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 where and whan Simeon made Nunc dimittis 〈◊〉〈◊〉••uum d•••• secundum verbum tuum in pace. Capitulo. lxxix.
O Blisfull lorde of thy hygh graceIt that thou liste nowe / thou mayste me leteOut of this lyfe in rest and peace to paceAnd suffre me to dye in quyeteFor nowe to me deth is wonder sweteNowe haue I sene thy helthe and thy socoureAnd of mankynde lorde and sauyoure.
¶ Whiche thou haste dyght afore the faces allOf eche people to make hem glad and lightTo lete thy grace / so to erthe fallThorowe all y• worlde / to shewe his bemes brightThat maye be called for comforte of his lightUnto all the gentyles the reuelacionThe glorie also / and the saluacion.
¶ Of Israel the people in speciallTo voyde hem out of all derkenesAnd Marie full mekely listeneth allAnd gan merueyle with greate aduisednesOf the wordes that he gan expresAnd Ioseph / eke gan to wonder also
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And Simeon hem blessynge bothe two▪
¶ Spake to Maxie / and sayde in audienceBeholde and se in thyne inspeccionHowe he is put in ruyne and offenceOf many one here in his regionAnd to so me in resurrexionThat shall releue thorowe his mighty graceAnd thorowe thy soule / shal a sharpe swerde pace.
¶ Of hertely wo / to se his passionThat passyngly shall be bitter and fellTo opene hertes by confessionHer soroufull thoughtes / openly to tellAnd Anna than doughter of PhanuellBorne of the Trybe of the kynredeCalled Asser / sothely as I rede.
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