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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Sexto Ad docendum ignaros.

ffor Cryst sayd þat his comfortour
the Holy Gost þat sothefast is,
þe quyche his fader heuen flour
ffrom heghest see wold send I-wis,
Shulden tech hom all maner thyng,
The son saueour to hom before
shuld make wyse of connyng
& sad in sothenes seke & sore.

Paraclitus autem spiritus sanctus, quem mittet pater in nomine meo, ille vos docebit omnia. Iohannis xxijo.