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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 Mariam & Ioseph.

The thrid time, quen he was borne,
Ihesu callide he was i-wys
of Mary, as ho knewe biforn
of Gabriel nothing amys.
And that nome ȝyuen was as þis day
when þat he circumciset was,
riȝt as at fologht now in fay
childer ar nomet in ich plas.