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The Fifth Age of the World. The Family of the Virgin Mary.
Blissed be scho þat vs has spedd,
þat we þe eldes four has redd;
To rekin forth þat leuedi kine,
þe fijfte elde wil we bigine.
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Ieconias ȝe heard me mone,
Salatiel he had to sone,
And of þis ilk salatiel
Becam his sone Zorobabel.
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Abiud ȝeit cam of him,
Of abiud Elyachim,
Of quam Asor, sadoch of him,
þat loth er for to lig in rim.
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Sadoch gat achim, for soth,
And of achim cam eliuth,
Of eliuth cam Eleazar,
þat leui als to name he bar.
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þis Leui had sonis tua,
þat was matan and pantra,
Mathan gat Iacob; iacob, ioseph;
þat was þe nethermast steph,
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Of þat side es to telle na ma.
Of pantera cam propantera,
Of propantera cam Ioachim,
vr leuedi mari cam of him.
Ioseph and scho, so may men se,
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Bot at þe thrid and ferde kne.
[folio 64a:2] þe mayden þat vs þat lauerd bare,
þat lesid all þis world of car,
þus was þe fruit þat broght vr bote
Of þe tre þat adam was þe rote.
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Qua sua wil se fra adam þe alde,
Hou mani knes to crist es tald,
