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.

                                  
                                    Al vr kuyndes· haþ lost vr kende;
                                  
                                    Til God þat dyed· for vch a kuynde
                                  
                                    For Monnes kuynde deyde·:

XXXII.

                                    Foules fellen· out of heore fliht,
                                    Line 408 
                                  
                                    Beestes gan Belwe· in eueri binne:
                                  
                                    Cros· whon Crist· on þe was cliht,
                                  
                                    Whi noldestou not· of mournyng minne?
                                  
                                    Þe Cros seide· ladi briht,
                                    Line 412 
                                  
                                    I· bar ones þi fruit· for monnes sinne,
                                  
                                    More to amende· monnes riht
                                  
                                    Þen for eny weolþe· þat I· gan winne;
                                  
                                    Wiþ blod· God bouȝte his broþer;
                                    Line 416 
                                  
                                    Whon Adam· Godes biddyng brak;
                                  
                                    He bot a bite· þat made vs blak,
                                  
                                    Til fruit weore tied· on treo wiþ tak·,
                                  
                                    O· fruit· for anoþer·:
                                    Line 420

XXXIII.

                                    Sin Cristes Cros· þat kepeþ ȝifte
                                  
                                    Graunted· of þe fadres graunt,
                                  
                                    I· was loked· I· schulde vp-lifte
                                  
                                    Godes sone· and maydenes faunt,
                                    Line 424 
                                  
                                    No Mon hedde· scheld of schrifte;
                                  
                                    Þe deuel stod lyk· A lyon raumpaunt,
                                  
                                    Mony folk· In-to helle he clihte,
                                  
                                    Til þe crosses dunt· ȝaf him a daunt;
                                    Line 428 
                                  
                                    Mi dedes are bounden· and booked;
                                  
                                    Alle þe werkes· þat I· haue wrouht
                                  
                                    Weore founden· in þe Faderes· fore-þouht,
                                  
                                    Þerfore ladi· lakkeþ me nouht,
                                    Line 432 
                                  
                                    I· dude· as me was looked:

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

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