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 when þai saw þe fyr on brede,
                                
                                  In þaire hertis þan had þai drede:
                                
                                  Vnto þe quene al gun þai cry,
                                
                                  "Lady, of vs here haue mercy,
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                                  For we wote no thing how it was;
                                
                                  If any wote þan wote Iudas,
                                
                                  For he was ane old prophet sun,
                                
                                  Þe laws wele better mai he cun;
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                                  His elders war of þe alde state,
                                
                                  And of þaire werkes sumdel he wate."
                                
                                  Þan lete scho al þo oþer go,
                                
                                  And Iudas toke hir vnto;
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                                  And for he wald tell no resoun,
                                
                                  He was done in depe dungeoun,
                                
                                  And þore he lay in mirknes grete,
                                
                                  Seuyn dayes, with-outen drink or mete.
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                                  For hunger he cried on þe seuynd day,
                                
                                  "Saue me and I sall yow say
                                
                                  Whore ȝe sall fynd þe rude tre,
                                
                                  Als my fader tolde vnto me;
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                                  Vnto me es þis mater dym,
                                
                                  Bot sum knawing I haue by him."
                                
                                  Fro prisun þan was Iudas tone, [folio 151:1] 
                                
                                  And furth went with þam ilkone
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                                  Vnto þe mount of Caluary;
                                
                                  Þam folowd ful grete cumpany.
                                
                                  And when þai come whore þai wald be,
                                
                                  Þan Iudas knelid doun on his kne,
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                                  He said, "lord, þat all has in waldë,
                                
                                  If tales be trew þat men has talde,
                                
                                  If þou be he þis werld bigan,
                                
                                  And verrayli es both god and man,
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                                  And of a maiden in erth was born,
                                
                                  Als sere prophetis haue said biforn,
                                
                                  Send us sum takening of þi grace,
                                
                                  To find þe rude tre in þis place,

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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 93
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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