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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Tercio ascendit letantur quia iubilantibus Angelis.

Also he stegh vp ioyfully,
for aungels in heuen light
maden mirthe and melody
when thai seghen that ilk sight.

Psalmus: Ascendit deus in [iu]b[i]lacione[m].

And Austyn sais when Crist vp steghe
alle heuen schuld haue for that grete drede,
‘Sterres merueile steking on hegh,
alle sainteȝ enioy for that dede,

‘Trompes ȝiuen a blisful soun,
and that glade wer suetely sing,
in that wher of deuocioun,
full off ioy alle likyng.’