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.

                                  
                                    Seoþþe þer com an Emperour· þat het Constantyn;
                                  
                                    In werre and batayle he was so muche·, þat þer nas no fyn;
                                  
                                    Seþþe comen his fon and wonnen· muchedel of his londe;
                                  
                                    He ȝarkede a day his Ost· a-ȝeyn heom forte stonde;
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                                    ¶ As he touward þe Batayle wende· he bi-heold vp an heiȝ,
                                  
                                    Him þhouȝte þat a feir Crois· In heuene þat he seiȝ;
                                  
                                    Lettres he sayȝ þer-on i-write·, he hem bi-gon to Rede·:
                                  
                                    "Wiþ þis signe þow schalt Mayster beo·," þulke lettres sede,
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                                    "And wite þe from þy fon·, by daye· and eke by nihte,
                                  
                                    Whon þow þenkest þer-vppon·, spede þou schalt in fihte":
                                  
                                    ¶ Þe Emperour þis vndurstood·, þeih he Heþene were,
                                  
                                    A· Crois he lette make sone· þat his Men by-foren him bere,
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                                    In-stude of his Baner·, In Batayle a-non,
                                  
                                    And þorwh þe holy Crois· he ouercom alle his fon
                                  
                                    And won þe Maystrie·, and al his lond· in a luytel stounde þere:
                                  
                                    Muche he þouhte þer-afterward· what þulke signe were;
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                                    Þe wiseste Men of al his lond· bi-fore him he lette bringe,
                                  
                                    And enquerede of þe Crois· what weore þe tokenynge:
                                  
                                    Heo seiden him· þat in Ierusalem· God was don on þe Roode,
                                  
                                    And þe Gywes þat Crois hudden þere·, as heo hit vndur|stode:
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                                    "Whon ichabbe," quaþ þe Emperour, "þer þorwh· my fon i-brouht to grounde,
                                  
                                    Ne worþ ich neuere glad of herte·, er þe holy Cr[o]is beo i-founde":
                                  
                                    Þo þe Emperour· of þe holy Roode· so feir Miracle i-seiȝ,
                                  
                                    He let him Baptiȝen of seint Siluestre·, þe Pope þat þo was neih:

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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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