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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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Repleti sunt omnes spiritu sancto.

Thre maner fulnes, wele I fynde,
& tokenes of plente also
wos in þo Apostelles mynde
quen Goddes gost wos in hom þoo.
Þe fyrst songe made no sowene
After þo fyrst sowene doun comyng,
As schawes boþe in tour & tone
A full tvnne will sowen no thyng.

Iob septimo: Numquid mugiet bos, cum Autem presepe plenum fuerit, &c.

ffor an ox, as Iob says her,
will not lowe quen cracche is fulle,
no mor dos mon in no maner
quen he has al thyng þat he will
& crache of his hert full of hay,—
queche hay I call þo Holy Gost
þat makes althyng to his pay,—
hit nedes not to crie ne boost
Ne noȝt to sowene, as I say,
ffor þurgh þat lorde of myȝtes moost
impaciens is put oway,
He dredes for no kynges hoost.
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Þis token haden truly
Þo Apostels euerychon,
ffor in Angre & grete ny
Cry ne boost made neuer one,
Bot wentyn glad & murely
to mon makyng hor moone,
þo Holy Gost so graciousely
in all godenes has hom begone.

Ibant gaudentes in conspectu consilii, quoniam digni habeti sunt, &c.

Þo secunde signe of fulnes was
þat in þo dysciples con aper,
of þo Holy Gostes gras
No fuller myȝt þai be þen þai wer.
Goode ensample þer-by take mon may
be A vessell þat full is
of one lycour, in gode fay,
An-oþer will not in Iwis;
Also þo Apostels all
þat full wer of þo Holy Gost,
of wordly fulte myȝt þai noȝt fall
ne blyndet be wit deuels boost,
& for þai haden so full sadde tast
of heuen swyetnes hom with-in,
worldly wele wos waxen wast,
þo deuell no wille had hom to wyn.
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