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.

                                  
                                    Þei [Sai.]  þat þou nart cristene noȝt [cristine nert noȝt.] ; and ichulle [ich wole.]  de-boner be
                                  
                                    And Murilif [þe murie lyf þat.]  þou schalt lede; and þat þou schalt ise
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                                    Þe gode mon nolde do after him þo [nolde after him do.] ; a caudron he let fulle
                                  
                                    Wiþ seþing oile vol Inouȝ; and let him þer-Inne pulle [þeron pulte.] 
                                  
                                    Þer-Inne he seþ þen [þe,]  godemon; vorte he weri was
                                  
                                    Þe godemon herede our lord crist [Eure crist herede þe gode man.] ; and noþe [neuere þe.]  worse he [him.]  nas
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                                    So þat þe emperour isei; þat he ne miȝte him ouer|come
                                  
                                    Wiþ a swerd he smot him þoru þe herte [þurf þe side.] ; þo [and þo.]  he was out Inome
                                  
                                    And is soule to heuene wende; after þis tormentynge [folio 71b] 
                                  
                                    God uor þe loue of Seint quiriac; to þulke Joie ous bringe.
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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 60
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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