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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Quarta prerogatiua videlicet humilitas & pulcra, &c.

So weren þai Also sad & meke
þrugh vertue of þe Holy Gost.
þe furthe vertu þai haden eke
ffair speche þrogh hym þat is most.

Iob xxvo: Spiritus domini ornauit celos rectos.

Thes faur wyn wele beseme
in All domes-men for to be,
Autorite full for to deme,
wysdam & mekenes, leue ȝe me,

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And esy speche Also to haue,
Noo hastynes ne cruelte,
not to knaw queche he will saue.
To þe sext poynt now go we.