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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Octaua vtilitas est ianue celestis [a]per[i]cio.
 
 

Octaua vtilitas est ianue celestis [a]per[i]cio.

the Aghtet profit is opunnyng
of heuen ȝates to vs alle
that to gode lif hauen liking
and comfort ay to Crist to [calle].
for right as Adam furst befor
opunnet helle-ȝates has
to his ofspringe that greuet sor,
so Crist the seconde tyme [h]as
opunnet vp for euermor
heuen-ȝates thurgh his grace,
whenne he stegh vp heuen thore
whit monnes kinde into þat place.

Vnde cantat ecclesia: Tu deuicto mortis, &c.