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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Quare dicitur Ihesus.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Quare dicitur Ihesus.

The thridde nome Ihesus it is
that hym was ȝyuen þis ilk day,
And bifore also i-wys,
As I shal ful sone say.
Ihesus is as mich to mene
As saueour of all mon-kynde,
declar it I wil more clene
In thre maners, as I fynde.
ffirst saueour he may callide be,
ffor he to saue hade ful power,
sythen godhede, monhede, leue ȝe me,
In his persoun wer both in fer.
ffor deede suyng also is he
saueour callide skylfully her,
As ȝe shun more clerly se
Ȝif ȝe wil listen & of me ler.