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 April 30, 2024.
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¶ Howe the midwyfe durste nat entre with Ioseph in to the house for a greate light appered within. Capi. xxxix.
WOrshipped hym / wt all his herte & mightWith all his will / & all his full thoughtAnd telled Marie / for feare of the lightThe midwyues / that he had broughtAstoned were / that durste noughtEntre me / but kepte hem aferreFor cause onely / that a newe sterre.
¶ Ascended was / vpon that mancionThat spredde his light / & his beames shyneFrom este to weste / thorowe out the region
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That all they / that dyd it seneGan faste muse / what it might meneAnd in her hertes / greately for to chargeThat a sterre / so bright / so fayre and large.
¶ Of newe dyd appere / in that reemThat neuer none suche was sene toforeOf whiche sterre / prophetes in IherusalemThat tyme were astoned / wondere soreSayden playnly / withouten any moreThat this sterre / dyd signefyeThylke sterre / whiche in his prophecye.
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