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 oile of mercy him to send,
                                
                                  So þat he might in liking lend:
                                
                                  So als he made his praiers fast,
                                
                                  God sent saint michael at þe last;
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                                  He bad þat seth he suld vp rise
                                
                                  And said vnto him on þis wise:—
                                
                                  "Seth," he said, "what sekes þou here?
                                
                                  I am michaell goddes messangere,
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                                  My lord of heuyn has ordand me
                                
                                  Ouer all his men keper to be;
                                
                                  And sertanly to þe I say,
                                
                                  Þat þe thar nowþer grete ne pray
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                                  Efter þe oile of mercy here,
                                
                                  For þou gettes it on no manere,
                                
                                  Vntill a tyme if þou tak tent
                                
                                  When fiue thousand ȝere er went,
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                                  Twa hundret and twenty þar-till,
                                
                                  And also aght als es goddes will;
                                
                                  Þan sal god send doun his sun
                                
                                  Crist in-to þe werld at won;
                                  Line 192 
                                
                                  For mannes sins þan sal he dy,
                                
                                  And so fra bale he sall þam by;
                                
                                  Grauen he sall be in a stede
                                
                                  And rise þe thrid day right fra þe ded,
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  And lif ogayne, in lim and lith;
                                
                                  And adam þan sall rise him with;
                                
                                  Adam and all his of-spring,
                                
                                  Þat god vntill his blis will bring;
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                                  With crist þan sall þai right vp ryght [folio 77b:2] 
                                
                                  And wende to won in lastand light;
                                
                                  Þan sal þi fader right vp rise
                                
                                  And wend to welth in paradis;
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                                  And þat same crist als I tell þe
                                
                                  In þe flum sal baptist be;
                                
                                  To saue man saules he sall be send
                                
                                  And all fals trowth he sall defende;

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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 67
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1871.
Subject terms: Crosses -- Legends.

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