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 angel þou schalt þer Ifynde; þat drof me out at þe ȝate
                                
                                  Say ich abide þulke biheste; me þencþ it comeþ to late
                                
                                  And þat elde me haþ ouercome; þat I ne may libbe longe
                                
                                  Bede him þat ich deie mote; and þe oile of mylce auonge [MS. auonde.] 
                                  Line 44 
                                
                                  Ine can nanne wei quaþ is sone; þuderward ich wene
                                
                                  Leue sone quaþ adam; þe wei is wel i-sene
                                
                                  Wen þou comst to þe ende of þis ualeie; a grene wei þou schalt wende
                                
                                  Þat riȝt euene estward geþ; to parais last þe on ende
                                  Line 48 
                                
                                  Þer-bi wende þi moder and ich; þo ich parais uor-let
                                
                                  Euerich stepe þat we on stepe; uorbarnde under our uet
                                
                                  Ne myȝte neuereft þer gras growe; and al þe oþer wei is grene
                                
                                  For þe foule sunne þat we dude; our stapes worþ isene
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  Þer-by þou myȝt wiþþoute defaute; to parays euene gon [folio 64b] 
                                
                                  Seth nom is fader blessyng; and wende him uorþ anon
                                
                                  Þe stapes he vond uorwelwed; as is fader him sede
                                
                                  Þo he to þe ȝate com; he ne dorste go ner vor drede
                                  Line 56 
                                
                                  An angel com sone to þe ȝate; and escte wat he soȝte
                                
                                  He sede þat to him an ernde; fram his fader he broȝte
                                
                                  Þat he was old and weri ilyued; and þat him longede sore
                                
                                  After þe swete oyl of mylce; uor he ne myȝte libbe nammore
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  Ȝe quaþ þe angel is he so; he ne schal þer-of noȝt doute

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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 22
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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