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.

                                
                                  þer florisht an, as ȝe haue herde,
                                
                                  þe cros a-pon þat ilk ȝerde.
                                
                                  ¶ Heliseus on oþer-wise
                                
                                  did a dedeman for to rise;
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                                  þe staf þat he a-pon him did
                                
                                  þe crosse hit bare to tak in hede.
                                
                                  ¶ quen dauid faȝt againe þat etin
                                
                                  has he noȝt his staf for-ȝetin;
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                                  vn-to þe bataile he hit bare,
                                
                                  muȝt na kinge squorde do mare.
                                
                                  þe signe of tav. in alde lawes
                                
                                  be-takenis cros in our dawes,
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                                  þe men at þar wiþ blessed ware
                                
                                  hit helped ham fra mis-fare;
                                
                                  tav and cros baþ ar as an,
                                
                                  bot. tav has ȝerde a-bouen nan.
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                                  of croice in þe alde testament
                                
                                  was mani bisening, qua to cowde tent,
                                
                                  ¶ croice is, qua-sum [MS. qua|sim.]  wil or nay,
                                
                                  baner of hali kirk to-day;
                                  Line 372 
                                
                                  man has noȝt herde þat fole be lorne
                                
                                  þat hali crosse has wiþ ham borne.
                                
                                  bot has be-tid, baþ now and are,
                                
                                  þe lesse folk ouer-come þe mare,
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                                  þer croice was stad atte ani fiȝt,
                                
                                  if þe dude be tane wiþ riȝt.
                                
                                  Of cros to telle for-gete I noght,
                                
                                  of cros þe formast man was wroȝt,
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                                  of cros þe first of alle wifis;
                                
                                  of cros god boȝt our saule liuis,
                                
                                  þer-on he gaf him-self raunsoun,
                                
                                  and of him-self made gunfanoun.
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                                  þe cros of medicine beris bote,
                                
                                  baþ in frute and als in rote;
                                
                                  in cros hit was for vs þe flour
                                
                                  þat we haue þorou sa grete honour.

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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 118
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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