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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.
 
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.
 
De emissione spiritus sancti. Paraclitus autem spiritus sanctus.
 
Secundo ad viuificandum mortuos.
 
Tercio ad mundandum & sanctificandum immundos.
 
Quinto, Ad saluandum iustos.
 
Sexto Ad docendum ignaros.
 
Nota de octauo ad vltinum per quid missus est

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Tercio ad mundandum & sanctificandum immundos.

That preues þis word þat I shall mynne,
ffor holy quen I specify
ffrom no holy nedely most twynne,
Elles þe Holy Gost gos by.
& ryȝt As holy cald is
þat wyckutnes to ryde & go,
So holy hit may be cald I-wis
þat makes mon clene of soro & wo.
Þerfor A verse of þe Sauter
ys gloset her, As I shall say,
& lyknes to þe water cler
þe Holy Gost, As men wele may;
Þat makes clene ay hym befor,
So dos þe Holy Gost oryȝt,
makes clene befor hym euermor,
non vnclennes þer he will lyȝt.

ffluminis impetus, id est, mundus & habundans gracia spiritus sancti letificat ciuitatem dei, id est ecclesiam dei & per istud flumen sanctificauit tabernaculum suum altissimus. Psalmus.

Quarto ad confirmandum Amorem inter discordes.

The furth cause whi Goddis gost
wos sent to erthe, as ȝe schyn se,
ffor he had myȝt & pouer most
to conferme luf & charite
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Betwene hom þat weren at debate,
& þat schewes þat þis wort her,
in Als mech as Algate
he callis God fader of All pouer.
ffor fader most kyndely
luffs his childer, for so did he,
As Iohn in his euangely
beris wytnes, ȝe schyn se.

Nota Iohannis xiijo: Ipse enim amat [n]os.

Then if þat he our fader be,
we ben his sons sykurly
& brethir All in vnite
to-geder made þrugh his mercy.
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