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.

                                
                                  Wen [Whan.]  my strengþe is me bynome; vondi ich mot [mid] gynne
                                
                                  And myd treson ȝif ich may; eny man to me wynne [eni soule awynne.] 
                                  Line 332 
                                
                                  I ne may her no leng bileue; vor þat [þis.]  me þencheþ longe
                                
                                  Vor þat [þe.]  croys þat is me so [omitted.]  ney; In pyne icham wel [ful.]  stronge
                                
                                  Go henne [hunne.]  anon quaþ Iudas; ne com her neuereft more [com þu her nomore.] 
                                
                                  I-founde it is þei it late be; þat ouercome haþ al [ouercomeþ al.]  þi lore [folio 68] 
                                  Line 336 
                                
                                  He þat her þis dede man; fram deþe broȝte to lyue
                                
                                  Pulte þe [her] wiþ is power; In-to helle grounde blyue
                                
                                  Muche was þat [þe.]  Ioie of þe crois; þat [men] made [makede.]  þo þere
                                
                                  Wiþ gret song and procession; þe quene hi it [his.]  bere
                                  Line 340 
                                
                                  Iudas nom þo cristendom; and þo he ibaptised was
                                
                                  He let him nempne [nemni.]  quiriac; þat er [erst.]  het Iudas
                                
                                  Þe quene of seluer and [of] gold; an [a.]  riche scryne wroȝte
                                
                                  And [omitted.]  of ȝymmes presiouse [preciouses.] ; and þe rode þer-on broȝte
                                  Line 344 
                                
                                  Vp [Vpe.]  þe hul of caluary; þer hi þe rode founde
                                
                                  A noble chirche heo let rere; ihered be þulke [þe.]  stounde
                                
                                  Þo desired[e] [desirede.]  þe quene muche; after þe nailes þre
                                
                                  War-wiþ our lord was; Inailed to þe tre
                                  Line 348 
                                
                                  Quiriac þat het er Iudas; wende [ȝeode.]  to þe place
                                
                                  As þe crois ifounde was; and bad our lordes grace
                                
                                  Þat he ȝif is wille were; þe þre nailes him sende
                                
                                  Þe nailes wiþ gret liȝtinge; out of þe erþe wende
                                  Line 352 
                                
                                  Quiriac þonkede oure lord crist; wiþ gret Ioie he is [hem.]  nom
                                
                                  And tok hem eleyne þe gode quene; þo he to hire com.
                                
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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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