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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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Petre scisse sunt &c. Ex quinque vt patet passio Christi fuit ex dolore amar[a], ex illusione despecta, & vtilitate multiplici fructuosa, et dolor causabatur.
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Secundo in eo, quod passio eius fuit iniusta.
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Quarto ratione teneritudinis corporis.
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ijo in auditu, cum ei obprobria & blasfemie irrogate sunt.
 
Item Mattheus xxviio: Alios saluos fecit, seipsum non potest &c.
 
Quinto in tactu.
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Secundo fuit eius passio illusione despecta, vt patet infra.
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Tercio fuit eius passio multiplici vtilitate fructuosa.
 
Secundo passio Christi fuit congruentissima ad curandum morbum.
 
Tertius modus nostre redempcionis fuit efficacissimus ad attrahendum genus humanum.
 
Quarto fuit prudentissimus ad expugnandum generis humani inimicum.
 
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De natiuetate Pilati.
 
De origine Iude traditoris Dei.
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De resurrectione Christi.
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De letania Maiori & Minori.
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De ascensione domini.
 
In die pentecostes.

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Secunda causa quare apparuit in specie ignis pocius quam in Alio elemento sumitur penes sue deitatis excellenciam, &c.

The secunde cause quy he don went
In fir lykenes to mon-kynde
helder þen in oþer element,
I shall declare now as I fynde.
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ffor fir is mor excellent
in thre maners, take þis in mynde,
þen ony other elyment,
And mor curiouse in his kynde,
In schappe, in ordre & vertue eke.
& in schappe I shall say quy,
ffor fayren þen fir no mon may seke
þer leghtnes none so louelely;
Be ordre also preue I may
hit passes other mony moo,
ffor herr þen oþer fir is Ay
In settyng & doyng eke also;
& vertu hit has als weterly
mor þen þes other thre,
& strengthe þer he comes by
to maystre hom all, leue ȝe me.
So fares hit of þo Holy Gost
of fayrenes he passes all,
& in rewle & ordre als is moost
ffor of All gostes he is wall,
And of vertue weterly
So excellent þer may none be,
As in Latyn preue will I
ffor clerkes be Autorite:

Sapiencie Septimo: Primo dicitur spiritus sanctus non quoinquinatus, pro secundo capit omnes spiritus intelligibiles, pro tercio habens omnem virtutem, &c.

Tercio sumitur penes multiplicem proprius efficaciam.

Tho thrid cause wele taken is
ffor kyndely profet þat fir has,
And faur kyndes he has I-wis,
Reherse I will now in this plaas.
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