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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Secundo propter probacionem.

The secunde cause wyterly
why Crist abode the thrydde day
was forto preue no fantasy
was in his werke but al werray,
ffor right as two men other thre
moun ber wittenesse of that sothe ys,
so in thre dayes may preuet be
that was werrayly ded i-wys.