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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Hoc nomen impositum est ei ab eterno.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hoc nomen impositum est ei ab eterno.

In-als-mich as he callide is
saueour for miȝt þat he has,
hit semus þis nome was gyuen i-wys
to hym er world bygynnyng was.

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ffor as sayn Ion berys witnes,
bigynnyng his euangely,
As I in Latyn her expresse
Apertly thenke to specifye: