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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Anno gracie xxvijo, Tiberii xijo.

This ȝer Pilate was after sent
and made hegh iustice in Iude,
vnder whom toke iuggemynt
Ihesu Crist to deth on tre.

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But of his burthe and byggynynge
loke her-after and knowe ȝe moun,
and also wayte of his endyng
in Ihesu Cristes passion.
Of Iudas also, sothe [to] say,
thowe sal fynde in the selue place,
and how Ierusalem rede thow may
thurgh vengeaunce after destruet was.