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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Quartum miraculum, de quinque milibus hominum satisfactis in deserto.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Quartum miraculum, de quinque milibus hominum satisfactis in deserto.

This ilk selue day also
next ȝer after þen suyng,
God fed fyue thousand men & mo
In desert with littel thing,
With loues fyue & fisches two,
As I saide at bygynnyng,
Ihesu was olde of ȝeris tho
two & thretty bout lesyng.
Et ob hoc vocatur hoc festum phagephagya A phage, quod est bucca siue manducare.