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.

                                
                                  And helede þer-wiþ seke Men·, two and Fourti ȝeer·:
                                
                                  ¶ Seþþe þo he dyen scholde· þe ȝerden he sette er
                                
                                  Vndur þe Hul of Tabor·, and dyede him-self þer:
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                                  Þo stoden þe ȝerden grene· More þen A þousund ȝeer
                                
                                  Forte seint Dauid· þe kyng com· þat was of gret pouweer,
                                
                                  So þat he was·, þorwh þe holigost·, i-hote forte heiȝe
                                
                                  To þe Hul of Tabor·, in þe lond of Arabye;
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                                  Þat he þulke ȝerden fette· and heom wiþ him nome:
                                
                                  Nyne dayes· he was þiderward· er he þider come:
                                
                                  Wiþ gret honour he nom hem vp·, þo he þe ȝerden fond: [folio 29:2] 
                                
                                  Þe swotnesse þat þer-of com· fulde al þat lond:
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                                  Wiþ gret Melodye of his Harpe· seint Dauid þe ȝerden nom,
                                
                                  And heom hom to Jerusalem· þe Niþe day hom he com;
                                
                                  In a priue stude he hem sette·, þo hit was in þe Euen|ynge
                                
                                  Forte a Morwe þat he seȝe· whodere he hem miȝte bringe;
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                                  A Morwe· þo he com hem to· to one ȝerde heo weren alle i-come,
                                
                                  And i-Mored also faste· þat heo ne mihte ben a-wey i-nome;
                                
                                  ¶ Þo heo weoren alle· to on by-come· what bi-tokneþ þis
                                
                                  But Fader· and Sone· and Holigost· and al o god hit is?
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                                  ¶ Seint Dauid· a-boute þis ȝerden· a strong wal he lette arere,
                                
                                  And nom good ȝeme· hou longe he woxe·, from ȝere· to ȝere;
                                
                                  Wiþ a Cercle· he bond hym a-boute·, ȝer after ȝere,
                                
                                  Þat he mihte atte laste i-wite· hou old þat treo were;
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                                  So þat wiþ-Inne þritti ȝer· þis treo wex wel heiȝe,
                                
                                  Ac hit wox no more afterward·, and þat he wuste· bi þe seluerne byȝe;
                                
                                  Ac euere in on afterward· Feir and Grene hit stod;
                                
                                  Seint Dauid· hit honourede wel·, for he wuste þat hit was good:

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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 29
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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