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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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De imposicione nominis per angelum.

Also at his doun-comyng
from heuen to erth forto be mon,
he callide was saueour & kyng,
And how I wil telle, as I con.
Gabriel Mary gretyng
bad hir do þat ho leuet on,
And call hym Ihesus at hir beryng,
then secunde time his nome bigon.