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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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On a Sonday was don þis dede,

Nota.

And Monday suying bigan he
his fourty days fastyng,
In boke as sothly rede we,

And fiftene kalende of March mone
he endet his fasteng, in gode fay,
so to desert was lad ful sone
And temptide with Sathan, soth to say.