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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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STANZAIC LIFE OF CHRIST
 
[Prologue.]
 
Petrus in Historiis Scolasticis de incarnacione Christi.
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[Nativity.]
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De circumcisione domini nostri Ihesu Christi.
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De epiphania. Epiphania dicitur ab epi, quod est supra, & phanos, apparicio, quia tunc desursum stella apparuit siue ipse Christus per stellam.
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De purificacione beate Ma{ri}e
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De occisione Innocencium & de Herode Ascalonica & eius vxore.
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Petrus in Histore capitulo xlvo.
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De septuagesima & eius institucione.
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De sexagesima & eius institucione.
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De quinquagesima & eius institucione.
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De quadragesima & eius institucione.
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De ieiunio quatuor temporum.
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De imperatoribus. Martinus. Anno gracie xvjo, Tiberius erectus est in imperatorem post mortem Octouiani.
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De passione Christi. Anno gracie xxxo, Tiberii xviijo.
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De resurrectione Christi.
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De letania Maiori & Minori.
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De ascensione domini.
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In die pentecostes.
 
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Bernardus: Dedit nobis animam in precium, sanguinem suum in potum, carnem in cibum, &c.
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Secundo quot modis missus est.
 
Iohannis tercio: Spiritus, vbi vult, spirat & vocem eius Audis, set nescis, a quo venit aut quo vadat, &c.
 
Secundo in specie nube.
 
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Canticorum iiijto: Surge, Aquilo, veni, Auster, & perfla, &c. Item spiritus sanctus lenis est Ad flatus demulcendum, &c.
 
Item A spiritu sancto venit remissio.
 
Ad Romanos viijo: Ipse spiritus testimonium reddidit spiritui nostro, vt sumus filii dei. Sin autem filii, & heredes, &c.
 
Domine, Domine non probavimus in nomine tuo, &c.
 
De quinto qualiter missus est.
 
Repleti sunt omnes spiritu sancto.
 
Yssay: Plenus sum & ideo holocausta, &c.
 
Secundo in [l]inguis [ig]neis.
 
Quare pocius in igne quam in alio elemento propter tres causas &c.
 
Secunda causa quare apparuit in specie ignis pocius quam in Alio elemento sumitur penes sue deitatis excellenciam, &c.
 
Ignis iiijor habet naturas, videlicet vrit, purgat, calefacit, illuminat, &c.
 
Sapiencie ixo: Sensum Autem tuum quis sciet, nisi tu crederis sapienciam & miseris spiritum sanctum tuum de altissimis.
 
[Quart]a causa quare pocius Apparuit in specie ignibus quam in alio elemento sumitur Amoris ipsius naturam &c.
 
Item habet vim concordatiuam
 
Iacobus: Lingua nostra est ignis vniuerse iniquitatis.
 
Ysaie lxxxijo: Spiritus domini super quod vincerit me.
 
Secunda prerogatiua data apostolis per spiritum sanctum videlicet Sapiencia.
 
Tercia prerogatiua videlicet humilitas.
 
Quarta prerogatiua videlicet humilitas & pulcra, &c.
 
Nota de sexta. Ad quos missus est, ad discipulos, quia fuerunt spectacula mundi.
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Primo Animo commoti &c.
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De septimo principali, propter quid missus est, quod propter sex causas missus est: primo ad consolandam mestos, Secundo ad viuificandum mortuos, Tercio ad mundandum & sanctificandum immundos, Quarto ad confirmandum Amorem inter discordes, Quinto ad saluandum iustos, Sexto Ad docendum ignaros.

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Item A spiritu sancto venit remissio.

Also by þo Holy Gost þis day
ffelle remyssioun of our syn,
And be gode skyll preue I may,
As I thenke now er þat I twyn.
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ffor in þo fyfty ȝer Alway
Sum tyme wos playne remissioun
of Cristen thynges, As I shall say,
þat I may after be resoun
Put þo spirituall ȝer of grase
to þo temperall dede befor,
ffor this remissioun vsed was
ffrom Habrahames tyme euermor.
Dettes, ȝif ony oghyng wer,
wer for-gefen weterly,
Men that wer exilled comen ner
And wer restored thurgh mercy;
Ȝif eny heretage wer lorne,
þat ȝer hit wos geuen oȝayne;
& suche as in bondayge wer borne,
wer made fre & þer-of fayne;
Also such As wer þo deth worthi,
wer delyuerd of presoun,
now put we yche grase in hy
to gostly playne remissioun.
ffyrst þurgh þo Holy Gost þis day,
ryȝt as dette forgeuen was,
so wer synnes, sothe to say,
hydde ouer-all þer he toke plaas.
Als in this fyfty day I-wis
synne[r]s wele repelled wer
to mercy, þof þai diden amys,
her-to Acordes þo Sauter:

Spiritus tuus bonus deducet me in terram rectam.

Also for heretage þat wos lost,
þat is erthely paradyse,
Crist his blode & flesshe for vs cost,
& for þat heretage put in prise
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Heuenly paradyse vs to wyn,
And þis day sende his gost doun
to conferme þat he con wyn,
ffor quyche he tholed his passioun.
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