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.

                                
                                  He answerd þam with wordes fre
                                
                                  And said "ȝe gett none nailes for me,
                                  Line 816 
                                
                                  God has sent on me his merke
                                
                                  So þat I may wirk no werk;"
                                
                                  In his bosum he hid his hand [folio 81] 
                                
                                  And said he hurt it on a brand,
                                  Line 820 
                                
                                  "Þar-on," he said, "I haue slike pine
                                
                                  Þat I hope my hand to tyne."
                                
                                  Þan answerd þe iews kene
                                
                                  And said vnto him all in tene:
                                  Line 824 
                                
                                  "All for noght þou feynes þe,
                                
                                  All þi sare-nes will we se,
                                
                                  And bot we find þi tales trew
                                
                                  Ful sare it sall þi seluen rew."
                                  Line 828 
                                
                                  Þus thai thret him in þaire saw,
                                
                                  And gert him þare his hand out draw,
                                
                                  Þan was þare schewed in þat place
                                
                                  Grete gudenes, thurgh goddes grace;
                                  Line 832 
                                
                                  His hand semed als it war sare
                                
                                  And hurting had it neuer þe mare;
                                
                                  Þe iews saw þat it was so,
                                
                                  And namore said þai him vnto;
                                  Line 836 
                                
                                  Furth come þan þe smithes whife,
                                
                                  A fell woman and full of strife,
                                
                                  By þe iews þare þai stode,
                                
                                  Scho spac hir husband litill gude;
                                  Line 840 
                                
                                  "Sir," scho said, and loud gan cry,
                                
                                  "Sen when had þou slike malady;
                                
                                  Ȝistereuen, when þe day was gane,
                                
                                  Euill on þi handes had þou nane,
                                  Line 844 
                                
                                  And sen sekenes es sent to þe
                                
                                  Þir men sall noght vnserued be,
                                
                                  Þai sall haue nayles or þai ga,
                                
                                  Als sone my self sall þam ma."
                                  Line 848 
                                
                                  Scho blew þe belise ferly fast,
                                
                                  And made þe yren hate at þe last.

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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 85
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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