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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                                  Eleyne þat is moder was; to ierusalem he sende
                                
                                  To seche after þe holi crois; and heo gladliche vorþ wende
                                
                                  Þo heo com þuder heo let crie; as heo hadde hire red Inome
                                
                                  Þat alle þe giwes of þe cite; biuore hire scholde come
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                                  Þo þe giwes i-somned were; hi [hadde] schor[t]liche gret [hi hadde schortliche grete.]  fere
                                
                                  Gret conseil hi nome þer-of; wat þe encheson were
                                
                                  Þo sede on þat het Iudas; ich wene þat ich wot.
                                
                                  Wat þis somounce amounty [amounten.]  schal; ȝif ich [hit] telli [telle.]  mot
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                                  Ich wene þe quene enqueri wole; as heo haþ iþoȝt
                                
                                  After þe rode þat ihesu crist; was on to deþe ibroȝt
                                
                                  Þat non of ȝou be so wod; þer-of iknowe be [þat non of ȝou ne beo iknowe; ne so wod ne beo.] ;
                                
                                  Icholle [Ich wole.]  ȝou telle (ȝou) in conseil; wat my fader tolde me
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                                  Þo my fader Symeon; in is deþ vuel lay
                                
                                  In conseil he was to me iknowe; þo he þen [þane.]  deþ isai
                                
                                  Iudas he sede leue sone; ȝif it bitideþ so
                                
                                  Þat me enqueri of þe rode; þat god was on ido
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                                  Loke þat þou be iknowe þer-of; raþer þen me þe quelle
                                
                                  Þat sachee my fader tolde me; in conseil ichulle þe [ich þe.]  telle
                                
                                  He sede me a lute biuore is deþ; þat he was ate [atte.]  dede
                                
                                  To burie in caluarie hul; þe rode þoru comun rede
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                                  Leue [Leoue.]  fader ich [he.]  sede þo; wat eiled [eileþ.]  ȝou alas
                                
                                  Wi wolde ȝe him to deþe do; wen he god was
                                
                                  He sede þoru me nas [nis.]  it noȝt; ac vor he wiþ sede

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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 38
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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