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.

                                
                                  Þer ouer eode [ȝeode.]  mony [meni.]  amon; þe wule [while.]  it þer lay
                                
                                  Nuste [noȝt] alle wat it was; þat defoulede it aday [aledai.] 
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  Þe quene of saba com þeruorþ; and [omitted.]  anon so heo it isei [iseȝ.] 
                                
                                  Honured[e] [Honurede.]  it [wel] vaire and sat akne [akneo.] ; heo nolde come þerney [þerneȝ.] 
                                
                                  Bi anoþer wei heo wende uorþ; to salomon heo com
                                
                                  As heo him hadde wide [ȝurne.]  isoȝt; to lerny of is wisdom
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  Þoru grace þat our lord [louerd.]  hire ȝef [ȝaf.] ; to salomon heo sede
                                
                                  Þat þat [þe.]  tre ne scholde noȝt ligge þer; ȝif [if.]  he dude bi hire rede
                                
                                  Vor þer scholde ȝut a mon; deie on [in.]  þulke tre
                                
                                  Þoru wam [wham.]  al þe lawe of giwes; destrued scholde be
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  Salomon it let nyme sone; and vnder erþe [vrþe.]  it caste
                                
                                  Wel depe [deope.]  [fur] fram alle men [MS. mem.] ; and burede [burie.]  it swiþe [wel.]  vaste [folio 66] 
                                
                                  So longe so it þer-after were [So þat longe þat þer after|ward.] ; a uair walle [welle.]  þer sprong
                                
                                  And a uair [water] seþþe wiþ god [MS. gret, H. god.]  fisc; boþe dep [fisch gret.]  and long
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  Mony [Meni.]  sikemen þer [þat þer.]  come; and hor vet wesche þere [here fet wette þere.] 
                                
                                  Oþer hoden [Here hon|den.]  oþer baþede al; pur hol anon [hi] were
                                
                                  Þat water hi honurde muche [moche.] ; and wolde þer-Inne wade
                                
                                  Ac hi nuste noþing [noȝt.]  of þe tre; þat al þe vertu made
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  Seþþe it was þer-after longe; þat our lord anerþe [an vrþe.]  com
                                
                                  And þat folc bispek [MS. bi|speke, H. bispac.]  is deþ; and hor red [and here red.]  þer-of nom
                                
                                  Þis tre bigon to flete [fleote.]  anon; as our lordes [louerdes.]  wille was
                                
                                  Þe giwes come and founde þat tre [fonde þe treo.]  fletynge þer [omitted.]  bi cas
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  Hi nome it vp uor it was vil; and ileie hadde þer longe
                                
                                  And made [makede.]  þer-of þe holi rode; our lord [þer] on to honge

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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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