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A Stanzaic Life of Christ

Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea

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Dicitur secundo hoc festum ypopanty, quod idem est, quam presentacio vel obuiacio, ab ypon, quod est ire, & panty, quod est contra, quia Symeon & Anna obuiauerunt domino.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Dicitur secundo hoc festum ypopanty, quod idem est, quam presentacio vel obuiacio, ab ypon, quod est ire, & panty, quod est contra, quia Symeon & Anna obuiauerunt domino.

The secounde name this fest has,
as I speke at byghinnyng,
presentacio callet was,
or elles ayain-comyng.
Presentacioun skilfully
hit may [be] namet, sithen he,
to þe temple solempnely
was offret this day, leue ȝe me.
Agayn-comyng I may al-so
Calle þis fest be gode resoun,
for Simeon and Anne bothe two
Agaynes him maden processioun,

Tunc accepit eum Simeon in vlnas suas.

thenne, as the gospel mas mynd,
Symeon þat old mon
bytwhen hondes, as I finde,
toke Ihesu þat he leuet on.