This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table
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This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
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[Imprynted at London :: In the Fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwellynge in saynt Dunstones parysshe, next ye churche,
In the yere of our lorde god. MCCCCC.XXXI. [1531] The fyrste daye of the moneth of Nouembre]
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Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint.
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"This boke is compyled by Dan Iohn Lydgate monke of Burye, at the excitacion [and] styrynge of the noble and victorious prynce, Kynge Henry the fyfthe, i[n] the honoure glorie [and] reuerence of the byrthe of our moste blessed Lady, mayde, wyfe, [and] mother of our lorde Iesu Christe, chapitred as foloweth by this table." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06560.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.
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¶ Howe Criste was borne after the makīge of the worlde / fyue thousande and hon∣dred / foure score and. xix. yere. Capitulo. xxxv. (Book 35)
WHan all was hushte / & all was scilenceAnd in his course / the longe sterry nightwas halfe paste / & fresshe of apparenceLucina shone in heuen fayre and brightThy worde o lorde / that is moste of mightWhiche ay abideth / and parteth not fro the
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Sente & dissendeth / from the Ryall see.
¶ Hath sodeynly / vp on all ertheShad his light / for our saluacionAs I shall synge / or mayes day the fertheIf ye liste here / of humble affeccionHowe in the yere of computacionFourty and two / of OctauianFerthermore / after the worlde began.
¶ Fyue thousande / as Beda liste defyneAnd an hondred sothely / this is no leaceAnd therewithall / nynty yere and nyneWhan all the worlde in rest was & in peaceWithouten warre / and of OlimpiadesIn the hondred nynty yere and threAnd by Cronycle / eke as ye may se.
¶ Than Augustus by cōmaundementGenerally / withouten exceptionBad by his lettres that the presidentOf eche prouince / Cyte / Borough / or TowneThorowe out the worlde / make discripcionOf euery hede / so that eche manAt a certeyn day / in all the haste he can.
¶ Upon a payne / be founde in the CyteWhere he was borne / without more delayeBothe hygh and lowe / of what estate he beAfter his statute / his tribute for to payeAnd that no man / be hardy to say nay
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To quyte hym selfe / of euery circonstaunceTo make in open a reconisaunce.
¶ With hande assured / and hole professionOf the prouidence / to fore the presidentThat he is subiect / vnto Rome towneWith all his herte / and his hole ententeAnd here vpon / that he payed his renteAs the custome / and the statute bandeThat is to say / that he brenge in his hande.
¶ A large peny / enprinted with the nameAnd the ymage of the EmperourAnd there vpon / he shulde anone attameAnother of newe / and for the more honourWith hande touched / swere for swete or soureWhyle he liueth / and neuer for to reweWith herte and body / playnly to be trewe.
¶ To tempre / his biddinge to obeyeWithouten grutchinge / or rebellionWith all his might / for to lyue and dyeAnd than anone / the discripcionOf euery hede / in his owne towneWas made in haste / where that he was boreAnd after that I fynde furthermore.
¶ His name was regestred / with hem therePerpetuelly / to be in myndeAnd this discriuinge / if ye liste to hereWas made fyrste in Sirie / as I fynde
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By one Cirinus / the people for to byndeTo be to Rome. in subiectionFor this Cirinus in that regyon.
¶ Was perferred there vnder the EmperoureIn bokes olde / as made is mencionAnd whyles he was theyr gouernourWas fyrste than begonne the discripcionThe yere in soth / after the foundacionOf mighty Rome / seuen hondred & fyfteneAt whiche tyme / with his beme shene.
¶ Was fresshe Phebus / in his fyrste faceOf Capricorne / the lowest stacionThe same yere / called the yere of graceThe yere of conforte and remissionBeynge the thyrtheneth the inditionThe golden nombre of the same yereEyghtene acounted in our calendere.
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