  Forto wit what was his will;
                                  Line 596 
                                
                                  Þan vnto þam al þus said he,
                                
                                  "Takes salomon my sun for me,
                                
                                  For, sirs, als sune I sal be ded,
                                
                                  And god has chosen him in my stede;
                                  Line 600 
                                
                                  His corown so he gaf oway

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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 78
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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