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The South English Legendary

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I.

[[BANNA SANCTORUM.]]

De circumsicione Domini

Eppiphania Domini

De sancto Hillario

De sancto Wolstano

De sancto Fabiano

De sancto Sebastiano

De sancta Agneta

[De Sancto Vincencio]

De sancto Iuliano confessore

De sancta Brigida

De sancto Blasio

De sancta Agatha

De sancta Scolastica

De sancto Valentino

De sancta Iuliana virgine

De sancto Matthi[e] apostolo

De sancto Oswaldo

De sancto Ceddo

De sancto Grigorio

De sancto Longio

De sancto Patricio

De sancto Edwardo Rege

De sancto Cuberto

De sancto Benedicto

De anunciacione dominica

De septuagesima

De quatragesima

De sancto Pascha

De sancta Maria Egiptiaka

De sancto Alphego

De sancto Gorgio

De sancto Marco

Letania maior de rogacionibus

De sancto Petro predicatore

De sancto Philippo

De sancto Iacobo

[De sancto lingno]

De sancto Quiriaco

De sancto Donstano

De santo Aldelmo

De sancto Agustino

De sancto Barnaba

[Sein Theofle was a gret man ]

De sancto Albano

De sancto Iohanne Baptista. [Decollatio]

De sancto Petro apostolo

De conuersione sancti Pauli

De sancto Switthino

De sancto Kenelmo

[Seinte Margarete was []

De sancta Maria Magdalene

De sancta Cristina

De sancto Iacobo

De sancto Cristoforo

De sancta Martha

II.

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Eppiphania Domini

Twelþeday þe heiȝe feste noble is to holde
For four þinges of þulke day as þe gospel us tolde

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Þulke day þe þre[o] kinges oure Louerd presant broȝte
Sone so he was ybore and wel wide hym soȝte
Þere after nyne & twenty ȝer as byuel þulke day
Oure Louerd ybaptized was to bygynne þe niwe lay
Twelmonþe ek afterward as þulke day also
Oure Louerd made of water wyn þo þat oþer was ydo
Þulke day þo a twelfmonþe þoru oure Louerdes grace
Vyf þousond men mid vif loues vedde in a place
Þis foure miracles of oure Louerd þulke day were ido
Wel auȝte we halwy þe day and honoure also