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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Uythe zardys grete þou ware alle to-daschyd, With scorgys smerte alle to-laschyd; Lord, socowre me of synnys thys, Of stlowthe and eke of ydylnes. Line 68

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The crown of thorn on þi hed preste, Thyn here to-tere, thy skyn to-breste. Lord, socowre me of synnys thys, Of stlowthe and eke of Idylnes. Line 72

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TO þe pyller, lorde, also, With a rope men bownd þe too, Hard drawe and streynyd faste; The senews from þe bondys braste. Line 76 Lorde, lose me of bondys in dystresse, Thowe I ded onkend a-geyns kyndnesse.
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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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