De quarto festo vocato encennia niorum.
The furth fest thei fast bifore,
Encennia hit callide was,
ffor temple halowyng & no more
this name skilfully hit has.
And, as Ierom makes mynde,
the Iewes temple was halowet thrye,
enes in Septembre, as I fynde,
by Salomon kyng solempnely.
Eft quen þe Iewes comen wer
from Babyloyn out of bandoun,
halowide it was, as I say her,
In March with gret deuocioun.
the thrid time halowet was hit,
quen Antiochus þe grete kyng
defoulide hit & Iewis flitt
with mavmetry þer-in dwellyng.
Iudas Machabeus tho
halowide then hit, as I ȝou say,
In Decembre, after sich wo
euen þe fyue & thritty day,
And that halowyng vset was
In Cristes time, as rede we,
and as sayn Ion her mynde mas
by this clause, as ȝe moun se:
Iohannes x: ffacta sunt Encennia in Ierusolimis, & yemps erat.
therfore to sewe our faders dede
that four sith fasten in this maner,
therfore four sith hit is nede
we fasten, that now lyuen her.
