ABSTRACT
Goode men and woymen, suche a day 3e schull haue þe Holy-rode- 32 day. Þe whech day 3e schull come to þe chirche, and worschip þe holy rode yn worschip of þe crosse þat Cryst deyet on, to bye al monkynd. Then schull 3e know how þat þe Holy-rode-day þat 250comyth aftyr Astyr, ys callet þe fyndyng of þe crosse. Þat day holy chirch makyth mynde how Seynt Elyn fond þe crosse. But þys day ys callet þe exultacyon of þe crosse, for aftyr þat Saynt Elyn hade 4 fonde þe crosse yn þe tempull of Ierusalem, cryston duden hit gret honowre and worschyppe. But aftyr þat worschip hit was cast downe by a curset kyng, as 3e schull now here, þat come to þe tempull of Ierusalem þeras þe crosse stode rychly arayde, and 1 8 toke þe crosse forth wyth hym. And soo when þe crosse was gon, þe worschyp þerof sesut and deut. Thys kyng was kyng of Perse, and was callet Cosdre, þe whech þat God sufferd to haue suche an 2 euer for þe curset lyfe þat þe pepull was yn, þat aftyr 12 he hadde destroyed 3 fele kyndoms þen he come ynto Ierusalem, and pullet soo þe cyte, and || 3ode ynto þe tempull, and toke all þe 143 a tresowre, and all þe syluer vessel þat he fonde þeryn, and chalays, and vestementys, and bare all away; and soo toke þe holy crosse 16 forth wyth hym ynto his one contrey.
