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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¶ Of the ioye that Anna the doughter of Phanes had / whan Christe was offred in to the Temple ∵ Capitulo. lxxx.
THat was that daye ronne f••r in ageWithin the Temple by contynuaunceSole by her selfe out of mariageLaye night and daye / in fastynge & penaunceIn Wydowe abyte / sade of countenaunceAnd in prayer was her busy cur••Whiche in that houre of grace or auenture.
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¶ Whā Christs was there / with his mother dereIn the tyme of his oblacionThis Anna came / demure and sade of chereAnd vnto hym / with greate deuocionWhan she hym sawe / fyll on knees downeRecomforted of all her olde smerteHym honourynge with all her hoole herte.
¶ Sayde openly that all might hereBethe mery and lighte / in your entencionAnd euery man be glad / and of good chereFor nowe is borne for our saluacionHe that shall make our redemptionThis yonge chylde / blessed muste he beThat me hath graunted his face for to se.
¶ And than in soth / whā euery thynge was doneAfter the lawe withouten excepcionAnd than Anna and holy SimeonHad of this chylde made declaracionAs ye haue herde in conclusionThis chylde & Ioseph / and this mayde ••••eRetourned home agayne in to Galile.
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