Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...

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Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ...
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[Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
1491]
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1600.
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"Hier begynneth the booke callyd the Myrrour of the worlde ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14444.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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¶Here after foloweth of the heuen crystalyn and of the heuene imperyall / Capitulo. xxij

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ABoue this heuen that we may see blew as sayd is / after that thaūcient clerkes saye / ther is another heue¦ne all roūde aboute that aboue & bynethe / lyke as it were of the colour of whyte cristall. clere. pure. & moche noble. & is called the heuen crystalyn. & aboue this heuen cristalyn. alle roūde aboute that / is an other heuen of the colour of purple. lyke as the deuynes saye & that is called the heuen imperyal / This heuene is garnysshid & ful of alle beaultees / more than ony of ye other that we haue named / & there is thayer seuen tymes more fayr & more clere than is the sonne. Fro this heuen Imperyall fylle the euyl angeles by their pryde yt whiche were disgarnysshid of all glorye & of all goodes / And ther ben the blessyd Angeles of our lord /

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