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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.

batailes that he made to theym / and made costdroe to flee vnto the cyté of thelyfonte / And at the last cosdroe had the flyxe in his bely / and wolde therfore crowne hys sone kyng / whiche was named mendasa And whan syroys his eldest sone herde herof / he made alyaunce wyth heracle / and pursued his fader wyth his noble peple and set him in bondes: and susteynid hym wyth brede of trybulacion and wyth water of anguysh / And at the last he made to shote arowes at him bi cause he wolde not byleue in god / and soo deyed: And after this thyng he sent to heracle the patryarke. the tree of the crosse: and all the prysoneres / And heracle bare in to Iherusalem the precyous tree of the crosse And thus it is rede in many cronycles also. Syble sayth thus of the tree of the crosse / that the blessyd tree of the crosse was thre tymes wyth the paynems· as it is sayd in thystorye tripertyte: O thryes blessid tree / on whiche god was stratched / This perauenture is sayd for the lyf of nature / of grace: and of glory: whiche came of the crosse / At constantynople a Iewe entryd in to the chirche of saynt sophie / and considered that he was there alone / and saw an ymage of Ihesu cryst / And took his swerde and smote thymage in the throte / and anone the blood guysshid oute and sprange in the face and on the hede of the Iewe / And he thenne was aferde and took thimage / and cast it in to a pytte / And anone fledde away: And it happed that a crysten man met him and saw him all blody And sayd to him / fro whens comest thou thou hast slayne some man / and he sayd I haue not: The crysten man sayd verely thou hast commysed some omycide / For thou art all bespronge wyth the blood / and the Iew sayd. verely the god of the crysten [folio Cclxix:1] men is grete and the fayth of hym is ferme and approued in all thynges / I haue smyten noo man but I haue smyten thymage of Ihesu Cryst· and anone yssued blood of his throte / And thenne the Iewe brought the crysten man to þe pytte / And there drewe out that hooly ymage· And yet is sene on this daye the wounde in the throte of thymage / And anon the Iewe bycame a good crysten man and was baptysed. In syrye in the Cyté of baruth
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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.
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1871.
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Crosses -- Legends.

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