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.

                                  
                                    Seint Quiriac þe Bisschop· prechede Godus lawe:
                                  
                                    Iulian þe luþur Emperour· brouht him seþþe of dawe,
                                    Line 488 
                                  
                                    For þe holi Roode· þat he fond·, and for he men þer-to drouh
                                  
                                    To bi-leeue on Ihesu crist· for al he heold hit wouh;
                                  
                                    Þo þe Emperour hedde seint Quiriac· bi-fore him i-brouht
                                  
                                    He bad him leeuen in heor Maumetes·, and þo he nolde nouht,
                                    Line 492 
                                  
                                    His riht hond he let furst of smyte· And al i-do he seide þis:—
                                  
                                    "For þou hast wel ofte· þer-wiþ i-write· aȝein vr lawe i wis":
                                  
                                    ¶ "Þou gidi hound·" seide þis gode Mon·, "wel hastou i-do by me,
                                  
                                    Of my good þou weore wel vnderstonde· wel ouȝt i blesse þe,
                                    Line 496 
                                  
                                    For þou hast bi-nome me þulke lime· þat haþ me ofte to sunne i-drawe,
                                  
                                    For ich habbe þer-wiþ ofte i-write· a-ȝeyn Ihesu cristes lawe,
                                  
                                    Þe while þat ich was Gyew· and on him bi-leeuede nouht:"
                                  
                                    Þo þe Emperour saiȝ þat he nolde· nout tornen his þouht
                                    Line 500 
                                  
                                    He ȝaf him drinken welled led· and in his mouþ helde þere,
                                  
                                    Euere sat þis gode mon· as þeih him noþing nere;
                                  
                                    Vp A Gledeire he leide him seþþe· ouer a gret fuir and strong,
                                  
                                    To Rosten as me deþ versch flesch· grees was þer Among,
                                    Line 504 
                                  
                                    For þat fuir was· al of Col· and grece· and þat salt was eke þer-to,
                                  
                                    And of flesch þat was eke for brend· þe woundes he salte also,
                                  
                                    Þo heo ne mihte torne þer-wiþ his þouht· ne to deþ him bringe,
                                  
                                    Heo bi-þouhten hem· ȝif heo mihte· wiþ eny oþer þinge;
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                                    ¶ "Quiriac" he seide· "þenk on þi-self· and do aftur my lore,
                                  
                                    Ȝif þou nult not· vr godes honoure· bote þow wolle more,

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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 59
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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