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.

                                
                                  Pult in þyn hed· here atte ȝate·, and stond þi-self wiþ-oute":
                                
                                  He pult[e] in his hed·, as he bad·, and bi-heold al aboute;
                                
                                  So murie þouȝte him neuere in no stude·; þeiȝ his bodi weore wiþ-oute,
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                                  ¶ Him þhouȝte· ȝif he moste þere· bi-holden eny stounde,
                                
                                  Euermore he mihte in ioye libbe·, in limes hol and sounde·:
                                
                                  ¶ Amidde þe place· þat was so feir· he sauh a feir welle,
                                
                                  Of whom alle þe watres on eorþe comeþ·, as þe Bok vs deeþ telle;
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                                  Ouer þe welle stod a treo·, wiþ bowes brode and lere [? sere.] ,
                                
                                  Ac hit ne bar. Lef· ne Rynde·, bote as hit for-Oldet were;
                                
                                  A· Neddre hit hedde bi-clupt a-boute·, al naket wiþ-outen skynne;
                                
                                  Þat was þe treo· and þe Neddre· þat furst made Adam do synne:
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                                  He bi-heold eft sone in atte ȝate·, þat treo eft sone he seih,
                                
                                  Swiþe feir hed· and i-woxen· vp to heuene an heih;
                                
                                  A-nowarde he sayh· a ȝong smal child·, in smale cloþes i-wounde:
                                
                                  Þe Roote of þe treo him þhouȝte tilde· a-doun to helle grounde;
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                                  Abeles soule his broþur also· him þhouȝte in helle he seih;
                                
                                  Þo drof þe Angel· him from þe ȝate· þat he no more ne seih:
                                
                                  ¶ "Þe child," quaþ þe Angel·, "þat þou seȝe· anouwarde on þe treo,
                                
                                  Þat was Godus sone· þat wolde on eorþe· for þi fader sunnes beo,
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                                  And þe Oyle of Milce bringe mid him· whon þe tyme i-fuld is
                                
                                  To smere þer-wiþ· and bringen of peyne· þi fader and alle his":

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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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