A Stanzaic Life of Christ Compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda Aurea |
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Circa secundum sciendum, est quod conueniens fuit, vt non
statim, quando mortuus fuit, Christus resurgeret set
vsque in diem tercium expectaret, propter quinque raciones & prima hec est.
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 | A Stanzaic Life of Christ |  |
Circa secundum sciendum, est quod conueniens fuit, vt non statim, quando mortuus fuit, Christus resurgeret set vsque in diem tercium expectaret, propter quinque raciones & prima hec est.
As to the secund in fay,
why he ros not hastily,
but abode the thridde day,
ffyue skylles I fynd skylfully.
why he ros not hastily,
but abode the thridde day,
ffyue skylles I fynd skylfully.
The furst skil was in tokenyng
That light of his dethe helet tho
our double deth, by that doyng,
of body and soule both two.
That light of his dethe helet tho
our double deth, by that doyng,
of body and soule both two.
And ther-fore one day ful enter
and two nightes ded he lay,
that by that day in gode maner
skilfully vnderstonde I may
and two nightes ded he lay,
that by that day in gode maner
skilfully vnderstonde I may
The light that by hys deth con schowe
to fadres that in helle wer,
that double deth welle conen knowe,
for bothe dethes thay suffert her.
to fadres that in helle wer,
that double deth welle conen knowe,
for bothe dethes thay suffert her.
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Then wer thay by hys dethe of light
ffrom bothe dethes of thesternesse
helet and restoret by right
to that lyue that ys endelesse.
ffrom bothe dethes of thesternesse
helet and restoret by right
to that lyue that ys endelesse.
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