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Quare non obseruamus ieiunium eo tempore quo
Christus ieiunauit. Magister Iohannes Beleth.
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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.
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,
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.
of faurty daies, as I fynd,
faur skilles whi so don not we
schowe I wil whil I haue mynde.
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