By-seche we þe holy Roode· þat brouhte þe deuel to grounde, [folio 30:1]
And seint Quiriac· and seint Eleyne·, þorwh whom heo was i-founde,
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Þat heo bi-sechen God for vs·, þat on þe Roode schedde his blood,
Þat we mote to þe ioye of heuene come· þat is so swete and god. Amen·
ÞE holi Roode was i-founde· as ȝe witeþ in May,
Honoured he was seþþe· in Septembre· þe holi Rode day;
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Mony a ȝer þer was by-twene·, riȝt is þat we telle,
Hou þis feste was by-gonne· for-soþe lyȝen i nulle:
A kyng þer was on eorþe þo·, Cosdre was his nome,
Cristene Men þat he mihte fynde· he brouȝt hem alle to schome;
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Wiþ his luþer power he won also· al þe londes þer-aboute,
Þo he com to Ierusalem· of þe sepulcre he hedde doute,
Þat vr lord was Inne i-leyd· a-non so he þis i-seih,
For al his power þat was so luþer· ȝit ne dorst he come þer neih,
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Ac a partye of þe swete Crois· þat seint Eleyne þider brouhte
He tok wiþ him· and wende a-ȝein· no more þidere he ne þouhte;
Of þulke treo· he was wel proud·, þeih he him-self heþene were,
A· swiþe heiȝ tour of Gold and Seluer· he let him sone a-rere,
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Of ȝimmes· and of stones precious· þer-aboute he lette do;
Fourme of Sonne· and of Mone· and of Sterres also
Schinen·, as hit hem-self were·, and tornen a-boute faste,
And þundringe he made ek· þat þe folk ofte a-gaste,
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Mid smale holes þorwh queyntyse· þat watur ofte þere
He made hit ofte to grounde falle· as þeiȝ hit Reyn were,
As ferforþ as couþe eny mon· make mid queyntyse,
