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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Quare non obseruamus ieiunium eo tempore quo Christus ieiunauit. Magister Iohannes Beleth.

Now is to knowe a nedefull thing
to which I rede ow take gode hede,
whi we hold not oure fastyng
that tyme that Crist did, as was nede.
For Crist, as I haue told by-fore,
was folowet opon the twolft daie,
when he of elde was bout more
bygynning thritte ȝer in fai,
Then his fasting began he
of faurty daies, as I fynd,
faur skilles whi so don not we
schowe I wil whil I haue mynde.