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.

                                
                                  Þe maistri ouere zon fals sarzyn."
                                  Line 136 
                                
                                  On þis manere all prayed þai fast;
                                
                                  And ihesuc herd þam at þe last,
                                
                                  And ordand to his trew serwand
                                
                                  Of þe sarzin to hawe ouer [MS. euer.]  hand,
                                  Line 140 
                                
                                  And to destroy him in þat place.
                                
                                  Blisced be he þat gaf slike grace.
                                
                                  Sone when þe sarzins saw þis sight,
                                
                                  How þaire maister to ded was dight,
                                  Line 144 
                                
                                  Swilk drede in hert had þai ilkane,
                                
                                  Þat þai oblist þam noght allane,
                                
                                  To hald þe couenand made byforne,
                                
                                  Bot new athes all haue þai sworn,
                                  Line 148 
                                
                                  With eraclius forto stand,
                                
                                  In ill and gude, with hert and hand,
                                
                                  And wilfully all hale hete þai,
                                
                                  Forto leue on cristes lay,
                                  Line 152 
                                
                                  And forto bycum cristen men,
                                
                                  And crist for þaire god euer to ken.
                                
                                  Sone when eraclius saw þat sight, [folio 178:2] 
                                
                                  He resayued þam with hert ful light,
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  And cownsaild þam with wordes fre,
                                
                                  Þat þai suld all baptist be,
                                
                                  And trow in crist with gude entent,
                                
                                  And to his saw all þai assent.
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  So war þai baptist all þat day,
                                
                                  And lifed euer in cristes lay.
                                
                                  Veraclius [So in MS.]  when þis was done,
                                
                                  In-to pers puruaid him ful sone,
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  And with him all þat cumpany
                                
                                  Þat bifore lifed in maumetry.
                                
                                  And als he went thurgh-out þat land,
                                
                                  All þe folk þat he þare fand
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  Ouþer war þai baptist sone
                                
                                  Or els þai war vnto ded done.
                                
                                  Þus conquert he all þat cuntré,

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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 126
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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