WHAN
the
chyldern
of
Israel
were
goon
oute
of
Egypte
&
had
wonne
Iherusalem
&
all
the
londe
lienge
there
abowte
.
and
no
man
was
hardy
in
al
that
counfree
to
sette
agaynst
theym
for
drede
that
they
hadde
of
theim
/
That
tyme
in
Inde
was
an
hylle
that
was
callyd
Vaws
.
and
also
they
callyd
it
that
hyll
of
Vyctory
/
And
on
this
hyll
the
warde
and
the
kepyng
of
theym
of
Inde
was
ordeyned
&
kepte
by
dyuers
aspyes
by
nyghte
and
daye
for
the
chyldern
of
Israel
and
afterwarde
for
the
Romayns
/
Soo
that
yf
ony
peple
purposed
wyth
stronge
honde
to
entree
in
to
the
londe
of
the
kyngdom
of
Inde
.
anone
aspyes
of
other
hylles
abowte
by
tokens
shewed
and
warned
the
kepers
of
the
hyll
of
Vaws
/
As
by
nyghte
they
made
grete
fyre
.
and
by
day
grete
smoke
/
For
that
hyll
of
Vaws
passyd
of
heyghte
all
other
hilles
of
Inde
and
in
al
the
Eest
/
And
soo
whan
ony
suche
tokens
were
seen
by
nyghte
or
daye
.
thenne
anone
all
manere
of
men
of
that
countree
made
theim
redy
for
to
withstonde
yf
ony
enmyes
came
/
¶
Wherfore
in
the
tyme
of
Balaam
that
gloryously
prophecyed
of
the
Incarnacyon
of
our
lorde
and
of
the
sterre
and
sayde
)
Orietur
stella
&
c̈
(
Thenne
al
the
grete
lordes
and
all
the
people
of
Inde
and
in
the
Eest
desyred
gretly
to
se
that
sterre
/
And
they
promysed
for
to
geue
grete
gyftes
to
the
kepers
of
the
hyll
of
Vaws
/
And
hyred
theym
wyth
grete
rewardes
and
gyftes
that
at
suche
tyme
as
they
sholde
se
by
nighte
or
by
daye
ferre
or
nere
ony
lyghte
or
sterre
in
the
firmamente
other
wyse
fourmed
than
hathe
be
accustumed
to
be
seen
.
that
Incontynent
they
sholde
shewe
lyght
and
sende
theym
worde
/
And
soo
longe
tyme
that
comen
fame
and
pronystifyeng
of
the
sterre
was
gretely
desyred
and
bore
thorugh
alle
the
londes
of
the
Eest
and
also
the
name
of
the
hyll
of
Vaws
/
¶
Moreouer
of
the
same
hylle
rose
vp
a
grete
kynredde
in
Inde
and
in
the
Eest
.
that
is
callyd
the
progenye
of
Vaws
vnto
this
daye
/
And
there
is
not
a
more
worshypful
kynredde
ne
more
noble
and
myghty
in
all
the
londes
and
all
the
kyngdoms
in
the
Eest
.
as
it
shall
be
shewed
more
plainly
afterwarde
/
And
the
kynredde
came
fyrste
of
the
kynredde
of
the
worshypfull
kynges
blode
that
was
callyd
Melchior
that
offryd
golde
to
Tryste
Ihesu
/
IN
the
yere
of
our
lorde
a
thousande
two
hundred
whan
the
cyte
of
Akon
that
is
called
Acrys
stode
in
Ioye
and
prosperite
and
was
enhaunsed
rychely
wyth
prynces
and
lordes
and
also
wyth
dyuers
orders
of
men
of
religyon
of
all
manere
of
dyuers
nacyons
&
tonges
,
in
somoche
that
the
name
&
the
praysynge
of
the
cyte
of
Akon
or
Akers
was
borne
thorugh
the
worlde
?
And
moreouer
alle
nacyons
and
tonges
came
thither
bothe
by
londe
and
sée
of
al
manere
of
marchandise
of
the
worlde
/
Soo
there
was
noo
cytee
lyke
thereto
of
nobles
ne
of
worthynes
and
of
myghte
/
Thenne
for
the
grete
name
and
many
folde
praysynges
and
merueyles
that
were
there
.
the
grettest
of
byrthe
of
the
progenye
&
kynredde
of
Vaws
came
out
of
Inde
in
to
Akon
/
And
whan
they
sawe
alle
thynges
there
habunde
in
more
worshyppe
than
in
Inde
and
in
alle
the
countrees
of
the
Eest
/
Thenne
by
cause
of
so
many
playsures
they
taryed
there
and
buylded
a
fayr
toure
&
a
stronge
castell
in
Akon
for
ony
lorde
or
kynge
/
And
they
brought
wyth
theym
out
of
Inde
&
of
the
Eest
many
ryche
ornamentes
&
Iewelles
/
And
amonge
alle
other
Iewelles
they
broughte
a
costlewe
Dyademe
of
golde
arayed
wyth
perles
&
precyous
stones
/
And
in
the
hyhest
place
of
the
Dyademe
stode
letters
of
golde
and
a
sterre
lyke
the
sterre
that
apperyd
to
the
thre
kynges
whan
they
sawe
Cryst
with
a
sygne
of
a
Crosse
beside
hym
/
And
that
Dyademe
was
Melchiors
kinge
of
Nubie
&
of
Arabie
that
offred
golde
to
Cryste
/
For
thorugh
that
Dyademe
and
the
merytes
of
the
thre
blessyd
kynges
god
almyghty
heelyd
&
sauyd
both
man
&
beest
of
dyuers
syknesses
/
&
what
man
was
take
with
the
fallyngeuyll
.
whan
the
dyademe
was
layed
on
him
anone
he
was
hole
/
therfore
after
the
mayster
&
th
order
of
the
Templers
gate
that
diademe
with
many
precious
Iewelles
.
of
whyche
crowne
they
had
grete
offrynges
/
But
after
that
the
ordre
of
the
Templers
were
dystroyed
where
that
Dyademe
and
many
other
ryght
precyous
ornamentes
became
.
it
was
neuer
knowen
vnto
this
daye
/
Wherfore
grete
sorowe
and
lamentacyon
was
thenne
made
in
all
that
countree
abowte
/
¶
Moreouer
the
forsayde
prynces
of
Vaws
broughte
also
wyth
theym
out
of
Inde
bokes
whyche
were
wreten
in
Ebrewe
and
Caldee
langage
berynge
wytnesse
of
the
lyfe
&
of
the
dedes
of
those
thre
renommed
kynges
/
The
why
the
bokes
were
after
translated
in
to
Frensshe
/
And
soo
of
those
bokes
and
of
herynge
and
of
syght
and
of
sermon̄s
and
of
Omelies
that
ben
drawen
out
of
dyuerse
bokes
.
this
presente
treatyse
is
thus
wryten
togyder
and
comprysed
in
one
libell
or
lytyll
boke
/
¶
Also
the
olde
kynred
of
this
Progenie
of
Vaws
beren
alwaye
in
theyr
baners
vnto
this
daye
a
sterre
wyth
a
sygne
of
a
Crosse
on
the
same
manere
and
in
lyke
fourme
as
it
appered
to
the
thre
kynges
in
time
of
the
byrthe
of
oure
Sauyoure
Cryste
Ihesu
/
¶
And
soo
alwaye
after
that
the
prophete
Balaam
had
prophecied
of
that
sterre
.
the
more
the
fame
and
desyrynge
of
the
sterre
encreased
.
and
the
more
gretly
it
was
had
in
remembraunce
thorugh
out
all
the
londe
of
Inde
and
of
Caldee
.
and
also
the
more
the
people
desyred
to
se
it
in
theyr
lyue
dayes
/
WHan
Ezecheas
regned
and
was
kynge
and
souereyne
of
the
londe
of
Iewes
/
Thenne
Ysaye
the
prophete
prophecyed
gloryously
of
our
lady
saynt
Mary
and
of
her
sone
.
and
sayd
)
Ecce
virgo
concipiet
&
pariet
filium
&
c̈
(
Loo
sayd
the
prophece
a
mayde
shall
conceyue
and
bere
a
chylde
/
¶
In
the
tyme
of
Ysaye
kynge
Ezecheas
was
greued
with
an
Infirmite
vnto
the
dethe
/
And
Ysaye
the
prophete
in
the
name
of
god
tolde
hym
that
he
sholde
deye
wherfore
Ezecheas
torned
to
the
walle
and
wept
&
sorowed
.
as
holy
wrytte
telleth
/
And
not
for
drede
of
dethe
oonly
.
but
for
he
had
noo
eyre
.
and
for
the
byheste
of
Abraham
and
of
Dauid
and
also
the
prophecye
of
Balaam
and
of
Ysaye
sholde
faylle
and
perysshe
in
hym
/
Wherfore
our
lorde
had
mercy
on
hym
.
And
encreaced
and
prolonged
his
lyfe
:
xv-yeres
lenger
/
And
Ezecheas
askyd
a
token
of
god
thereof
/
The
whyche
token
was
this
/
That
the
sonne
sholde
goo
bakwarde
or
wythdrawe
hym
ayenst
his
kinde
/
And
soo
god
suffred
it
to
be
/
¶
And
whan
the
Caldees
sawe
this
merueyllous
and
wonderfull
token
in
the
sonne
&
in
the
ayre
.
they
merueyled
ryght
gretly
therof
/
And
whan
they
vnderstode
that
this
token
was
shewed
for
Ezecheas
the
kynge
.
thenne
they
sente
hym
many
gyftes
.
and
were
in
purpose
&
wyll
to
come
and
worshyppe
hym
/
For
the
kynge
Ezecheas
of
very
Innocencie
of
herte
made
dissimulacyon
&
wolde
knowlege
that
this
token
was
shewed
for
hym
/
And
also
he
wolde
not
thanke
god
therof
but
had
a
lytyll
pryde
in
his
herte
/
Wherfore
god
was
somdele
wrothe
wyth
hym
/
And
therfore
god
sent
to
Ezecheas
by
his
prophete
Ysaye
.
that
al
those
gyftis
whyche
were
sente
to
hym
by
the
Caldees
sholde
be
borne
in
to
Babilonie
.
as
is
wryten
in
the
Byble
/
For
though
Ezecheas
were
kynge
of
the
Iewes
borne
.
and
that
wonderfull
token
was
shewed
for
hym
.
yet
he
was
not
that
man
that
sholde
aryse
vp
of
Iherusalem
and
be
lorde
of
all
folke
as
Ballaam
prophecyed
/
¶
And
in
that
tyme
the
Caldees
and
the
Grekes
gaue
theim
moche
to
Astronomye
and
had
grete
delyte
therin
/
In
soo
moche
that
euery
mayde
and
chylde
in
mennes
howses
knewen
the
course
of
the
sterres
and
of
the
planetes
And
yet
alway
they
gyue
them
therto
.
&
specyally
kynges
&
prynces
/
For
they
haue
maysters
of
that
scyence
and
gyue
theym
grete
wages
to
teche
theim
/
AFter
Ezecheas
regned
Manasses
.
and
slewe
Ysaye
the
prophete
/
And
after
Manasses
regned
Amon.
and
after
him
Iosias
/
And
in
his
tyme
prophecyed
Iheremy
.
and
thenne
Ioachim
/
The
same
tyme
the
Caldees
byfeged
Iherusalem
and
dystroyed
if
.
and
bare
away
all
the
vessell
and
the
ornamentes
that
were
in
the
temple
of
god
and
in
the
kynges
house
.
and
bare
theym
in
to
Babilonie
.
as
Ysaye
hadde
prophecyed
before
/
And
they
ledde
many
Iewes
prysoners
in
to
Babilonie
the
whiche
is
fro
Iherusalem
.
l.
dayes
Iourney
/
And
they
were
in
captiuite
and
in
pryson
.
l.
yere
.
to
whom
Iheremye
sent
many
bokes
of
the
lawe
&
of
prophecyes
.
that
they
sholde
not
be
forgete
.
as
the
boke
tellyth
/
¶
And
in
this
captiuyte
of
Iewes
Danyel
prophecyed
vnder
Tyrus
kynge
of
Perse
of
the
Incarnacyon
of
Ihesu
Cryste
.
and
sayd
)
De
lapide
absciso
de
monte
sine
manibus
conscidenciū
(
As
ye
maye
here
after
/
¶
Amonge
all
other
Danyel
sayd
to
the
Iewes
)
Cum
venerit
sanctus
sctōrum
sessabit
vnctio
vestra
(
:
That
is
to
say
.
whan
he
that
is
moost
holy
of
sayntes
comyth
.
thenne
shall
your
vnccion
sesse
/
¶
After
this
the
kynge
of
Perse
&
the
Caldees
commaunded
and
dyde
wryte
and
translate
out
of
Ebrewe
in
to
Caldee
all
the
bokes
of
the
Iewes
lawes
and
the
prophecies
of
Ysaye
.
chore
Ieremye
Danyel
Mychie
.
&
Balaam
&
other
prophecies
/
Among
all
thise
bokes
&
prophecies
they
fonde
the
many
thinges
shold
be
fulfylled
by
the
Caldees
&
theym
of
Perse
.
&
specyally
by
the
Caldees
&
theym
of
Perse
.
&
specyally
after
the
prophecie
of
Balaam
.
that
sayd
)
Oriet̄
stella
ex
Iacob
(
And
for
thyse
prohecyes
and
bokes
of
the
Iewes
and
for
other
causes
the
Caldees
&
the
men
of
Perse
were
the
more
feruente
and
studyenge
after
the
sterre
/
¶
Wherby
we
shall
vnderstonde
that
alle
this
is
by
goddys
ordynaunce
&
of
his
habundannte
mercy
.
and
also
to
the
strenthynge
of
oure
faythe
/
¶
Balaam
that
was
the
fyrste
prophete
and
was
noo
Iewe
prophecyed
by
a
sterre
the
fyrste
callynge
&
clepynge
of
theym
that
were
noo
Iewes
.
whanne
he
sayd
)
Orietur
stella
ex
Iacob
&
exurget
homo
&
c̈
(
And
this
callynge
of
the
people
god
fyrste
began
&
perfourmyd
by
his
byrthe
&
by
thyse
gloryous
kynges
/
And
how
be
it
that
thei
of
Perse
and
of
Caldee
were
Paynemes
.
yet
by
thyse
prophecyes
and
bokes
of
the
Iewes
they
founde
and
wyst
well
that
what
soo
euer
god
had
promysed
by
his
prophetes
he
was
myghty
to
fulfyll
and
perfourme
it
/
¶
Soo
they
ordeyned
twelue
of
the
grettest
clerkes
of
Astronomye
that
were
in
all
the
countreee
.
and
gaaf
theym
grete
rewardes
to
kepe
the
hyll
of
Vaws
aforsayde
.
for
bicause
of
the
sterre
that
was
prophecied
by
Balaam
¶
And
the
cause
that
there
were
twelue
men
ordeyned
.
was
this
/
That
yf
soo
were
that
one
man
deyed
a nother
sholde
be
put
in
his
stede
/
And
nother
cause
was
that
some
of
theim
sholde
kepe
the
hyll
one
tyme
/
And
some
a nother
tyme
to
loke
after
the
sterre
that
Balaam
prophecyed
/
Neuertheles
the
people
loked
not
oonly
after
the
sterre
but
after
the
man
that
it
betokenyd
.
whyche
sholde
be
lorde
of
all
folke
/
¶
And
they
of
Inde
and
Caldee
came
often
tymes
to
Iherusalem
by
cause
of
marchaundyses
and
also
for
playsure
/
And
they
for
the
moost
parte
be
lerned
in
Astronomye
/
For
in
Inde
and
in
other
places
abowte
ben
many
sterres
in
the
fyrmament
whyche
maye
not
be
seen
and
perceyued
by
nyghte
playnly
/
¶
But
on
the
hyll
of
Vaws
in
a
bryght
weder
and
clere
ben
seen
&
perceyued
many
dyuerse
&
straunge
sterres
/
This
hyll
of
Vaws
passyth
of
heyghte
alle
the
hylles
of
the
eeste
/
And
aboue
it
is
nomore
of
brede
than
a
lytyll
chapell
that
is
made
therupon
/
The
whyche
the
thre
kynges
dyde
make
of
stone
&
tymbre
/
And
there
ben
aboute
this
hyll
many
steppes
for
to
goo
vp
to
the
chapell
/
And
there
growe
trees
and
good
herbes
and
dyuers
spyces
abowte
this
hyll
/
for
elles
men
myghte
not
goo
vp
to
the
hyll
it
is
so
hye
&
narowe
/
There
is
also
a
piller
of
stone
aboue
that
chapell
of
a
wonder
height
/
On
the
heed
of
this
pyller
stondyth
a
sterre
gylte
&
well
made
&
fayre
.
and
tornyth
wyth
the
wynde
as
a
fane
/
And
thrugh
the
lyghte
of
the
sonne
by
daye
&
of
the
mone
by
nyght
the
same
sterre
geuyth
lyghte
a
grete
waye
in
to
the
countree
abowte
/
And
many
other
merueylles
ben
tolde
of
this
hyll
of
Vaws
/
WHan
the
tyme
of
mercy
&
grace
was
come
that
god
wolde
haue
mercy
on
mankynde
/
whan
the
fader
of
heuen
sent
downe
his
sone
to
take
flesshe
&
blode
of
our
lady
saynt
Mary
&
to
be
borne
of
her
for
our
saluacyon
/
In
that
tyme
the
Emperour
of
Rome
Octauian
helde
the
empyre
of
all
the
worlde
/
In
the
yere
of
his
empyre
.xlij.
as
saynt
Luke
tellyth
he
sente
out
a
commaundment
to
discryue
all
the
worlde
(
Exiit
edictum
&
c̈
)
And
the
discriuynge
was
fyrste
vnder
Cirinus
that
was
bysshopp
of
Syrie
/
And
euery
man
went
home
to
his
owne
countree
/
Thenne
yede
Ioseph
out
of
Galilce
in
to
Nazareth
in
the
Iewrie
.
and
that
was
kynge
Dauids
londe
.
the
whyche
cytee
was
callyd
Bedleem
.
By
cause
Ioseph
was
of
the
house
&
of
the
meyne
of
kynge
Dauid
.
therfore
he
yede
in
to
his
countree
with
his
wyfe
our
lady
saynt
Mary
grete
wyth
childe
/
Soo
whan
they
were
there
.
the
tyme
was
come
that
oure
lady
sholde
be
delyuered
/
And
soo
she
was
delyuered
by
goddys
owne
myghte
&
mynystracyon
of
angelles
.
she
wrapped
him
in
clothes
&
layed
him
in
a
mainger
.
for
there
was
none
other
place
¶
And
ye
shall
vnderstond
that
Bedleem
was
neuer
of
grete
reputacyon
nor
place
of
grete
quantyte
.
but
it
hath
a
good
fundament
/
For
there
ben
many
caues
vnder
the
erthe
/
And
Bedleem
is
fro
Iherusalem
but
two
myles
/
It
is
but
a
castell
.
but
it
is
callyd
a
cytee
by
cause
kynge
Dauid
was
borne
there
/
And
in
that
towne
was
somtyme
an
hous
of
Ysaye
that
was
fader
to
kynge
Dauid
.
in
the
whyche
hous
kyng
Dauid
was
borne
&
enoynted
to
be
kynge
of
Israel
by
Samuell
the
prophete
/
And
in
the
same
place
Cryste
was
born
goddis
sone
of
heuen
/
And
that
place
was
somtyme
in
the
ende
of
a
strete
that
was
callyd
the
Coueryd
strete
/
And
this
was
the
cause
why
it
was
soo
called
.
for
the
grete
heete
&
brennynge
of
the
sonne
it
was
soo
coueryd
wyth
blacke
clothes
&
other
clothes
to
kepe
awaye
the
heete
of
the
sonne
.
and
soo
it
is
yet
to
this
daye
/
And
in
that
strete
was
wonte
to
be
a
markette
ones
in
the
weke
of
olde
clothes
and
other
thynges
.
and
specyally
of
tymbre
/
In
that
st●ete
stode
somtyme
an
hous
.
and
Ysaye
kyng
Dauids
fader
lefte
a
lytyll
hous
before
a
denne
vnder
the
eithe
.
and
it
was
shapen
lyke
a
lytyll
sellar
/
Ysaye
the
fader
of
Dauid
and
other
after
theym
putt
in
that
caue
certayn
necessaryes
that
longed
to
houshold
for
heete
of
the
sonne
/
It
is
also
the
mane●e
in
alle
the
countree
bothe
in
cytces
and
townes
to
be
certayne
houses
that
ben
called
there
Alchan
.
whiche
we
calle
here
Hostrees
.
and
in
those
houses
ben
mules
.
horses
asses
.
and
camelles
alwaye
redy
yf
soo
be
that
ony
pilgryme
.
marchaunt
or
other
man
that
traueyle
by
the
waye
yf
hym
nede
ony
beest
for
hym
or
for
his
marchandyse
.
thenne
he
gooth
to
suche
an
house
as
is
callyd
Alchan
and
there
he
maye
hyre
what
beest
that
he
woll
haue
/
And
thenne
he
gooth
forth
to
cyte
or
towne
where
he
woll
abyde
.
and
there
he
dyschargeth
him
of
his
horse
or
beest
and
sendyth
him
in
to
suche
an
hous
that
is
called
Alchan
/
And
there
ben
beestes
on
that
manere
to
hyre
/
And
the
mayster
of
the
hous
taketh
the
beest
and
yeueth
it
meete
.
and
whan
he
maye
he
sendyth
hym
home
agayne
there
he
came
fro
/
And
yf
soo
be
that
noo
man
goo
in
to
that
cyte
or
towne
in
longe
tyme
.
he
takyth
the
same
beest
and
ledyth
hym
out
of
the
towne
and
settyth
hym
in
the
way
homewarde
/
And
so
the
beest
gooth
forth
home
with
out
ony
ledinge
euyn
to
his
maysters
hous
without
peryll
of
beestes
or
of
theues
/
Soo
euery
man
that
hath
ony
suche
beestes
.
euery
man
knoweth
other
beestes
ben
they
neuer
soo
ferre
asondre
/
And
of
suche
houses
lordes
of
the
grounde
haue
grete
wynnynge
&
tolle
of
suche
beestes
hytynge
/
And
suche
a
manere
house
was
that
house
a
lytyll
before
or
Cryste
was
borne
in
/
¶
But
abowte
the
byrth
of
Ihu
that
hous
was
all
dystroyed
.
soo
that
there
was
no
thyng
lefte
but
broken
walles
on
euery
syde
and
a
lytyll
caue
vnder
the
erthe
.
and
a
lytyll
vnthryfty
hous
tofore
that
caue
/
&
there
men
solde
breede
in
the
same
grounde
¶
It
is
also
the
vsage
in
all
the
countree
that
all
the
breede
that
shal
be
solde
shall
be
brought
in
to
a
certayn
place
/
And
of
the
breede
that
is
solde
in
the
day
the
kynge
&
the
lorde
of
the
grounde
atte
nyght
shal
haue
a
certen
money
/
And
whan
Dauid
was
made
kynge
of
Israel
by
processe
of
tyme
Iherusalem
was
dystroyed
and
all
the
countree
abowte
Noo
man
toke
hede
of
this
hous
by
cause
it
was
all
dystroyed
&
noo
thynge
lefte
but
that
broken
house
&
the
caue
/
And
bredde
&
tymbre
that
myght
not
be
solde
on
the
daye
sholde
be
putte
in
that
hous
to
the
next
market
day
/
Asses
.
horse
.
&
other
beestes
that
came
to
the
market
were
tyed
abowte
this
broken
hous
/
FOr
to
speke
ayen
of
the
matere
/
Whan
Octauian
Emperoure
of
Rome
had
scnte
out
his
commaundment
that
eche
man
shold
goo
to
the
same
towne
that
he
was
borne
in
/
Thenne
went
Ioseph
.
and
our
lady
rode
vpon
an
asse
.
they
came
so
late
wythin
nyght
to
Bedleem
as
it
is
afore
sayd
.
therfore
all
the
Innes
&
hostries
were
stuffed
wyth
pylgrymes
&
other
men
.
And
by
cause
they
came
in
poore
araye
they
wente
abowte
the
cyte
&
noo
man
wolde
receyue
theym
/
&
specyally
for
they
sawe
that
our
lady
was
a
yonge
woman
syttynge
vpon
an
asse
heuy
sorowfull
&
full
wery
.
grete
wyth
childe
and
nyghe
the
tyme
of
her
delyueraunce
of
her
chylde
/
Thenne
Ioseph
ladde
her
in
to
this
forsayd
place
that
noo
man
toke
hede
of
downe
in
to
the
lytyll
derke
denne
/
And
there
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
that
same
nyght
was
borne
of
our
lady
wythout
ony
disese
of
her
body
/
In
that
house
of
olde
tyme
was
lefte
a
maynger
of
the
lengthe
nyghe
of
a
fadom
made
in
the
walle
/
And
by
the
same
maynger
was
an
oxe
of
a
poore
mannys
tyed
.
And
besyde
the
oxe
Ioseph
tyed
his
asse
/
And
in
the
same-mainger
our
lady
wrapped
her
blessed
sonne
in
suche
clothes
as
she
had
.
&
layed
him
vpon
the
heye
tofore
th
oxe
&
th
asse
For
there
was
none
other
place
in
that
countree
/
In
ostryes
all
the
mayngers
ben
of
thre
or
foure
fete
of
lengthe
.
that
an
horse
or
elles
a nother
beest
may
haue
his
meete
by
hymself
/
And
suche
a
maynger
was
that
that
our
lady
laye
in
/
THe
place
where
the
angell
apperyd
to
the
shepeherdes
thant
nyghte
that
Cryste
was
borne
is
but
half
a
myle
from
Bedleem
/
And
in
that
same
place
Dauid
kepte
shepe
in
his
chyldhede
&
deffended
them
from
beers
&
lyens
&
other
wylde
beestes
/
So
me
bokes
saye
that
the
shepeherdes
of
that
conntree
kepe
theyr
shepe
twyes
in
oon
yere
/
And
those
tymes
are
whan
the
dayes
&
nyghtes
ben
both
of
a
lengthe
And
that
londe
abowte
Bedleem
is
called
the
londe
of
byhest
/
And
that
place
in
the
Eest
is
mnost
parte
mountayns
.
for
in
some
place
a
man
shall
not
well
knowe
Wynter
fro
Somer
/
And
in
some
place
there
it
is
ryght
colde
.
&
in
some
place
is
bothe
Wynter
&
Somer
.
as
it
is
in
this
countree
after
that
the
places
ben
playne
or
full
of
hylles
/
For
abowte
some
of
the
hylles
a
man
maye
fynde
snowe
in
August
.
&
that
snowe
men
of
that
countree
gadre
thenne
&
laye
it
in
theyr
caues
vnder
the
grounde
/
And
afterward
it
is
borne
to
the
markettes
.
and
that
wyll
the
lordes
of
the
countree
bye
to
set
it
in
basons
on
their
borde
to
make
theyr
drynke
colde
/
And
the
poore
men
that
gadre
it
carye
it
in
chaffe
that
the
heete
sholde
not
melte
it
.
and
the
lordes
that
bye
it
vncoueren
it
out
of
that
chaff
.
thenne
anone
it
is
resolued
&
molte
to
water
For
comynly
in
that
countree
of
the
Eest
is
alwaye
snowe
in
Septembre
&
Octobre
/
Whan
the
sonne
comyth
a
lytyll
lowe
in
that
countree
all
sedes
&
herbes
begyn
to
sprynge
and
were
as
they
done
in
this
countree
in
Marche
&
Aprill
/
And
in
some
partyes
of
the
Eest
men
repe
corne
in
Marche
&
Aprill
.
but
moost
in
May
.
after
the
place
or
ground
lyeth
hye
or
lowe
/
But
by
Bedleem
ben
many
mo
good
fatte
pastures
&
hote
than
in
other
places
.
in
soo
moche
that
at
Crystmasse
barleye
begynnyth
to
were
rype
.
and
thenne
men
of
dyuerse
countrees
sende
thether
theyr
horses
&
mules
to
make
theym
fatte
/
And
the
tyme
that
we
calle
here
Crystmas
.
it
is
called
there
tyme
of
herbes
/
¶
And
for
asmoche
as
whan
Cryste
was
borne
peas
was
in
al
the
worlde
.
therfore
the
angell
sayd
Par
hominibus
bone
voluntatis
(
And
for
the
heete
of
that
countree
abowte
Bedleem
.
that
is
the
cause
that
shepeherdes
kept
theyr
beestes
there
that
tyme
of
the
yere
.
as
they
done
yet
vnto
this
daye
/
IN
those
dayes
whan
the
commaundment
went
out
from
Cezar
August
as
it
is
aforsayde
/
thenne
was
Herode
ordeyned
&
made
kynge
of
the
londe
of
Iewes
by
the
emperour
&
by
the
Romayns
:
&
yet
was
Herode
noo
Iewe
ne
kyng
of
Iewes
borne
/
But
by
cause
the
same
emperour
&
the
Romaynes
had
made
subgette
to
theym
the
londe
of
Iewery
&
many
of
the
prouynces
abowte
theym
vn to
Inde
Perse
&
Caldee
.
so
by
strong
honde
they
made
hym
kynge
/
And
all
that
countree
knewe
well
that
He
rode
was
but
a
lyon
&
neuer
came
of
kyngis
blood
.
ne
of
Iewry
bore
.
but
made
kyng
by
th
emperour
&
Romayns
.
so
that
the
prophecie
of
daniel
shold
be
fulfylled
in
the
tymen
of
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
.
whan
he
sayd
)
Cum
venerit
sanctus
sactōrum
&
c̈
(
as
it
is
aforsayde
/
Yet
the
Iewes
contynuynge
in
theyr
malyce
&
falsnesse
sayde
.
that
longe
tyme
after
the
Natiuite
of
Cryste
their
vnccion
sessed
not
.
but
that
they
had
many
kinges
after
/
But
yet
the
false
Iewes
forsake
not
that
Herode
came
of
a
Iewe
on
the
fader
syde
&
of
a
Paynym
of
the
moders
syde
.
&
so
he
was
noo
very
Iewe
Wherfore
crysten
men
make
the
Iewes
vtterly
confuled
of
the
prophecye
of
Iacob
theyr
Patryarke
.
the
sayd
thus
)
Non
auferetur
ceptrum
de
iuda
nec
dux
de
femore
cius
doner
veniat
qui
mittendus
est
et
ipse
erit
expectacō
gencium
)
that
is
to
saye
/
The
septie
of
Iuda
shall
not
be
borne
away
ne
the
stocke
of
lygnage
tyl
he
come
that
shall
be
sente
.
and
he
shall
be
that
folke
shall
abyde
/
¶
And
many
other
questyons
of
the
Iewes
to
the
crysten
men
of
the
vnccion
of
theyr
kynges
/
WHan
god
was
borne
of
our
lady
as
it
is
afor
sayd
thenne
this
sterre
that
was
prophecied
by
Balaam
.
and
long
tyme
abyden
and
loked
after
by
the
twelue
Astronomers
of
the
sayd
hyll
of
Vaws
/
¶
The
same
nyghte
and
the
same
houre
that
god
was
borne
.
the
same
sterre
began
to
ryse
in
manere
of
the
sonne
shynynge
bryghte
/
And
after
that
fourme
of
an
egle
ascended
aboue
the
hylle
/
And
all
the
daye
in
the
highest
place
of
the
ayre
it
abode
with
out
ony
meuynge
/
Soo
whan
the
sonne
was
moost
hote
and
moost
highe
there
was
no
dyfference
in
shinynge
betwyx
the
sterre
&
the
sonne
/
Neuertheles
some
bokes
sayen
.
that
in
the
same
daye
whan
god
was
borne
.
were
seen
many
sonnes
.
but
whan
the
daye
of
Crystmas
was
paste
.
the
sterre
ascended
vp
in
to
the
fyrmament
/
And
the
sterre
that
thus
was
shewed
was
noo
thynge
lyke
the
sterres
that
ben
paynted
here
in
dyuerse
places
/
For
it
had
ryght
many
strakes
and
beemys
more
bryght
brennynge
than
a
bronde
of
fyre
/
And
as
an
Egle
fleenge
&
betynge
the
ayre
with
his
wynges
.
ryght
soo
the
strakes
&
the
beemes
of
that
mouyd
themselfe
abowte
/
And
the
sterre
had
in
hymself
the
fourme
&
the
liknesse
of
a
yonge
childe
.
and
aboue
hym
the
sygne
of
a
Crosse
/
And
a
voyce
was
herde
in
the
sterre
sayenge
)
Natus
est
nobis
hodie
rex
iudeorum
qui
est
expectacō
gencium
&
dominator
eorum
ite
ad
inquirendum
eum
&
adorandum
)
that
is
to
saye
/
This
daye
is
borne
to
vs
kynge
of
the
Iewes
that
folke
haue
abyden
and
he
is
lorde
of
them
god
forth
and
seke
hym
and
doo
hym
worshypp
/
Therfore
for
strengthynge
of
our
fayth
&
to
afferme
thys
matere
forsayd
almyghty
god
whose
prouydence
in
his
ordynaunce
fayllyth
not
/
¶
And
saynt
Poul
sayth
)
Vocatea
que
non
sunt
tanquam
ea
que
sunt
)
that
is
to
saye
/
God
callyth
those
that
ben
not
aswell
as
those
that
ben
of
his
prouidence
/
Thus
he
dyde
and
dysposed
.
as
he
dyde
in
the
olde
Testamente
.
whan
he
gaaf
a
langage
to
an
asse
.
and
made
an
asse
to
speke
to
Balaam
/
He
wolde
in
the
begyn̄nynge
of
the
newe
Testament
yeue
a
voyce
to
speke
out
of
a
sterie
that
the
same
Balaam
prophecyed
of
/
¶
Whan
al
the
people
of
that
countree
abowtesawe
this
wonderfull
and
merueyllous
sterre
.
and
also
herde
the
voys
of
the
sterre
.
they
were
gretly
affrayed
.
and
hadde
grete
wonder
therof
/
But
they
knewe
well
that
it
was
the
same
sterre
that
was
prophecied
of
by
Balaam
.
and
longe
tyme
was
desyred
and
abyden
of
all
the
people
of
that
countree
theraboute
.
Thus
whan
thyse
thre
Kynges
that
the
tyme
regned
in
Ynde
.
Caldee
and
Persidie
weren
enfourmed
and
well
assured
by
the
Astronomers
and
by
the
prophecyes
of
this
sterre
/
They
were
ryght
gladde
that
they
had
grace
to
se
that
sterre
in
theyr
dayes
that
was
longe
tyme
prophecyed
afore
.
and
all
the
people
had
so
longe
loked
after
/
Wherefore
though
eche
of
thyse
thre
kynges
weren
ferre
from
other
.
and
none
of
theym
knewe
of
others
purpose
.
yet
in
one
houre
the
sterre
appered
to
theym
all
thre
/
And
thenne
they
ordeyned
and
purposed
theim
anone
wyth
grete
and
ryche
gyftes
and
many
dyuerse
ornamentes
that
were
belongynge
vnto
the
degree
&
araye
of
kynges
.
and
also
wyth
mules
&
camels
and
horses
charged
wyth
precyouse
tresours
&
wyth
grete
nombre
and
multytude
of
people
to
goo
seke
in
theyr
beste
arraye
and
to
worshippe
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
that
was
borne
to
be
Sauiour
of
all
the
worlde
and
the
kynge
of
Iewes
that
was
born
that
tyme
.
as
the
voyce
of
the
sterre
spake
and
preched
/
And
ferthermore
they
arayed
theym
moche
the
more
honestely
and
worthyly
/
For
they
knewe
well
and
vnderstode
that
he
was
a
more
worthyer
kynge
than
ony
of
all
the
worlde
/
¶
Ferthermore
eche
of
thyse
thre
blessyd
kynges
had
wyth
theym
grete
caryage
of
oxen
and
shepe
and
other
beestes
that
longe
to
mannys
lyuynge
and
sustenaunce
.
and
other
manere
thynges
necessary
belongynge
to
the
offyce
of
a
chamber
.
kechen
and
to
all
other
offyces
belongynge
to
a
kynges
astate
.
&
also
bothe
fode
for
man
&
beest
they
caryed
wyth
theim
/
In
somoche
that
they
ordeyned
soo
grete
plentee
that
sholde
suffyse
theim
well
bothe
outwarde
&
homwarde
/
And
euery
kyng
had
people
as
it
had
be
an
hoste
/
¶
It
is
the
manere
in
that
countree
of
the
Eesst
oute
take
cytees
.
that
in
other
townes
ben
many
fayr
Ostries
.
and
for
the
moost
party
al
maneze
vytaylles
both
for
man
&
beste
is
ynough
for
the
comyn
people
.
but
not
for
suche
kynges
&
suche
grete
lordes
that
ryde
wyth
soo
grete
multytude
.
Beddyng
&
suche
other
necessaries
of
chambers
.
neyther
of
chapell
.
ne
of
kechin
is
not
suffycyent
ne
honest
&
therfore
lordes
haue
suche
cariaage
wyth
theim
/
And
in
the
countree
for
the
most
party
men
ryde
or
go
by
nyght
for
brennynge
of
that
sonne
&
in
heete
of
the
day
they
rest
/
Ye
shal
vnderstonde
that
there
ben
thre
Indes
.
of
whom
thise
thre
lordes
were
kinges
/
And
alle
those
londes
for
the
moost
partye
ben
yles
/
There
ben
also
thre
grete
waters
and
thre
grete
desertes
or
wyldernesses
full
of
wylde
&
peryllouse
beestes
and
horryble
serpentes
/
And
in
that
countree
doon
growe
also
thise
longe
grete
redes
that
ben
brought
in
to
Englonde
.
and
some
ben
soo
grete
that
men
make
houses
and
shyppes
of
theym
/
And
eche
yle
is
deuided
and
departed
eche
from
other
/
And
eche
londe
is
full
of
wylde
beestes
/
IN
the
fyrst
Ynde
is
the
londe
of
Nubie
.
and
therof
Melchior
was
Kynge
whan
Cryste
was
born
/
And
there
is
also
the
lond
of
Arabie
/
And
in
that
londe
is
the
mount
Sinay
/
A
man
out
of
the
redde
see
maye
lightly
saylle
out
of
Egypte
and
Syrie
in
to
Ynde
/
¶
And
pylgrymes
&
marchauntes
that
from
Ynde
passen
the
redde
see
.
sayen
that
al
the
grounde
of
the
redde
see
is
soo
redde
that
the
water
aboue
semyth
as
it
were
redde
wyne
.
notwythstondyng
that
water
is
as
other
water
is
of
colour
.
and
it
is
merueyllously
salte
/
And
it
is
soo
clere
that
in
the
deppest
of
all
the
water
men
maye
se
fysshes
and
dyscerne
al
thynges
by
the
botom
of
the
see
And
that
water
is
thre
cornerde
.
and
it
ebbyth
and
floweth
in
to
the
grete
see
of
Occean
.
and
is
foure
or
fiue
myles
of
brede
where
it
is
brodest
/
And
there
the
chyldern
of
Israel
yede
thrugh
with
drye
fete
whan
Pharao
&
his
host
pursued
theim
.
and
al
were
drowned
man
&
beest
/
Out
of
that
see
sourdeth
a
grete
flode
that
rennyth
in
to
a
ryuer
of
paradyse
terrestre
.
&
that
ryuer
is
callyd
Nilus
/
And
this
Nilus
passyth
by
Egypte
,
and
by
it
cometh
moche
ryche
marchandyse
out
of
Ynde
and
soo
passeth
in
to
Egypte
.
Syrie
.
Babilonie
.
&
Alisaundre
.
and
soo
thorugh
al
the
worlde
/
And
all
the
erthe
of
the
londe
of
Arabie
there
the
mount
Synai
is
.
is
merueyllously
redde
/
Stones
&
trees
.
herbes
and
all
other
thynges
that
growe
there
ben
redde
for
the
moost
partye
/
And
there
is
founde
golde
wonderfully
redde
in
manere
of
thinne
&
smalle
rotes
.
and
that
is
the
beste
golde
of
the
worlde
¶
There
is
also
an
hyll
that
is
called
Bona.
and
in
that
hyll
is
founde
the
stone
that
is
callyd
Smaragdus
/
And
that
is
cutte
out
wyth
grete
crafte
and
grete
traueyle
of
the
hylle
.
And
that
hyll
is
besyly
&
strongly
wyth
the
Sowdans
meyne
/
IN
the
second
Ynde
was
the
lond
of
Godolie
and
therof
was
Balthasar
kyng
whan
Criste
was
borne
/
And
he
offred
ensence
to
Ihesu
/
And
there
was
also
of
olde
tyme
in
that
londe
that
kyngdom
of
Saba
/
And
in
that
londe
growith
more
plente
of
good
spyces
than
in
al
the
londes
of
the
Eest
after
/
And
in
especyall
ensence
more
than
in
al
the
worlde
/
And
it
droppyth
out
of
certayne
trees
in
manere
of
gumme
/
IN
the
thyrd
Ynde
was
the
kyngdom
of
Taars
.
and
in
the
tyme
of
Crystis
byrthe
Iasper
was
kynge
therof
/
And
he
offred
to
god
Myrre
/
And
that
londe
is
called
thyle
of
Egris
will
/
In
that
yle
groweth
more
myrre
than
in
all
the
worlde
after
/
And
it
wexyth
lyke
eeres
of
corne
that
were
brente
wyth
the
weder
and
it
growyth
ryght
thycke
And
whan
it
is
rype
it
is
so
softe
that
it
cleuyth
on
mennes
clothes
as
they
goon
by
the
waye
/
And
then
men
take
smalle
cordes
&
girdles
and
drawe
theim
all
abowte
the
eeres
.
and
soo
the
myrre
cleuyth
on
the
cordes
and
on
the
girdles
.
and
afterwarde
the
myrre
is
wronge
out
of
the
cordes
and
girdles
/
¶
Wherfore
we
maye
vnderstonde
that
this
was
doon
of
a
grete
prouydence
of
the
grete
mercy
of
god
:
that
thyse
thre
kynges
Melchior
Balthazar
and
Iasper
of
thyse
londes
in
whom
thyse
good
and
ryche
gyftes
wexed
and-growyd
that
sholde
be
offred
to
god
by
the
olde
prophecies
/
Rather
they
maye
be
callyd
kynges
than
kynges
of
other
grete
londes
.
wherof
sayth
Dauid
the
prophete
)
Beges
tharsis
&
insule
munera
offerent
reges
arabum
&
saba
dona
domino
deo
adducent
)
that
is
to
saye
/
Kynges
of
Taars
and
of
the
yle
shall
offre
gyftes
kynges
of
Arabie
&
of
Saba
shall
brynge
gyftes
to
our
lorde
god
/
¶
Somtyme
thyse
kynges
had
other
names
/
Melchior
was
called
kinge
of
Nubie
&
of
Arabie
/
Balthazar
was
called
kyng
of
Golie
&
Saba
.
&
Iasper
was
called
kynge
of
Taars
&
of
thyle
of
Egris
will
/
&
it
was
called
the
kyngdom
of
Taars
bicause
it
was
nexed
to
the
same
yle
/
And
so
the
names
of
their
kingdoms
ben
specifyed
in
specyall
for
dyfference
of
other
cytees
and
yles
of
the
countree
/
TO
shewe
ayen
of
thise
thre
worshypful
kinges
.
of
the
araye
and
ordenaunce
wyth
ryche
tresour
and
ornamentes
and
wyth
grete
multytude
of
people
as
it
is
aforsayd
/
And
whan
they
rode
forth
out
of
their
kyngdoms
none
of
them
wyst
ne
knewe
of
others
purpoos
by
cause
of
the
long
waye
that
was
bytwyx
eche
kyngdom
.
yet
the
sterre
went
euenly
tofore
thise
thre
kynges
&
al
theyr
mey
ne
/
And
whan
theistode
styll
or
rested
then
the
sterre
stode
styll
.
&
whan
they
yede
or
rode
the
sterre
alway
yede
forth
tofore
them
in
his
vertu
&
strength
&
yaue
lyght
to
al
the●r
wayes
/
And
the
tyme
was
peas
in
al
the
worlde
.
wherfore
in
al
cytees
&
townes
the
they
ye
de
by
was
no
gate
shyt
nyght
nor
day
.
but
it
semyd
to
those
thre
kynges
&
to
al
theyr
people
that
it
was
euer
daye
&
neuer
nyght
in
all
those
.xiij.
dayes
/
whefore
all
men
of
cytees
&
townes
that
thyse
thre
kynges
came
by
were
wonderly
aferde
&
merueyled
therof
For
they
sawe
kynges
with
somoche
people
&
bestes
&
caryage
that
passyd
by
theym
in
grete
hast
in
the
nyghte
/
But
they
knewe
not
what
they
were
ne
from
what
place
they
came
.
ne
whyther
they
sholde
goo
/
But
on
the
morowe
they
sawe
the
waygretely
defoylled
and
traced
wyth
hors
fete
&
other
beestes
/
Wherfore
they
were
in
grete
doubte
what
it
shold
be
and
grete
altercacion
was
amonge
theym
in
that
countree
longe
tyme
after
/
¶
Soo
ferthermore
whan
thyse
thre
kynges
had
rydden
thrugh
dyuers
londes
kyngdoms
.
citees
.
and
townes
.
they
rode
ouer
hylles
waters
.
valeyes
.
playnes
.
and
many
other
dyuers
peryllouse
places
wythoute
ony
dysese
or
lettynge
/
For
all
the
waye
that
they
rode
were
it
highe
or
lowe
all
semyd
to
theym
euyn
and
playne
and
fayre
waye
/
¶
They
toke
neuer
herberough
by
the
waye
nyghte
nor
daye
ne
neuer
rested
themself
but
to
make
water
neyther
their
beestes
that
were
in
theyr
company
.
ne
neyther
ete
nor
dranke
after
the
tyme
that
they
had
take
their
waye
tyll
they
came
in
to
Bedleem
/
And
all
thyse
.xiij
dayes
Iourneyes
semyd
theym
but
one
daye
/
And
thus
thorugh
the
grete
myghte
of
god
&
the
ledynge
of
the
sterre
they
came
in
to
Iherusalem
the
thyrtenth
daye
after
that
Cryste
was
borne
in
the
vprysynge
of
the
sonne
.
wherof
this
is
noo
doubte
/
For
they
founde
oure
lady
and
her
sone
in
the
same
place
and
in
the
caue
that
Criste
was
borne
in
/
&
he
was
layed
in
an
olde
maynger
¶
Also
many
bokes
telle
that
they
came
in
to
Iherusalem
and
to
Bedleem
in
the
in
the
myddes
of
the
daye
.
wherof
saynt
Gregory
sayth
thus
in
an
Omelie
)
Si
dimna
operacio
humana
racione
comprehendi
posset
non
esset
admirabilis
.
nec
haberet
fides
meritum
cui
humana
racon
prebet
experimentum
)
that
is
to
saye
/
Yf
the
werkes
of
god
mighte
be
comprehended
in
mannes
wytte
or
reason
it
were
noo
wonder
:
for
fayth
hath
no
mede
where
kynde
reason
shewyth
if
to
man
/
¶
For
oure
lorde
god
that
in
the
olde
Testament
ledde
Abakuc
the
prophete
by
one
heere
of
his
heed
out
of
Iurye
in
to
Babilonie
&
Caldee
.
that
was
a
hundred
dayes
Iourneye
bitwene
goynge
&
comynge
to
Danyel
the
prophete
that
was
in
a
pytte
among
wylde
lyens
.
and
anone
restored
the
same
Abakuc
in
to
his
owne
place
ayen
/
The
same
lorde
god
in
the
newe
Testament
was
myghty
to
lede
&
brynge
thise
thre
worshipfull
kynges
out
of
theyr
kyngdoms
in
the
eest
in
to
the
londe
of
Iewery
in
twelue
dayes
wythoute
ony
dysese
or
lettynge
/
¶
Also
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
after
his
resurrexcyon
yede
to
his
dyscyples
in
to
an
house
wythout
openynge
of
gate
or
locke
/
And
as
the
fyre
brente
not
ne
dyde
none
harme
to
the
thre
chyldren
whan
they
were
putte
in
the
furneys
of
fire
.
ne
noo
sauour
of
smoke
was
founde
in
theym
/
Ryght
soo
in
the
tyme
of
thyse
thre
gloryous
kynges
our
lady
saynt
Mary
bare
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
that
was
and
is
very
god
&
man
/
And
yet
she
was
tofore
and
euer
after
a
clene
mayde
/
God
almyghty
myght
harue
brought
thise
thre
kynges
&
al
their
folke
out
of
the
Eest
in
to
Iewerye
in
a
moment
as
he
broughte
Abakuc
the
prophete
forsayde
/
But
though
god
almyghty
made
hymself
lowe
and
was
borne
in
grete
pouerte
and
toke
vpon
him
manhode
&
mannes
freeltee
.
yet
he
wolde
merueyllously
shewe
his
byrth
to
all
the
worlde
.
in
heuen
&
in
erthe
wyth
the
myghte
of
his
godheed
&
of
his
hyghe
mageste
/
WHan
thyse
thre
kynges
eche
in
his
waye
with
his
hoste
&
companye
were
almost
come
to
Iherusalem
saue
two
myle
/
Thenne
a
derke
&
a
grete
clowde
couered
theym
&
alle
the
erthe
/
And
in
that
derke
clowde
they
loste
theyr
sterre
as
the
prophecye
of
Ysaye
sayd
)
Surge
illuminare
Ihrlm
quia
venit
lumen
tnum
et
gloria
dni
super
te
orta
est
quia
ecce
tenebre
operient
terram
&
caligo
populos
)
that
is
to
say
/
Iherusalem
aryse
and
take
lyght
for
thy
lyghte
is
come
to
the
&
the
Ioye
of
god
is
sprongen
vpon
the.
for
loo
.
derknesse
shall
couere
the
erthe
and
a
clowde
the
people
/
¶
Whan
thyse
thre
kynges
were
nyghe
Iherusalem
.
thenne
Mechior
kynge
of
Nubie
&
of
Arabie
wyth
his
people
was
fast
by
the
hyll
of
Caluarie
there
Cryst
was
doon
on
the
crosse
by
the
wyll
of
god
.
there
he
abode
in
the
clowde
&
in
derknesse
/
And
that
tyme
the
hyll
of
Caluarie
was
a
roche
of
twelue
grees
of
heyghte
/
And
on
this
hyll
theues
and
other
men
for
dyuers
trespaces
were
put
to
theyr
dethe
/
There
was
also
besyde
this
hyll
an
hyghe
way
.
and
to
that
highe
waye
were
thre
highe
wayes
metynge
togyder
/
And
soo
for
derknesse
of
the
clowde
.
and
for
they
knewe
not
the
way
they
abode
there
&
yede
no
ferther
at
that
tyme
/
AFter
that
Melchior
was
thus
come
.
thenne
nexte
hym
a
lytyll
vnder
the
clowde
came
kynge
Balthazar
that
was
kinge
of
Godolie
and
of
Saba
with
all
his
hoste
.
and
abode
besyde
the
mount
of
Caluarie
in
a
lytyll
towne
whyche
is
called
Galilee
/
And
holy
wrytte
spekyth
moche
of
that
towne
/
For
the
discyples
of
god
almyghty
before
his
resurreccyon
and
after
also
were
wonte
alwaye
to
come
thyther
togider
/
In
that
towne
god
almyghty
appered
to
his
discyples
after
his
resurreccion
/
As
it
is
wreten
in
the
gospell
(
Precedet
vos
in
galileam
ibi
eum
videbitis
)
that
is
/
He
shall
goo
tofore
you
in
to
Galilee
and
there
ye
shal
se
him
¶
But
there
is
a
londe
that
is
called
Galilee
.
and
that
is
a
grete
lordshypp̄
.
and
it
is
thre
dayes
Iourneye
from
Iherusalem
/
ANd
whan
thise
.ij.
kynges
Melcheor
&
Balthazar
were
come
&
taryed
in
thise
places
for
sayd
in
the
clowde
&
derknes
.
thenne
the
clowde
wexed
clere
.
but
the
sterre
appered
not
/
Soo
whan
thise
.ij.
kynges
sawe
that
they
were
nye
Ihrlm
though
neyther
of
them
knew
other
.
they
toke
their
way
to
warde
the
cyte
/
And-they
mette
togyder
besyde
the
mount
of
Caluarie
there
as
thre
wayes
were
metyng
togyder
/
Thenne
came
the
kynge
Iasper
kyng
of
Taars
&
of
the
yle
of
Egryswyll
wyth
all
his
oost
.
And
soo
thyse
thre
gloryous
kynges
wyth
alle
theyr
meyne
.
caryage
&
beestes
mette
togyder
in
this
hyhe
waye
/
And
notwythstondyng
that
none
of
theim
neuer
before
had
seen
other
.
ne
none
of
them
knewe
others
persones
.
ne
knewe
of
others
comynge
.
yet
atte
theyr
metynge
eche
of
theym
anone
ryght
wyth
grete
Ioye
&
reuerence
kyssed
other
/
And
though
they
were
of
dyuers
langages
.
yet
eche
of
them
to
theyr
semynge
spake
one
manere
of
speche
/
Soo
whan
they
had
spoken
togyder
.
&
eche
of
theym
had
tolde
hys
Iourney
&
the
cause
of
his
waye
/
Alle
theyr
causes
were
acordynge
in
to
one
/
Thenne
were
they
moche
the
gladder
&
the
more
feruente
in
theyr
waye
.
&
soo
they
rode
forth
/
And
sodenly
at
the
vprysynge
of
the
sonne
they
came
in
to
the
cyte
of
Iherusalem
/
And
whan
they
knewe
that
Iherusalem
was
the
kinges
cytee
the
whyche
theyr
predecessoures
&
the
Caldees
of
olde
tyme
had
byseged
&
distroyed
.
they
were
ful
glad
.
supposing
to
haue
founde
the
kynge
Ihesu
there
borne
in
the
same
cyte
/
¶
And
that
tyme
was
Herode
in
Iherusalem
/
&
he
&
all
the
cyte
were
gretly
dys
trowbled
of
theyr
sodenly
comynge
/
For
theyr
company
&
theyr
beestes
were
of
soo
grete
nombre
&
soo
grete
multitude
that
the
cyte
myght
not
receyue
theym
/
But
for
the
moost
partye
laye
wythout
the
cyte
al
aboute
/
Wherof
Ysayas
prophecied
&
sayd
)
Eortitudo
gencium
venerit
tibi
inundacio
camellorum
operiet
te
dromedarij
madian
&
effa
.
omnes
de
saba
venient
aurum
&
thus
deferentes
&
laudem
dno
annunciantes
)
that
is
to
saye
/
The
strength
of
folke
cometh
to
the
Iherusalem
grete
plente
of
camelles
shall
couere
.
the
dromedaries
of
Madian
&
of
Effa
shall
come
to
the.
many
folke
shall
come
fro
Saba
bryngyng
golde
&
ensence
and
yeuynge
laude
to
god
/
THis
Herode
was
ordeyned
kinge
by
the
emperour
&
by
the
Romaynes
.
and
he
was
but
yonge
of
aege
.
and
was
that
tyme
in
his
palayes
in
Iherusalem
/
And
thenne
thyse
thre
kynges
asked
in
that
cyte
of
the
people
where
that
chylde
was
borne
.
wherof
speketh
in
the
gospell
th
euangelist
)
Cum
natus
esset
ihūs
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
say
/
Whan
god
was
born
in
Bedleem
in
the
cyte
of
Iewery
in
the
dayes
of
Herode
kynge
of
the
same
londe
.
thre
kynges
came
oute
of
the
Eest
&
sayd
)
Where
is
he
the
is
borne
the
kynge
of
Iewes
.
we
sawe
his
sterre
in
the
Eest
and
we
be
come
to
worshyppe
hym
(
And
Herode
herde
this
and
he
was
dystourbled
&
all
Iherusalem
wyth
hym
/
And
he
gadred
togyder
all
the
prynces
&
the
preestes
.
and
asked
of
theym
where
Cryste
sholde
be
borne
/
And
they
sayd
.
in
Bedleem
of
Iewry
.
thus
it
is
wreten
by
the
prophete
)
Thou
Bedieem
londe
of
Iewery
thou
arte
not
lyfyll
amonge
the
prynces
of
Iewery
.
of
the
shall
goo
out
a
duke
that
shall
rule
my
people
of
Israel
(
Thenne
Herode
preuely
called
to
him
the
thre
kynges
&
lerned
of
them
the
tyme
of
the
sterre
that
apperyd
to
theym
.
and
so
sente
theim
forthe
in
to
Bedleem
.
&
sayd
)
Goo
and
enquyte
besely
of
this
childe
.
and
whan
ye
haue
founde
hym
come
telle
me
that
I
may
goo
&
worshyp
hym
(
whan
they
had
herde
the
kynge
they
yede
the
yr
way
/
And
the
sterre
that
they
sawe
in
the
Eest
yede
before
theym
tyll
they
came
there
the
chylde
was
And
whan
they
sawe
the
sterre
thei
were
right
gladde
And
they
yede
in
to
the
hous
and
openyd
theyr
tresours
.
and
offred
to
hym
.
golde
.
ensence
.
&
myrre
/
All
this
is
the
gospell
/
And
in
theyr
slepe
an
aungell
came
fro
god
&
badde
theym
that
they
sholde
not
goo
ayen
to
Herode
/
And
soo
they
torned
home
to
theyr
countree
by
a nother
waye
/
¶
Of
thyse
thre
kynges
why
they
came
fyrst
in
to
Iherusalem
rather
than
in
to
Bedleem
many
bokes
in
dyuers
manere
declare
/
and
many
causes
ben
wreten
whyche
were
to
longe
to
telle
/
But
amonge
all
other
causes
one
is
.
that
kynge
Herode
&
the
Cyteyzyns
were
soo
distrowbled
for
theyr
soden
comynge
.
and
also
they
seenge
that
thyse
lordes
were
kynges
.
and
theyr
hoste
came
oute
of
Caldee
&
oute
of
the
Eest
.
the
whyche
of
olde
tyme
thrugh
suffraunce
of
god
had
oft
tymes
pursued
theyr
kynge
and
besegyd
&
distroyed
the
cyte
of
Ihrlm
&
that
londe
abowte
/
A nother
for
they
came
fro
soo
ferre
countices
to
worshyp
the
kynge
of
Iewes
that
was
latly
borne
/
And
by
cause
that
Herode
was
but
an
straunger
and
was
made
kyng
by
the
emperour
&
the
Romaynes
.
he
was
aferde
leest
he
sholde
haue
loste
his
kyngdom
by
cause
that
Cryste
was
borne
/
Also
a nother
cause
was
chise
thre
kynges
of
goddis
ordenaunce
came
soo
to
Iherusalem
wythout
auysement
whan
they
had
loste
theyr
sterre
/
For
Iherusalem
was
the
kynges
cyte
.
and
alwaye
the
kinges
of
the
londe
were
moost
abydynge
there
.
and
doctours
of
the
lawe
&
the
Scrybes
with
theyr
scriptures
and
prophecyes
were
euermore
present
in
that
cyte
/
So
the
Iewes
and
the
Scrybes
knewe
well
longe
tyme
before
.
cryste
sholde
be
borne
in
that
place
/
¶
Wherfore
Iewes
maye
neuer
shewe
cause
to
excuse
theim
of
theyr
false
byleue
/
Of
this
sayth
saynt
Gregory
in
his
Omelie
)
Iudeos
profecto
.
bene
ysaac
cum
iacob
tilium
suum
benediceret
presignauif
.
qui
caligans
oculis
&
prophetizans
in
presenti
filium
non
vidit
cui
tamen
in
posterum
multum
preuidit
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
saye
/
By
this
we
maye
vnderstonde
the
Iewes
.
for
Ysaac
whan
he
was
blynde
and
myghte
not
se
he
blessyd
Iacob
his
sone
and
prophecyed
of
hym
/
And
moreouer
whan
he
had
him
in
his
presence
before
hym
he
sawe
hym
not
/
And
yet
he
sawe
in
spyryte
many
thinges
whiche
sholde
falle
to
hym
afterwarde
/
In
lyke
manere
so
the
Iewes
were
gretely
ful
of
the
spyrite
of
prophecye
/
But
hym
that
they
prophecyed
of
whan
they
had
him
among
theym
they
knewe
him
not
.
For
they
dispysed
hym
whan
he
was
born
/
And
longe
tyme
tofore
they
prophecyed
of
his
byrth
.
and
not
oonly
that
he
sholde
be
borne
.
but
in
what
place
he
sholde
be
borne
they
tolde
to
Herode
/
¶
So
theyr
knowynge
&
theyr
prophecye
shall
bere
wytnesse
to
theyr
dampnacyon
and
vs
helpe
of
our
byleue
&
cause
of
oure
saluacyon
/
Whan
thyse
thre
kynges
were
enfourmed
by
Herode
&
by
the
doctours
of
the
lawe
of
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
.
and
of
the
place
where
he
was
borne
&
were
passed
out
of
the
cyte
of
Iherusalem
/
Thenne
the
sterre
appered
to
theim
agayne
as
it
dyde
before
.
and
soo
it
yede
forth
before
theim
tyll
they
came
in
to
Bedleem
.
whiche
is
but
two
myles
fro
Iherusalem
/
And
faste
by
that
place
as
it
is
afore
sayd
were
the
shepeherdes
to
whom
the
angell
appered
wyth
grete
lyghte
&
shewed
to
theym
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
/
And
thyse
thre
kynges
rode
by
the
same
place
there
the
shepeherdes
were
and
spake
wyth
them
/
And
whan
the
shepeherdes
sawe
the
sterre
they
ranne
togyder
.
and
sayd
that
in
suche
a
lyghte
&
suche
a
clerenesse
an
angell
appered
to
to
theym
&
told
theym
of
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
and
alle
that
the
angell
sayd
to
theym
/
And
al
that
they
had
herde
&
seen
they
tolde
the
kinges
.
wherof
the
kynges
were
righte
gladde
.
and
with
good
chere
toke
grete
consyderacyon
of
the
shepeherdes
wordes
/
And
so
of
wytnesse
of
the
shepeherdes
&
of
the
voyce
of
the
aungell
that
apperyd
in
the
sterre
and
was
herde
the
kynges
had
doubte
of
no
thyng
/
¶
Some
bokes
in
the
Eest
saye
that
voyce
that
was
herde
oute
of
the
sterre
was
the
voyce
of
the
same
angell
that
shewed
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
bothe
to
the
shepeherdes
and
to
the
kynges
/
¶
They
saye
also
in
the
Eest
that
the
Iewes
bileue
in
that
the
angell
that
yede
before-the
children
of
Israel
with
a
pylar
of
fyre
whan
they
yede
out
of
Egipte
.
that
same
angell
it
was
whoos
voyce
was
herde
in
the
sterre
.
and
that
yede
so
forth
wyth
the
sterre
before
the
thre
kynges
/
For
whan
the
thre
kynges
spake
wyth
the
shepeherdes
.
the
sterre
more
&
more
began
to
shyne
bryghter
&
bryghter
¶
Thyse
thre
kynges
were
the
fyrste
of
myscreauntes
that
byleued
on
Cryste
.
and
the
shepeherdes
were
the
firste
of
Iewes
that
byleuyd
on
Cryste
/
And
all
though
the
kynges
were
noo
Iewewes
yet
they
sayde
that
they
came
to
worshyppe
the
kynge
of
Iewes
/
WHan
the
kynges
had
spoken
wyth
the
shepe
herdes
.
thenne
they
gaaf
theim
grete
gyftes
and
soo
rode
forth
to
Bedleem
/
Thenne
anone
as
they
were
come
vnto
Bedleem
they
lighted
downe
of
theyr
horses
&
chaunged
theyr
araye
.
and
clothed
theym
in
the
beste
and
rychest
clothes
that
they
hadde
/
And
as
kinges
sholde
be
arayed
they
arayed
themselfe
/
And
alwayes
the
sterre
yede
forth
tofore
theim
/
And
the
nerer
that
they
came
to
the
place
the
more
the
sterre
shyned
bryghter
and
bryghter
/
And
thenne
they
rode
thorugh
the
Coueryd
strete
as
it
is
tolde
afore
tyll
they
came
to
the
lytyll
hous
where
in
Crste
was
borne
/
And
the
sterre
stode
styll
vpon
the
grounde
tofore
the
door
/
And
anone
after
the
sterre
departed
hymself
in
soo
grete
lyghte
.
that
the
lytyll
hous
&
the
caue
wythin
was
full
of
lyghte
/
And
soo
anone
the
sterre
ascended
vp
in
to
the
ayre
.
and
there
stode
styll
alwaye
in
the
same
place
.
as
it
is
sayde
in
the
gospell
tofore
(
Et
intrantes
domum
&
c̈
)
And
entrynge
in
to
the
house
they
founde
our
lady
&
her
chylde
.
and
fell
downe
and
worshipped
hym
and
offred
to
hym
gyftes
.
Golde
.
Myrre
.
and
Ensence
/
¶
Of
this
came
afterward
an
vse
in
that
countree
of
the
Eest
/
There
shal
noo
man
come
in
the
presence
of
the
Soudan
.
or
of
a
kynge
to
speke
wyth
hym
but
he
haue
golde
or
syluer
or
some
other
rychesse
in
his
hondes
/
And
also
or
he
speke
wyth
the
Soudan
he
shall
kysse
the
grounde
/
And
this
is
vsed
in
that
countree
vnto
this
daye
/
¶
Ferthermore
frere
Minours
whan
they
shall
come
to
the
Soudan
or
to
a
kynge
they
must
offre
to
hym
peeres
or
apples
/
For
they
maye
towche
no
golde
nor
syluer
/
And
the
Soudan
receyuyth
the
peeres
or
apples
wyth
reuerence
&
mekenesse
/
¶
And
that
tyme
that
thise
thre
kynges
offeed
thus
to
Cryste
.
he
was
in
his
manhede
.
a
lytyll
chylde
of
.xiij.
dayes
of
aege
/
And
he
laye
wrappyd
in
clothes
of
lytyll
valewe
in
his
moders
lappe
/
¶
As
it
is
wreten
in
dyuerse
bokes
she
was
in
persone
flesshly
.
and
somwhat
browne
/
And
in
presence
of
thyse
thre
kynges
she
was
couered
wyth
a
poore
whyte
mantell
.
and
that
she
helde
close
tofore
her
wyth
her
lyfte
honde
/
And
her
heed
was
couered
all
togyder
saue
her
face
wyth
a
lynnen
cloth
/
And
she
sate
vpon
the
maynger
/
And
wyth
her
ryght
honde
she
helde
vp
god
almyghtys
heed
/
Soo
after
thyse
thre
kynges
had
worshypped
god
&
kyssed
his
hondes
ryght
deuowtly
.
and
layed
theyr
gyftes
besyde
Crystys
heed
.
what
was
done
wyth
thyse
gyftes
ye
shall
here
afterwarde
/
MElchior
kyng
of
Nubie
and
of
Arabie
that
offred
golde
to
god
:
he
was
leest
of
stature
&
of
persone
/
And
Balthazar
that
was
kyng
of
Godolie
&
of
Saba
that
offryd
ensence
.
he
was
of
a
meane
stature
/
And
Iasper
that
was
kynge
of
Taars
and
of
thyle
of
Egriswill
that
offred
myrre
he
was
moost
of
stature
.
and
he
was
a
blacke
Ethyopye
wythout
doubte
/
¶
For
the
prophete
sayd
)
Coram
illo
procident
ethiopes
&
inimici
eius
terram
lingent
venient
ad
te
qui
detrahebant
tibi
&
adorabunt
vestigia
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
vnderstond
/
Byfore
hym
shal
falle
and
bowe
downe
Ethiopies
.
and
his
enmyes
shall
lycke
the
erthe
.
they
shall
come
to
the
that
dethrahyd
the.
and
they
shall
worshippe
the
steppes
of
thy
fete
/
¶
But
hauynge
regarde
to
the
persones
that
were
that
tyme
they
were
but
lytyll
persones
thoos
thre
kynges
.
in
soo
moche
that
all
manere
of
people
had
moche
merueylle
therof
/
And
that
semyd
well
that
they
were
come
from
ferce
countrees
/
For
the
nerer
the
Eeest
and
the
vprysynge
of
the
sonne
that
men
ben
born
the
lesse
they
ben
of
stature
.
and
the
more
feble
&
tender
.
and
herbes
ben
the
hoter
and
serpentes
and
suche
wormes
and
peryllous
beestes
ben
the
greter
and
the
more
venemous
/
And
all
other
beestes
&
fowles
ben
there
more
grete
than
here
/
¶
Also
thyle
kynges
broughte
wyth
theym
many
ryche
gyftes
&
ornamentes
that
kynge
Alisaunder
whyche
conqueryd
all
the
worlde
lefte
in
Ynde
and
in
Caldee
and
in
Perse
.
and
alle
the
ornamentes
that
the
quene
of
Saba
founde
in
Salamons
Temple
.
and
dyuerse
vessell
that
were
of
the
kinges
hous
and
of
the
Temple
of
god
in
Iherusalem
/
The
whyche
in
the
tyme
of
dystruccyon
of
Iherusalem
were
borne
in
to
the
countrees
&
londes
by
theym
of
Perse
&
of
Cal●dee
/
And
many
other
Iewelles
bothe
of
golde
&
syluer
and
precyous
stones
thyse
kynges
brought
wyth
theym
&
offred
to
god
/
BVt
whan
thei
founde
our
lorde
Cryst
Ihesu
layed
in
that
Cribbe
&
in
poore
clothes
.
and
the
sterre
had
yeue
soo
grete
lyghte
in
all
the
place
there
Cryst
was
that
it
semed
as
they
had
stonde
in
a
furnays
of
fyre
.
they
were
so
sore
aferde
.
that
of
all
those
ryche
Iewels
and
ornamentes
that
they
brought
with
theim
they
toke
noo
thyng
out
of
their
coffres
but
that
came
nexte
theyr
hondes
.
as
it
was
the
wyll
of
oure
lorde
/
¶
And
Melchior
toke
out
of
his
tresory
a
rounde
appyll
of
golde
as
moche
as
a
man
myghte
holde
in
his
honde
&
.xxx.
gylte
pence
.
&
that
he
offred
to
god
/
Bathazar
kynge
of
Godolie
&
of
Saba
toke
out
of
his
tresour
ensence
as
it
came
next
to
his
honde
&
he
offred
that
to
god
/
Iasper
as
it
came
to
his
honde
offred
myrre
to
god
wyth
wepyng
teeres
/
Soo
thyse
thre
kynges
were
soo
aferde
&
soo
deuowte
in
theyr
offrynge
.
that
of
all
the
wordes
that
our
lady
sayd
that
tyme
thei
toke
but
lytyl
consyderacyon
/
Saue
oonly
to
euery
kynge
as
thei
offred
to
god
she
bowed
downe
wyth
her
heed
.
and
sayd
mekely
)
Deo
gracias
)
that
is
to
saye
/
Thankinges
be
to
god
/
¶
Th
appyll
of
golde
that
Melchior
offryd
wyth
the
.xxx.
pence
was
somtyme
kynge
Alysaunders
the
grete
conquerour
/
And
he
dyde
make
the
same
appyll
of
small
peces
of
golde
that
he
had
gadred
of
the
trybute
of
all
the
worlde
/
And
that
he
bare
alway
in
his
honde
/
And
this
appyll
was
left
in
Ynde
whan
he
was
comen
fro
Paradyse
wyth
many
other
ryche
Iewels
/
¶
Morouer
it
is
the
manere
of
that
countree
of
the
Eest
whan
a
Soudan
or
a
kynge
passeth
thrugh
a
cyte
.
thenne
euery
man
after
his
power
is
tofore
his
owne
door
hall
caste
ensence
and
myrre
in
a
fire
/
&
what
man
dooth
it
not
he
is
hold
a
rebell
ayenst
the
Soudan
or
kynge
.
for
therto
is
take
good
hede
/
And
this
vsage
in
all
the
Eest
betokenyth
newe
subieccyon
&
dayly
obedyence
both
to
god
&
to
theyr
mawmettes
.
or
to
a
king
whether
if
is
do
ne
to
/
Also
in
olde
tyme
Martyrs
were
not
only
constreyned
to
worshyppe
mawmettes
.
but
also
to
worshyppe
theym
wyth
ensence
&
fyre
/
And
this
manner
Sarrazyns
aske
.
alway
of
Crysten
men
that
ben
in
theyr
pryson
for
to
come
in
to
theyr
Temple
of
theyr
goddes
.
&
worshypfully
to
doo
sacrefyce
to
theyr
mawmettes
wyth
fyre
&
ensence
/
WHan
almyghty
god
lowed
&
meked
hymselfe
&
became
man
for
our
saluacyon
.
&
was
borne
of
the
blessyd
moder
Mary
.
yet
he
had
noo
nede
of
gyftes
of
the
thre
kynges
/
Neuerthelesse
the
rounde
appyll
of
golde
that
was
offred
to
hymanone
as
kynge
Melchior
had
offred
it
.
it
was
in
a
moment
al
broken
in
to
duste
/
¶
So
we
shall
vnderstonde
in
fygure
as
the
stone
that
was
kytte
oute
of
the
hyll
wythout
mannys
honde
or
ony
Instrument
and
brake
an
horrible
mawmette
vnto
duste
&
powder
.
the
whyche
the
kynge
Nabugodonosar
sawe
in
his
slepe
/
Ryght
soo
that
stone
.
that
is
to
saye
.
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
with
out
ony
corrupcyon
of
synne
was
borne
in
to
this
worlde
/
The
appyll
that
betokenyth
the
worlde
thrugh
his
mekenesse
&
his
vertue
&
the
streyngth
of
his
godhede
in
a
moment
he
brake
alle
to
noughte
/
¶
What
befell
of
thyse
yeftes
ye
maye
here
afterwarde
/
AS
thise
.iij.
kynges
had
thus
perfourmed
their
waye
&
theyr
offrynge
&
done
all
thynge
that
they
came
fore
.
thenne
as
mankynde
axyth
&
wolde
they
&
theyr
meyne
.
&
their
horses
&
beestes
began
to
ete
&
drinke
&
slepe
.
and
all
that
daye
they
toke
their
reste
&
playsur
in
that
towne
of
Bedleem
/
For
as
it
is
tolde
before
they
ne
ete
ne
dranke
.
in
all
those
xiij
.
dayes
/
And
thenne
they
tolde
mekely
to
men
of
Bedleem
of
theyr
countrees
.
&
how
merueyllously
they
came
thyder
by
ledynge
of
the
sterre
fro
the
ferdest
parte
of
the
worlde
/
&
Ferdermore
as
the
gospel
sayth
Et
responso
accepto
in
sompnis
ne
redirent
ad
herodem
per
aliam
viam
reuersi
sunt
in
regionem
suam
)
that
is
to
say
The
angel
of
god
warned
the
thre
kynges
in
theyr
slepe
that
they
sholde
not
torne
ayen
to
Herode
.
&
so
by
a nother
waye
they
yede
home
to
theyr
kyngdoms
/
But
that
sterre
that
yede
afore
theym
appered
no
more
after
/
And
so
thyse
.iij.
kynges
yede
all
homwardes
togider
in
to
theyr
owne
countrees
with
grefe
Ioye
&
honour
.
&
they
rode
forth
with
all
theyr
caryage
&
peple
thrugh
al
the
londes
&
prouinces
that
Olifernes
had
of
olde
tyme
/
And
for
the
company
of
people
men
of
the
countree
demed
the
Olifernes
to
be
come
thyder
ayen
.
&
whan
they
came
in
to
ony
towne
or
Cyte
they
were
receyued
worshypfully
of
alle
the
people
/
¶
And
moreouer
they
prechyd
&
tolde
to
the
people
as
they
rode
all
that
they
had
seen
and
herde
.
And
soo
well
payed
for
theyr
vytaylles
and
spake
so
mekely
and
goodly
that
theyr
names
and
theyr
praysynge
was
neuer
after
forgoten
/
¶
But
the
way
that
they
had
rydden
to
Bedleem
warde
in
.xiij.
dayes
thorugh
ledinge
and
conduytyng
of
the
sterre
.
they
myght
vnneth
ryde
and
goo
ayen
in
two
yeres
/
And
that
was
done
for
men
sholde
knowe
what
dyfference
was
be
twene
goddys
might
&
mannys
power
&
werkyng
/
WHan
Herode
and
all
the
Scrybes
and
other
people
herde
telle
that
thyse
thre
kynges
were
goon
home
agayn
and
were
not
come
to
hym
as
he
badde
theim
.
thenne
wyth
grete
enuye
&
malyce
he
pursued
after
theym
a
grete
waye
/
And
al
way
as
he
rode
after
the
kynges
he
herde
all
the
people
blesse
theym
&
prayse
theym
.
and
speke
of
theyr
noblesse
/
Wherfore
this
Herode
brent
&
dystroyed
al
all
the
londe
that
the
thre
kynges
had
rode
by
.
&
specyally
theim
of
Taars
&
Silicie
.
For
he
put
vpon
the
〈◊〉
that
they
had
suffred
them
preuely
to
passe
there
ouer
the
see
.
&
therfore
he
brent
all
theyr
shyppes
&
to
he
all
their
good
/
Also
he
&
his
Scribes
pursued
thyse
kynges
with
grete
enuie
.
for
they
herde
the
people
tell
how
wonderly
they
came
oute
of
theyr
londes
in
.xiij.
dayes
thrugh
ledyng
of
the
sterre
/
And
how
they
yede
home
ayen
without
sterre
or
guydes
or
Interpretours
/
For
all
manere
of
men
that
thyse
thre
kynges
passed
by
suffysed
not
to
tell
how
wonderfully
they
passed
by
theym
nyghte
&
daye
/
And
therof
Iewes
that
dwelled
in
dyuers
londes
&
places
bare
wytnesse
her
of
to
Herode
&
to
all
the
Scribes
and
to
all
the
Iewes
And
soo
for
the
wonderfull
doynge
the
Paynems
that
had
noo
knowynge
of
holy
wrytte
.
ne
of
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
called
thise
thre
kynges
Magos
.
that
is
to
saye
.
wytches
/
And
the
Iewes
that
knewe
the
scrypture
&
the
byrthe
of
Cryste
.
and
the
places
of
enuye
&
falsnesse
excyted
the
Paynems
all
abowte
to
calle
theim
wytches
.
and
soo
it
was
broughte
in
to
vsage
that
they
call
thise
thre
kynges
so
yet
vnto
this
daye
and
therof
beryth
many
dyuers
bokes
witnesse
/
But
to
put
away
all
manere
of
doubtes
and
in
repreuynge
of
all
the
false
Iewes
.
almyghty
god
that
is
euer
wonderful
in
his
werkynge
&
gloryous
in
his
sayntes
wolde
haue
the
preuyte
of
his
birthe
to
be
knowe
to
all
the
people
/
Soo
that
this
gloryous
name
that
was
oonly
hidde
in
the
londe
of
Iewery
vnto
his
byrthe
/
That
same
name
all
manere
of
nacyons
thrugh
all
the
worlde
sholde
worshypp
knowe
&
prayse
/
AFter
thise
thre
kynges
were
come
wyth
grete
traueylle
to
the
hyll
of
Vaws
afore
sayde
then
they
made
there
a
fayr
chapell
in
worshyppe
of
the
chylde
that
they
had
sought
/
And
they
made
couenaunt
to
mete
togyder
all
thre
at
that
same
chapell
ones
in
the
yere
at
a
certayn
daye
assygned
/
&
there
they
ordeyned
their
sepultures
/
¶
Then
a
lytyll
whyle
after
all
the
prynces
&
the
lordes
and
the
worshipfull
knyghtes
of
theyr
londes
&
kyngdomes
herynge
of
the
comynge
home
of
thyse
thre
kynges
.
anone
they
rode
to
theym
wyth
grete
solempnyte
and
mette
wyth
theym
at
the
sayde
chapell
/
And
wyth
grete
mekenesse
&
reuerence
they
receyued
theym
/
And
whan
the
prynces
&
lordes
herde
how
merueyllously
god
had
wroughte
by
thyse
thre
kynges
/
thenne
they
had
theim
in
more
reuerence
&
loue
and
drede
euer
after
/
¶
So
whan
thyse
thre
kynges
had
ordeyned
theyr
Testamentes
&
done
what
they
wolde
.
thenne
they
toke
leue
eche
of
other
/
And
eche
of
theym
wyth
his
owne
people
rode
hoome
vnto
hys
owne
londe
wyth
grete
Ioye
&
solempnyte
.
and
thus
eche
kynge
departed
from
other
in
theyr
persones
/
but
neuer
in
theyr
hertes
/
And
whan
they
were
rested
in
their
owne
londes
.
thenne
they
tolde
and
preched
to
all
the
people
all
that
they
had
seen
and
done
in
theyr
waye
/
And
they
dyde
make
in
theyr
Temples
a
sterre
after
the
same
fourme
and
liknesse
as
it
apperyd
to
theim
/
Wherfore
the
Paynems
lefte
their
errours
and
theyr
mawmettes
and
worshypped
the
chylde
whyche
the
kynges
had
soughte
/
¶
And
thus
thise
thre
kynges
dwelled
in
their
londes
and
kyngdoms
in
worshypfull
and
honeste
conuersacyon
tyll
after
the
Ascencyon
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
/
And
wythin
shorte
tyme
after
thenne
came
saynt
Thomas
th
appostle
in
to
theyr
countrees
/
AFter
the
tyme
that
thise
thre
kynges
were
to
me
from
Bedleem
in
to
their
owne
countrees
agayn
/
Thenne
beganne
to
ryse
&
sprynge
a
grete
fame
of
our
lady
and
of
her
childe
and
of
the
thre
kinges
abuote
all
the
countree
of
Iherusalem
Wherfore
our
lady
for
drede
of
the
Iewes
fledde
oute
of
that
lytyll
house
that
god
was
borne
in
&
yede
in
to
a nother
derke
caue
vnder
the
erthe
/
And
there
she
abode
wyth
her
chylde
to
the
tyme
of
her
Purificacyon
/
And
as
goddys
wyll
was
dyuers
men
&
wȳ
men
louyd
our
lady
saynt
Mary
and
her
sone
.
and
founde
theym
all
manere
necessaryes
that
theim
neded
/
¶
And
after
whan
the
fayth
began
to
wexe
and
encrease
.
thenne
was
edifyed
there
a
chapell
in
the
same
caue
in
worshyppe
of
the
thre
kynges
and
of
saynt
Nicholas
/
¶
And
in
that
chapell
there
is
a
stone
whyche
our
lady
was
wont
to
sytte
on
whan
she
yaue
her
chylde
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
sucke
/
And
on
a
tyme
as
she
satte
vppon
that
stone
in
gyuynge
to
her
swete
chylde
sucke
.
there
hapned
to
falle
downe
from
her
teete
a
lytyll
droppe
of
that
moost
purest
and
moost
clene
vyrgynall
mylke
on
the
forsayyd
stone
.
the
whyche
moost
precyous
and
purest
mylke
that
fell
from
that
blessyd
vyrgyn
is
remaynyng
and
seen
there
vnto
this
daye
/
And
the
more
it
is
shrapyd
wyth
knyues
.
the
more
wexyth
the
mylke
/
And
it
is
borne
in
to
many
dyuers
places
by
pylgrymes
¶
Also
whan
our
lady
was
goon
out
of
the
lytyll
hous
in
to
the
caue
she
had
forgote
her
smocke
behynde
her
in
the
haye
of
the
maynger
there
our
lady
laye
in
/
And
soo
bothe
haye
&
smocke
were
hoole
&
fressh
in
the
same
place
vnto
the
tyme
that
saynt
Eleyn
that
holy
quene
that
was
moder
to
kyng
Constantyn
came
to
the
place
/
For
the
Iewes
of
malyce
&
of
enuye
helde
that
place
that
Criste
was
borne
in
a
foule
cursyd
place
/
In
somoche-that
they
wold
suffre
no
man
nor
woman
ne
chylde
ne
beest
goo
in
to
that
place
/
¶
Ferdermore
whan
our
lady
had
offred
vp
her
childe
in
to
the
temple
wyth
the
turtles
&
douues
after
Moyses
lawe
.
as
holy
wrytte
telleth
/
And
Symeon
toke
him
in
his
armes
&
sayd
)
Nunc
dimittis
seruum
tuum
dne
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
saye
/
Now
lorde
lete
thy
secuaunt
be
in
peas
after
thy
worde
/
The
same
tyme
Symeon
&
Anne
the
holy
woman
in
presence
of
the
Scribes
&
Pharisees
prophecied
many
thinges
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
as
holy
wrytte
tellyth
/
And
so
grete
a
name
was
spronge
of
our
lady
&
of
her
sone
amonge
the
Iewes
that
she
myghte
not
ne
durst
not
noo
lenger
abide
in
that
place
for
drede
of
Herode
&
of
the
Iewes
/
And
the
Gospell
sayth
(
Angelus
dni
apparuit
in
sompnis
ioseph
dicens
Surge
&
accipe
puerum
&
c̈
that
is
for
to
saye
/
An
angell
of
god
apperyd
to
Ioseph
in
his
slepe
&
sayd
Ryse
and
take
the
chylde
and
his
moder
and
fle
in
to
Egypte
.
and
be
there
tyll
I
tell
the
/
For
Herode
shall
seke
the
chylde
to
dystroye
hym
/
Thenne
Ioseph
roos
&
toke
the
childe
and
his
moder
&
yede
in
to
Egypte
by
night
and
dwelled
there
tyll
Herode
was
deed
/
Our
lady
&
her
sone
were
in
Egypte
dwellynge
.vij.
yeres
.
and
it
is
from
Bedleem
.xij.
dayes
Iourney
/
And
in
this
way
as
our
lady
went
in
to
Egypte
she
sawe
growe
drie
roses
.
the
whyche
ben
callyd
the
roses
of
Ierico
.
and
they
growe
in
noo
place
of
all
the
countree
but
only
in
the
same
way
/
And
thise
roses
the
shepeherdes
of
the
same
countree
done
gadre
in
tyme
of
yere
&
selltheym
to
pylgrymes
for
bredde
&
to
other
men
of
that
countrees
abowte
.
and
soo
they
ben-borne
in
to
dyuers
londes
/
¶
And
in
the
same
place
there
our
lady
dwellyd
with
her
sone
in
Egypte
is
now
a
gardyne
therin
growyth
bawme
.
and
it
is
allong
&
brode
as
a
man
maye
caste
stone
/
And
in
that
gardyne
ben
vij
.
welles
in
whom
our
lady
wysshe
her
sone
&
bathed
hym
.
and
wasshyd
her
clothes
&
her
sones
clothes
/
And
in
that
gardine
ben
many
busshes
of
bawme
.
&
they
ben
lyke
busshes
of
roses
.
and
ben
but
lytyll
hygher
than
a
fadom
.
and
the
leues
ben
lyke
to
Trayfoylles
/
And
to
euery
busshe
a
crysten
man
one
of
the
Soudans
prysoners
is
assigned
to
kepe
it
&
to
make
it
clene
/
And
there
is
a
grete
wonder
&
a
merueylous
of
thise
busshes
.
for
there
maye
no
man
kepe
theim
ne
dresse
theim
but
he
be
a
crysten
man
and
that
hath
oft
tymes
be
proued
/
For
whan
a
Iewe
or
Paynem
kepyth
them
anone
they
wexe
drye
&
growe
nomore
/
And
in
the
moneth
of
Marche
that
Soudan
is
alwaye
abydynge
in
that
gardyne
/
And
thenne
the
roddes
of
the
busshes
ben
kytte
like
a
vyne
.
and
thenne
they
ben
bounde
aboute
wyth
coton
.
and
vnder
the
kyttynge
of
the
roddes
&
the
coton
ben
sette
dysshes
of
syluer
.
&
so
the
bawme
renneth
downe
in
to
the
vesselles
thrugh
the
coton
as
water
renneth
out
of
a
vyne
/
&
out
of
thise
dysshes
this
bawme
is
put
into
a
grete
potte
of
syluer
.
&
that
potte
is
more
than
vi
.
galons
/
And
the
Soudan
taketh
all
this
bawme
in
to
his
owne
kepyng
specyally
.
but
whan
ony
messager
is
sent
from
a
kynge
for
bawme
.
the
Soudan
yeuyth
hym
a
lytyll
vyall
full
/
And
whan
this
baw
me
is
all
gadred
&
dropped
out
of
the
roddes
.
thenne
euery
crysten
man
that
hath
a
busshe
to
kepe
takith
the
roddes
that
ben
lefte
&
sette
theim
in
water
in
a
clene
potte
.
&
the
bawme
swymmeth
aboue
as
it
were
fatnesse
of
flesshe
/
And
this
bawme
is
gadred
&
is
good
for
all
manere
of
brosynge
/
And
yf
a
man
be
wounded
it
woll
make
hym
hole
anone
/
And
this
bawme
is
solde
to
pylgrymes
of
dyuers
countrees
/
And
soo
it
is
borne
thorugh
dyuers
londes
abowte
/
But
this
bame
is
noo
thyng
soo
vertuous
ne
soo
good
as
the
bawme
that
droppyth
out
of
the
redes
/
For
that
can
not
be
bought
of
the
Soudan
by
no
manere
of
wyse
For
and
a
man
take
a
droppe
of
that
bawme
and
laye
it
on
a
mannys
honde
anone
it
renneth
&
thyr
leth
thorugh
on
that
other
syde
.
and
that
place
shall
neuer
corrupte
ne
rote
after
/
And
that
is
called
rawe
bawme
.
of
whiche
bawme
it
were
ouer
longe
a
matere
to
tell
the
vertue
therof
/
But
all
the
people
in
the
Eest
bileue
that
that
place
is
suche
a
vertue
of
growynge
of
bawme
by
cause
our
lady
dwelled
there
.vij.
yeres
and
wasshed
there
her
clothes
and
her
sones
and
also
bathed
hym
in
those
welles
as
it
is
aforsayd
/
FErthermore
as
it
is
aforsayd
.
that
Melchior
kynge
of
Nubie
and
of
Arabie
offryd
to
god
an
appyll
of
golde
and
.xxx.
pence
gylte
¶
Of
thyse
.xxx.
pence
ye
maye
here
the
begynnyng
and
the
last
ende
/
¶
Thara
that
was
fader
to
Abraham
dyde
make
thyse
.xxx.
gylte
pence
in
the
name
of
the
kynge
of
Mesopotania
.
whyche
kynge
was
called
Nylus
/
And
so
by
processe
of
tyme
.
this
Abraham
whan
he
sholde
take
his
Iourney
to
goo
on
pilgremage
oute
of
the
londe
and
countree
of
Caldee
in
to
the
countree
whyche
was
called
Ebron
whyche
atte
that
tyme
hyghte
Arabie
.
he
toke
thise
forsayd
.xxx.
pence
that
his
fader
Thara
had
doo
make
wyth
hym
/
And
for
those
.xxx.
pence
gylte
he
purchaced
and
boughte
thenne
a
place
for
his
sepulture
&
for
his
two
sones
Isaac
and
Iacob
/
Afterwarde
by
processe
of
tyme
Ioseph
was
solde
of
his
bredern
in
to
Egypte
by
marchauntes
of
Ismalie
for
those
same
.xxx.
pence
sente
in
to
the
londe
of
Saba
for
diuers
spyces
&
oynementes
for
the
sepulture
of
Iacob
&
so
they
were
put
in
to
the-kynges
tresory
/
Thenne
by
processe
of
tyme
in
kynge
Salomons
tyme
that
quene
of
Saba
offred
thise
.xxx.
pence
wyth
many
other
ryche
Iewelles
in
the
temple
of
god
in
Iherusalem
/
¶
Soo
afterwarde
in
the
tyme
of
Roboam
kynge
Salomons
sone
whan
Iherusalem
was
distroyed
&
the
temple
of
god
spoylled
.
thenne
thise
.xxx.
pence
gylte
were
broughte
to
the
kynge
of
Arabie
&
were
put
in
to
his
tresorye
with
many
other
ryche
ornamentes
that
were
brought
out
of
the
temple
of
god
/
¶
Thenne
afterwarde
whan
Cryste
was
borne
.
thenne
Melchi
or
kynge
of
Nubie
&
Arabie
toke
thise
.xxx.
pence
with
hym
and
many
other
ryche
Iewelles
.
by
cause
they
were
of
the
beste
&
fyneste
golde
that
he
had
in
hys
tresory
/
Therfore
he
toke
those
wyth
hym
&
offryd
them
to
god
in
Bedleem
whan
he
was
born
/
Then
after
whan
our
lady
saynt
Mary
yede
out
of
Bedleem
in
to
Egypte
for
drede
of-kynge
Herode
.
she
left
those
yeftes
that
were
offred
to
her
sone
as
she
went
by
the
waye
knytte
all
togyder
in
a
clothe
/
It
hapnyd
after
that
a
shepeherde
that
kepte
shepe
in
the
same
countree
.
the
whyche
had
soo
grete
Infyrmyte
&
dysese
that
noo
leche
myghte
heele
hym
/
And
alle
the
good
that
he
had
he
gaue
to
dyuers
leches
to
make
him
hole
.
but
if
wolde
not
be
/
And
as
he
yede
with
his
shepe
in
that
felde
he
founde
those
.xxx.
pence
wyth
ensence
and
myrre
in
a
clothe
togyder
/
And
those
gyftes
he
kept
to
hymself
preuely
.
tyll
a
lytyll
afore
the
tyme
that
Cryste
went
to
his
passion
/
And
whan
the
shepeherd
herde
speke
of
suche
an
holy
prophete
that
heelyd
all
men
of
theyr
.
Infirmytees
wyth
a
worde
Thenne-he
came
to
god
&
prayed
hym
of
grace
and
of
helpe
.
&
thenne
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
heeled
him
anone
at
a
worde
.
and
enfourmed
hym
in
the
fayth
Thenne
the
shepeherde
offred
to
god
wyth
good
deuocyon
the
.xxx.
pence
wyth
ensence
.
&
myrre
.
as
they
were
bothe
all
togider
in
the
clothe
/
And
god
knewe
those
gyftes
well
ynough
/
And
god
badde
the
shepe
herde
goo
in
to
the
temple
&
offre
all
thyse
thynges
on
the
awter
.
&
soo
he
dyde
goddys
byddynge
&
offred
them
vp
to
the
awter
wyth
grete
deuocyon
/
And
whan
the
preest
of
the
temple
that
kepte
the
offryng
sawe
suche
an
oblacion
offred
on
the
awter
.
in
the
worshyppe
therof
he
reuest
him
&
encensed
the
awter
bycause
suche
oblacyons
were
but
selden
seen
in
that
temple
.
he
toke
with
grete
reuerence
the
ryche
offrynges
&
put
theym
in
to
the
comyn
tresory
/
¶
And
a
lytyll
whyle
after
.
that
is
to
saye
the
thyrde
daye
tofore
Crystis
passyon
Iudas
Scarioth
came
in
to
the
temple
to
the
prynces
of
the
lawe
&
to
the
Iewes
&
made
couenaunt
with
theym
to
betraye
his
mayster
god
almyghty
/
And
for
his
labour
the
pryncis
of
the
lawe
and
the
Iewes
toke
out
of
the
tresory
those
.xxx.
pence
/
¶
Thenne
whan
this
was
done
&
Cryste
was
bytrayed
thrugh
his
discyple
and
sholde
be
deed
for
all
mankynde
as
his
swete
wyll
was
/
Thenne
Iudas
repented
him
.
and
yede
in
to
the
temple
ayen
to
the
prynces
of
the
Iewes
&
caste
downe
ayen
to
theym
thyse
.xxx.
pence
/
And
thenne
as
the
gospel
sayth
he
went
&
hang
hymself
/
Thenne
the
Iewes
bought
wyth
xv
.
of
those
pence
a
felde
for
the
sepultures
of
pylgrymes
as
the
gospell
tellyth
/
And
the
other
.xv.
pence
the
Iewes
gaaf
to
the
knyghtes
that
kept
the
sepulcre
of
Cryste
/
¶
Ye
shall
vnderstonde
that
the
lyknesse
of
thise
.xxx.
pence
was
vsed
in
all
the
countree
.
bothe
in
name
&
in
moneye
from
Abrahams
tyme
vnto
the
dystruccion
of
Iherusalem
.
the
whyche
was
by
Titus
&
Daspasianus
dayes
distroyed
/
But
from
the
tyme
of
Abraham
vnto
the
tyme
of
Crystys
passion
thise
.xxx.
pence
were
neuer
dysceuered
ne
departed
but
euermore
were
bore
hole
togyder
/
And
whan
Cryste
was
solde
for
theym
.
anone
they
were
departed
&
sparpled
aboute
in
dyuers
places
/
¶
And
the
cause
why
thyse
.xxx.
Pence
were
callyd
syluer
in
the
gospell
.
not
wythstondyng
they
were
fyne
golde
/
For
it
is
the
comyn
vsage
in
all
the
countree
soo
for
to
calle
theym
/
As
men
calle
of
this
countree
golde
of
beyonde
the
see
.
as
Scutes
.
motenes
.
or
florens
/
And
yet
in
the
Eest
the
same
prynte
is
made
bothe
in
golde
&
syluer
and
copre
.
and
is
kept
amonge
grete
lordes
of
that
countree
/
And
the
prynte
of
thyse
pence
is
on
the
one
side
a
kynges
heed
crowned
.
and
on
that
other
syde
it
is
wreten
wyth
lettres
of
Caldee
.
the
whyche
wrytynge
men
can
not
redde
now
/
And
one
of
theym
is
worche
.x.
shelynges
.
or
better
than
thre
floreyns
/
And
many
moo
merueylies
ben
tolde
of
thyse
thyrty
pence
.
of
whom
it
were
a
longe
processe
to
telle
/
¶
Also
whan
our
lady
and
Ioseph
were
warned
to
come
out
of
Egypt
bi
an
angel
as
the
gospell
tellyth
/
Thenne
they
were
bydden
to
goo
in
to
Galilee
.
and
there
they
dwelled
in
a
cyte
whiche
was
called
Nazareth
/
And
so
the
prophecye
was
fulfylled
(
Quoniam
nazarenus
vocabitur
)
that
is
to
say
He
shall
be
called
a
man
of
Nazareth
/
¶
And
what
Cryste
dyde
werke
in
erthe
from
that
tyme
tyll
the
thyrde
yere
afore
his
passion
.
the
Euangelistes
openly
declare
not
in
theyr
gospelles
/
WHan
our
lorde
Ihesu
Criste
was
styed
vp
in
to
heuen
.
after
that
he
sente
saynt
Thomas
th
apostle
in
to
Ynde
to
preche
there
goddys
worde
/
In
whiche
Ynde
as
it
is
aforsayd
thise
thre
kynges
the
tyme
regnyd
&
were
lordes
of
those
londes
And
though
it
soo
were
that
saynt
Thomas
ayenst
his
will
yede
in
to
the
londes
of
Ynde
.
yet
it
was
done
of
grete
prouydence
of
god
.
that
the
same
appostle
the
put
his
honde
in
to
goddys
syde
to
knowe
the
he
was
very
god
the
was
rysen
fo
deth
to
lyfe
for
saluacyon
of
man
shold
go
&
preche
the
Passion
of
Cryst
.
his
Resurreccyon
.
&
his
Ascencyon
to
those
worshypful
kinges
that
sought
our
lorde
in
Bedleem
in
his
byrth
.
and
there
wyth
yeftes
worshypped
him
/
¶
And
as
saynt
Gregory
sayth
)
Quod
omnibus
nobis
ꝓfuit
ꝙ
hij
tres
reges
eiusdem
dni
nostri
ih̄u
xpi
infanciam
que
sierunt
et
oculis
viderunt
et
deuotissime
muneribus
adorauerunt
&
probauerunt
)
that
is
to
saye
/
It
was
prouffyte
to
vs
all
that
thyse
worshypfull
kynges
&
theyr
people
soughte
the
childhede
of
Cryste
.
&
with
theyr
eyen
dyde
se
hym
.
and
wyth
theyr
gyftes
worshypfully
&
deuoutly
honoured
hym
and
sothly
preuyd
it
/
¶
Also
the
saynt
Barthylmew
.
Symon
&
Iude
that
were
Cristis
appostles
were
sente
in
to
Ynde
to
preche
the
faythe
amonge
all
the
people
/
For
there
ben
many
partyes
of
Ynde
/
And
one
parte
of
Ynde
is
more
than
all
the
partie
of
the
worlde
on
this
halfe
of
the
see
/
For
this
partye
of
Cristendom
on
this
halfe
the
see
is
no
more
acounted
in
all
theest
but
an
hundred
dayes
Iourney
/
AFter
that
saynt
Thomas
th
appostle
had
prechid
in
the
kingdom
of
Ynde
goddis
worde
&
had
goon
abowte
all
the
Yndes
&
the
prouynces
&
done
many
myracles
thorugh
the
sygne
&
token
of
the
Crosse
&
of
goddis
worde
/
As
he
yede
aboute
in
the
temples
he
founde
a
sterre
paynted
in
euery
temple
after
the
sterre
that
apperyd
to
the
.iij.
kynges
whan
Cryste
was
borne
.
in
whiche
sterre
was
the
signe
of
a
crosse
&
a
chylde
aboue
/
And
whan
saynt
Thomas
sawe
the
sterre
he
asked
of
bysshops
of
the
temple
what
is
was
/
And
bisshops
tolde
saynt
Thomas
how
suche
a
sterre
apperyd
of
olde
tyme
vpon
the
hyll
of
Vaws
in
tokenynge
of
a
chylde
the
was
borne
&
sholde
be
kynge
of
Iewes
.
as
it
was
herde
out
of
the
same
sterre
/
And
for
that
cause
thyse
thre
kynges
yede
out
of
theyr
londes
in
to
Bedleem
worshypfully
thrugh
ledynge
of
the
sterre
&
came
in
to
Bedleem
in
.xiij.
dayes
.
and
there
offred
to
the
childe
that
was
bore
.
but
with
grete
traueyle
afterwarde
they
came
home
in
to
theyr
owne
londes
in
two
yere
/
And
as
those
thre
kynges
hadd
done
&
seen
the
bysshops
of
the
temple
tolde
to
saynt
Thomas
th
apostle
/
Whan
saynt
Thomas
herde
all
this
he
thanked
god
.
&
with
grete
Ioye
he
preched
to
the
bysshops
&
to
all
the
peple
the
chyldhede
of
god
.
his
passion
.
his
resurreccyon
&
his
ascencyon
.
and
all
the
werkis
of
Cryste
whyle
he
was
in
erthe
/
Where
thorugh
the
bysshops
of
the
temples
&
many
other
folke
were
conuerted
to
Cryste
&
were
crystned
/
Ferthermore
saynt
Thomas
mekely
declared
and
dyde
expowne
to
al
the
people
the
vnderstondyng
of
this
sterre
&
of
the
Crosse
/
And
he
casted
out
of
the
Temples
all
mawmettes
/
And
he
halowed
theym
in
the
name
&
in
the
worshyppe
of
that
chylde
Cryste
Ihesu
/
And
thenne
suche
a
fame
beganne
to
rise
in
all
that
countree
abowte
of
saynt
Thomas
for
the
grete
myracles
that
he
wroughte
.
that
all
folke
that
hadde
Infyrmytees
or
ony
other
tormentynge
of
wyckyd
spyrytes
they
came
to
saynt
Thomas
/
And
he
in
the
name
of
god
and
by
the
sygne
of
the
Crosse
heelyd
theym
.
and
conuerted
theym
to
Crystis
fayth
.
and
crystned
theym
.
and
they
that
were
soo
conuerted
to
Cryste
dyde
many
myracles
thorugh
the
vertue
&
sygne
of
the
Crosse
afterward
in
dyuers
places
there
as
saynt
Thomas
hadde
not
vysited
ne
ben
/
SO
whan
saynt
Thomas
had
thus
preched
and
taughte
the
people
/
Thenne
he
yede
to
the
kyngdoms
of
those
thre
kynges
&
founde
them
hole
of
body
and
of
grete
aege
/
And
as
Symeon
had
answere
of
the
holy
ghost
.
that
he
sholde
not
deye
tyll
he
had
seen
Cryste
goddis
sone
.
and
so
he
abode
him
tyll
he
was
broughte
in
to
the
temple
and
there
he
toke
hym
in
his
armes
/
So
in
lyke
wyse
thyse
thre
kynges
prayed
to
god
that
they
sholde
not
deye
tyll
they
were
renewed
wyth
the
holy
ghost
&
wyth
the
sacrament
of
Baptym
/
Soo
whan
they
herde
that
a
man
that
was
disciple
of
Cryst
was
come
in
to
theyr
londes
that
was
callyd
Thomas
.
&
prechyd
to
the
people
of
the
chyldhode
of
Cryst
and
of
his
Passyon
.
Resurreccyon
.
and
Ascencyon
.
and
of
those
werkes
that
Cryste
dyde
here
in
erthe
.
and
specyally
of
the
sacrament
af
baptym
/
Anone
notwythstondyng
that
they
were
of
grete
aege
and
feble
.
yet
they
arayed
them
and
came
al
thre
kynges
to
saynt
Thomas
wyth
other
lordes
and
grete
multitude
of
people
/
And
saynt
Thomas
wyth
grete
Ioye
and
reuerence
receyued
theym
.
and
declaryd
to
theym
all
that
Cryst
taught
here
in
erthe
to
his
dyscyples
.
and
also
his
passyon
/
And
how
he
roos
from
dethe
to
lyfe
the
thirde
daye
.
and
also
how
he
styed
vp
to
heuen
And
how
he
sente
downe
the
holy
ghost
to
the
apostles
.
and
many
other
artycles
of
the
fayth
/
And
specyally
he
tolde
theym
of
the
sacrament
of
Baptym
wythout
whyche
sacrament
there
maye
noo
man
come-to
the
kyngdom
of
heuen
/
And
whan
they
were
thus
enfourmyd
and
Instructe
in
the
fayth
.
thenne
saynt
Thomas
crystnyd
theym
and
more
ouer
all
the
people
that
came
wyth
theym
/
And
anone
thise
thre
kynges
were
replete
and
fulfylled
of
the
holy
ghost
/
And
began
tp
preche
wyth
saynt
Thomas
goddys
worde
/
And
also
they
tolde
the
people
how
they
had
soughte
Cryste
goddys
sone
in
Bedleem
in
his
Natiuyte
as
it
is
tolde
before
/
So
whan
all
this
was
done
thyse
thre
kynges
wente
wyth
saynt
Thomas
&
all
theyr
people
to
the
hylle
of
Vaws
/
And
there
saynt
Thomas
dyde
halowe
the
chapell
that
those
thre
kynges
had
done
made
and
edifyed
vpon
that
hyll
And
there
saynt
Thomas
&
those
thre
kynges
preched
agayne
to
all
the
people
of
Cristen
byleue
.
and
of
the
sterre
that
apppered
to
the
thre
kyngis
/
And
suche
a
Ioye
and
gladnesse
was
amonge
the
people
.
and
suche
a
name
was
rysen
in
al
the
londes
aboute
of
saynt
Thomas
and
of
thise
thre
kynges
cristned
that
all
manere
of
people
bothe
men
and
wymmen
came
from
dyuerse
and
ferre
countrees
wyth
greate
deuocyon
to
visyte
that
chapell
that
was
made
on
the
hyll
of
Vaws
/
And
for
that
grete
concours
and
deuocyon
that
was
made
to
the
chapell
.
those
thre
kinges
dyde
make
vnder
that
hylle
a
grete
and
a
ryche
cyte
/
And
is
called
the
cyte
of
Seuyll
/
And
that
is
the
rychest
and
the
beste
cyte
of
all
Ynde
/
And
yet
vnto
this
daye
in
that
cyte
is
the
habytacyon
of
Prethyr
Iohn
that
is
lorde
of
Ynde
/
And
there
dwellyth
also
the
Patryarke
of
Ynde
.
that
is
called
Patryarke
Thomas
/
¶
And
why
the
Patriarke
of
Ynde
is
callyd
Thomas
.
and
why
the
lorde
of
Ynde
is
called
Iohn
ye
shall
here
afterwarde
/
WHanne
saynt
Thomas
the
appostle
hadde
preched
and
conuertyd
the
people
to
the
lawes
of
our
Sauyour
Cryste
Ihesu
.
thenne
he
sacred
and
made
thyse
thre
kynges
vnto
th
ordre
of
preesthode
and
afterwarde
vnto
Archebysshops
/
And
whan
they
were
put
in
this
degree
.
thenne
they
ordeyned
vnder
theim
bisshops
.
preestes
and
clerkes
to
serue
god
/
And
thenne
thyse
forsayde
thre
kynges
and
bysshops
halowed
all
the
Temples
in
that
countree
in-worshippe
&
honour
of
our
lady
.
and
casted
out
all
the
mawmettes
that
were
in
the
temples
in
that
countree
aboute
/
And
to
bisshops
&
preestes
and
Thise
thre
kynges
and
Archebysshops
gaaf
many
grete
possessions
to
mayntene
&
encrease
goddis
seruyse
/
Also
saynt
Thomas
taughte
thise
kynges
&
Archebysshops
&
other
bysshops
and
preestes
the
manere
&
the
fourme
to
saye
a
masse
.
and
enfourmyd
theim
also
of
the
wordes
that
Cryste
sayd
to
his
discyples
.
whan
he
made
his
supper
that
nyght
that
he
was
betrayed
.
thrugh
whiche
wordes
he
made
&
ordeyned
the
Sacrament
of
the
awter
/
And
also
he
taughte
theym
the
Pater
noster
&
many
other
thynges
he
tolde
theim
/
Also
the
fourme
of
crystnynge
&
specyally
charged
theim
that
they
sholde
not
forgete
that
And
whan
saynt
Thomas
had
enfourmyd
theym
thus
of
the
Crysten
fayth
.
thenne
afterwarde
he
toke
martyrdom
for
the
lawe
of
Cryste
.
as
it
is
conteyned
more
fully
in
the
story
that
is
wreten
of
his
passion
/
There
it
tellyth
how
he
was
slayne
&
in
what
place
/
But
sothly
in
all
that
countree
abowte
there
saynt
Thomas
was
slayn
bothe
men
&
wymmen
haue
vysages
shapen
after
houndes
.
but
they
ben
not
heery
.
and
soo
they
ben
yet
vnto
this
daye
/
AFter
the
dethe
of
saynt
Thomas
thyse
thre
kynges
Archebisshops
yede
abowte
citees
&
townes
&
other
dyuers
places
and
ordeyned
many
chyrches
and
putte
in
theim
bysshops
preestes
&
clerkes
&
other
mynysters
of
holy
chyrche
to
do
diuine
seruyte
/
And
moche
rychesse
&
grete
possessyons
And
thenne
the
thre
kynges
Arch̄bisshops
forsoke
the
vanyte
of
the
worlde
.
and
ordeyned
theym
to
abyde
in
the
cyte
of
Seuyll
.
the
whyche
they
had
doo
buylde
/
And
they
assygned
certayne
lordes
to
gouerne
&
rule
theyr
kyngdoms
&
londes
bothe
in
spyritualtie
&
temporalte
/
And
all
people
of
grete
loue
&
charyte
were
obedyent
to
theim
.
as
the
sone
to
the
fader
/
Thenne
the
seconde
yere
tofore
theyr
dethe
thyse
thre
kynges
&
Archebysshops
made
a
Conuocacion
of
all
the
people
bothe
spyrytuall
and
temporall
/
And
had
theym
all
to
a
certayne
place
/
And
they
warnyd
&
counseyled
the
people
that
they
sholde
be
perseueraunt
in
the
crysten
fayth
as
saynt
Thomas
had
taught
theim
And
counseyled
the
people
that
they
sholde
be
all
of
one
acorde
and
of
one
wyll
to
chose
a
man
amonge
theim
that
were
able
and
discrete
that
had
loue
and
desyre
to
mayntene
the
fayth
of
Crystendom
.
And
that
man
sholde
be
cheyf
tofore
alle
other
men
.
as
in
spirytualte
in
saynt
Thomas
stede
/
And
to
hym
all
manere
of
men
shall
obeye
as
to
theyr
ghostly
fader
Whiche
man
in
worshyp
of
saynt
Thomas
th
apostle
sholde
be
called
the
Patriarke
Thomas
for
euer
lastyng
memory
/
And
whan
the
Patriarke
were
de
de
thenne
they
sholde
come
togyder
all
in
one
place
&
in
his
stede
chese
another
.
to
whom
as
it
is
aforsayd
they
sholde
obeye
as
to
theyr
ghostly
fader
/
Thenne
whan
this
matere
was
thus-spoke
amonge
the
people
they
assented
therto
.
And
of
one
accorde
&
wyll
they
chose
a
man
that
was
called
Iacob
.
the
whyche
was
come
out
of
the
countree
of
Anchioche
.
and
he
had
alway
folowed
saynt
Thomas
the
appostle
into
Ynde
/
And
this
Iacob
the
people
chose
and
toke
hym
for
theyr
Patriarke
/
And
chaunged
his
name
and
callyd
hym
Thomas
/
And
this
man
Iacob
was
the
firste
Patriarke
that
was
in
that
countree
/
And
soo
alwaye
they
of
Ynde
be
obedient
to
the
Patryarke
Thomas
as
we
ben
to
the
Pope
of
Rome
yet
vnto
thyse
dayes
/
And
to
this
Patriarke
and
so
al
his
successours
thyse
thre
kinges
gaaf
for
euermore
wych
the
assente
of
alle
the
people
the
Tythes
of
all
theyr
londes
and
kyngdoms
/
Whan
all
this
was
done
and
the
Patryarke
Thomas
thenne
chosen
to
be
lorde
of
all
the
people
in
spirytualte
/
Thenne
thise
iij.
kinges
Archebysshops
&
other
bisshops
of
comin
assente
of
all
the
people
chose
a nother
man
the
was
discrete
to
be
lorde
&
gouernour
of
al
the
people
in
temporalte
/
And
for
this
cause
.
that
yf
ony
man
wolde
ryse
or
tempte
ayenst
the
Patriarke
Thomas
or
ayenst
the
lawe
of
god
.
yf
so
were
that
the
Patriarke
might
not
rule
him
by
the
spirytuall
lawe
.
then
shold
this
lord
of
temporall
lawe
chastise
him
by
his
power
/
So
this
lorde
sholde
not
be
called
a
kynge
or
emperour
.
but
he
sholde
be
callyd
Prethir
Iohn
/
And
the
cause
is
this
For
the
thre
kynges
were
preestes
and
of
theyr
possessyons
they
made
hym
lorde
/
For
there
is
noo
degree
so
highe
as
presthode
is
in
all
the
worlde
.
nor
so
worthy
/
Also
he
is
callyd
Prethyr
Iohn
in
worshyp̄
of
saynt
Iohn
the
Euangelyste
that
was
a
preest
.
the
moost
specyall
chosen
and
loued
of
god
almyghty
/
¶
Whan
all
this
was
done
thyse
thre
kynges
assygned
the
Patriarke
Thomas
&
Prethyr
Iohn
th
one
to
be
cheyf
gouernour
in
spyrytualtie
.
and
the
other
cheyf
lorde
in
temporalte
for
euer
more
/
And
soo
thise
same
lordes
&
gouernours
of
Ynde
ben
called
vnto
thyse
dayes
/
WHan
all
thynge
was
thus
dysposed
&
ordeyned
by
thise
.iij.
worthy
kinges
.
thenne
they
went
in
to
the
cyte
of
Seuyll
forsayd
.
and
there
they
lyued
two
yeres
/
And
a
lytyll
tofore
the
feest
of
the
Natyuyte
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
there
apperyd
a
wonderfull
sterre
aboue
the
cyte
/
By
the
whyche
sterre
they
vnderstode
that
theyr
tyme
was
nyhe
that
thei
sholde
deye
&
passe
out
of
this
worlde
vnto
euerlastynge
Ioye
in
heuen
/
Thenne
of
one
assente
they
ordeyned
a
large
&
a
fayr
tombe
for
theyr
sepulture
in
the
same
chyrche
that
they
had
doo
make
in
that
cyte
/
And
in
the
feest
of
Crystmas
thise
kinges
&
Archebysshops
dyde
solempnely
goddys
seruyse
.
so
in
the
feest
of
the
Circumsicion
.
Melchior
kynge
of
Arabie
&
of
Nubie
sayd
his
masse
solemply
in
the
chirche
/
And
whan
he
had
sayd
masse
tofore
all
the
people
he
layed
hym
downe
.
and
wythout
ony
dysese
or
heuynesse
he
yelde
vp
his
spiryte
to
the
fader
of
heuen
And
soo
deyed
in
the
yere
of
his
aege
.
c.
and
.xvi.
THenne
came
those
two
other
kynges
&
toke
vp
his
body
&
arayed
it
in
bysshops
clothes
and
wyth
kynges
ornamentes
&
bare
hym
to
his
tombe
/
And
thenne
in
the
feest
of
the
Epiphanye
Bathazar
king
of
Godolie
&
of
Saba
sayd
deuoutly
his
masse
&
whan
he
had
done
.
wythout
greuaunce
of
dysese
or
syknesse
.
as
the
wyll
of
god
was
he
deyed
&
passed
to
god
in
the
yere
of
his
aege
.
c.
&
xvi
.
Thenne
Iasper
the
thyrde
kyng
toke
vp
his
body
&
arayed
it
as
the
fyrste
Kynges
body
was
.
and
wyth
grete
solempnyte
layed
&
buryed
it
in
the
tombe
by
Melchiors
body
/
The
sixte
daye
after
this
Iasper
kynge
of
Taars
&
of
thyle
of
Egriswill
.
whan
he
also
wyth
solempnyte
&
grete
deuocyon
sayd
his
masse
.
thenne
Cryste
toke
his
spiryte
to
hym
&
to
his
blysse
/
And
thenne
came
other
Bysshops
&
preestes
with
moche
people
&
toke
his
body
&
arayed
it
worthyly
as
the
other
kynges
bodyes
were
.
&
bare
it
to
the
tombe
there
thother
kinges
laye
.
And
Cryst
shewed
there
this
wonder
tofore
all
the
people
/
¶
Whan
the
body
of
the
thirde
kynge
was
thenne
broughte
and
sholde
be
buryed
&
layed
in
the
same
tombe
bytwene
the
other
kinges
.
anone
eche
of
the
other
two
kinges
departed
asonder
&
yaue
place
to
theyr
thyrde
felowe
.
&
so
receyued
hym
to
lye
in
the
mydyll
betwix
theim
both
/
And
so
it
may
be
sayd
of
thise
thre
kinges
as
it
is
radde
in
holy
wrytte
(
Gliosi
principes
terre
qm̄o
in
vita
sua
dilexerunt
se
isa
&
in
morte
non
sunt
seperati
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
say
/
As
thise
gloryous
kinges
&
Archebisshops
loued
togyder
in
theyr
lyfe
.
right
lo
they
ben
not
departed
in
theyr
dethe
/
And
that
sterre
that
apperyd
ouer
the
cyte
tofore
theyr
dethe
abode
alwaye
styll
tyll
theyr
bodyes
were
translated
vnto
Colayne
as
men
of
Ynde
saye
/
LOnge
after
the
dethe
of
thyse
thre
kynges
.
whan
Crysten
faythe
stode
in
prosperyte
in
the
worshypfull
cyte
of
Seuyll
&
in
alle
the
kyngdoms
of
the
Eest
.
thenne
the
deuyll
that
of
all
goodnes
&
vertues
is
dystroyer
thrugh
his
wyckydnesse
.
excyted
&
broughte
vp
amonge
the
people
dyuers
oppynyons
of
heresie
/
And
the
persecucyon
of
he
resye
gretly
encreased
in
dyuers
londes
abowte
.
&
also
in
the
cyte
of
Ceuyll
that
thyse
thre
kynges
rested
in
.
In
so
moche
that
Prethir
Iohn
and
Patriarke
Thomas
myghte
not
rebuke
the
people
from
theyr
heresies
by
noo
spirytuall
correccyon
nor
temporall
.
And
soo
the
people
tornyd
agayne
to
theyr
olde
lawe
and
wretchyd
fals
mawmettes
&
fals
goddys
/
And
forsoke
the
lawes
of
god
in
somoche
that
thyse
thre
kynges
bodies
were
had
at
noo
reuerence
.
but
almoste
forgoten
of
the
people
/
And
soo
the
people
that
enhabyted
in
the
cyte
of
Seuyll
that
were
come
out
of
the
londes
&
kyngdoms
of
thyse
thre
kynges
.
euery
party
toke
his
kynges
bodi
out
of
the
tombe
.
and
closed
theim
in
dyuers
chestes
honestly
.
eche
by
hymself
and
bare
them
home
in
to
theyr
owne
londes
&
kyngedoms
/
And
wyth
grete
worshyp
euery
londe
veceyued
the
body
of
theyr
kynge
.
and
there
they
abode
longe
tyme
after
/
Whan
this
gloryous
Emperour
Constantyn
thorugh
the
grace
of
god
&
dyuers
myracles
was
conuerted
to
Cryste
by
saynt
Siluester
and
he
was
made
clene
of
his
leprehede
&
was
chaunged
both
in
lyfe
&
in
maners
in
to
a
newe
man
.
that
is
to
saye
in
to
the
lawe
of
Cryste
/
And
the
same
tyme
saynt
Elyne
whiche
was
moder
of
Constantyn
the
emperour
aforsayd
was
dwellynge
amonge
the
Iewes
/
And
she
was
al
enfecte
&
defoylled
wyth
the
Iewes
lawes
and
with
theyr
byleue
/
But
wonderfully
she
was
conuerted
to
the
lawes
of
Cryste
.
as
it
is
wreten
in
the
story
of
her
lyffe
&
of
the
fyndynge
of
the
holy
Crosse
it
is
more
playnly
shewed
/
And
fro
thensforth
that
blessyd
saynt
Elyne
of
as
mighty
streyngth
as
she
was
fyrst
in
the
Iewes
lawe
occupieng
&
drawyng
to
it
.
somoche
more
besily
she
brenned
afterwarde
in
the
newe
lawe
and
gospel
of
Cryst
Ihesu
/
And
al
the
holy
places
that
our
lorde
halowed
there
&
in
other
parties
〈◊〉
his
manhede
as
she
had
defoylled
by
counseyle
of
the
Iewes
.
she
afterwarde
to
the
laude
of
our
lorde
I●esu
deuoutly
visyted
.
honoured
and
enlarged
rychely
wyth
grete
yefces
to
the
confucion
of
the
Iewes
/
Wherfore
afterwarde
by
myracle
whan
saynt
Eleyne
had
founde
the
crosse
&
naylles
by
the
wyll
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
.
thenne
vpon
that
same
place
&
vpon
the
mount
of
Caluarie
&
vpon
the
sepulture
of
Cryste
.
and
the
place
that
Cryste
apperyd
to
Mary
Mawdeleyne
in
lyknesse
of
a
gardyner
.
alle
thise
places
&
many
other
that
were
holy
the
quene
saynt
Eleyne
buylded
chyrches
on
/
And
made
ryall
&
worshypfull
chyrches
aboue
alle
those
places
.
&
also
she
yede
in
that
place
where
th
angell
apperyd
to
our
lady
.
&
there
th
angell
apperyd
to
the
shepeherdes
that
nyght
that
god
was
borne
/
And
in
that
same
she
dyde
buylde
a
ryall
chyrche
&
namyd
it
(
Glia
in
excelsis
(
&
so
it
is
callyd
vnto
this
daye
/
And
this
chirche
was
somtyme
a
grete
Colage
of
Chanons
.
whiche
of
specyall
preuilege
began
al
the
Houres
of
the
day
with
Glia
in
excelsis
(
as
we
doo
in
this
countree
with
(
Deus
in
adiutorium
(
&
some
men
vse
that
same
yet
this
day
in
the
same
chyrche
/
Whan
saynt
Elyne
had
made
the
chirche
.
thenne
she
went
in
to
Bedleem
in
to
the
same
place
where
Cryste
was
borne
/
And
as
it
is
tolde
before
the
Iewes
of
enuye
wolde
suffre
noo
man
chylde
ne
beest
to
goo
in
to
that
place
.
for
they
helde
it
a
cursyd
place
/
And
fro
that
tyme
that
our
lady
saynt
Mary
was
goon
out
of
that
place
that
she
bare
in
her
chylde
tyll
saynt
Elyne
came
in
to
that
place
.
came
neuer
man
chylde
ne
beest
/
And
whan
saynt
Elyne
came
in
to
that
derke
place
.
she
fonde
the
same
haye
that
Cryste
was
layed
in
&
the
maynger
and
that
clothes
that
our
lorde
Ihesu
was
wrapped
in
.
&
our
ladies
smocke
/
All
thise
thynges
our
lady
had
lefte
behynde
her
whan
she
yede
out
of
that
place
in
to
Egypte
.
whyche
saynt
Elyne
founde
bothe
fayr
&
hoole
wounde
to
gyder
in
the
maynger
/
ALl
thyse
thynges
that
be
relykes
saynt
Elyne
toke
awaye
wyth
her
.
sauf
the
maynger
.
&
bare
them
in
to
Constantynople
/
And
there
wyth
grete
reuerence
&
solempnyte
she
put
theym
in
to
a
worshypful
chirche
.
that
is
called
the
chyrche
of
saynt
Sophie
/
And
therin
the
relykes
were
kepte
vnto
the
tyme
that
a
kynge
of
Fraunce
that
hight
Carolus
came
vnto
Iherusalem
.
and
there
dyde
many
grete
bataylles
ayenst
the
Sarrasins
/
And
delyured
out
of
pryson
all
the
crysten
men
that
longe
tyme
had
liued
there
/
&
whan
he
had
done
.
he
yede
home
ayen
by
Constantynople
.
&
he
sawe
al
thyse
relykes
/
And
wyth
grete
prayer
he
had
all
thyse
relykes
.
and
bare
theym
home
wyth
hym
in
to
Fraunce
.
&
putt
theym
in
a
worshypful
chyrche
that
is
callyd
our
lady
chyrche
of
Akon
/
And
there
is
our
ladyes
smocke
&
other
relykes
that
ben
worshypped
of
Crysten
men
there
vnto
this
day
/
¶
Whan
saynt
Elyne
had
made
thise
chyrches
.
thenne
she
went
in
to
the
cite
of
Nazareth
.
and
there
she
made
also
a
fayr
chyrche
/
And
ordeyned
to
theym
bysshops
.
preestes
&
clerkes
to
mayntene
therin
dyuyne
seruyse
/
And
in
the
cyte
of
Nazareth
than
gell
greted
our
lady
.
&
it
is
in
the
londe
of
Galilee
/
And
besyde
Galilee
is
an
hyll
that
is
callyd
Thabor
/
Vpon
that
hyll
our
lorde
Ihesu
Criste
transfigured
hym
tofore
thre
of
his
dyscyples
.
Peter
.
Iohn
.
&
Iamys
.
as
the
gospell
tellyth
/
And
this
hyll
is
but
lytyl
of
brede
.
but
it
is
wonder
hyghe
/
And
it
is
from
Ierusalem
thre
dayes
Iourney
&
an
half
/
And
bitwyx
Iherusalem
&
this
hyll
Thabor
was
all
the
way
the
Cryst
yede
here
in
erthe
with
his
discyples
&
preched
&
taught
and
dyde
myracles
.
&
ferder
yede
he
not
in
his
manhede
than
bytwene
thise
two
places
&
other
places
that
were
bytwene
theym
but
ryght
lytyll
of
brede
and
largenesse
/
WHan
this
quene
saynt
Elyne
had
visited
al
thise
holy
places
.
&
had
ordeyned
chirches
&
goddis
mynystres
for
to
serue
.
and
all
thynge
perfourmyd
after
her
owne
wyll
to
the
worshyp
of
god
/
Thenne
began
she
to
thynke
gretly
on
thyse
thre
kynges
that
had
worshipped
god
in
his
chyldhede
/
And
she
arayed
her
wyth
a
certayn
people
&
yede
in
to
the
londes
of
Ynde
/
Whan
she
was
there
she
dystroyed
all
the
Synagoges
&
fals
mawmettes
.
&
dyde
make
chirches
&
monasteries
/
&
ordeyned
in
them
preestes
&
clerkes
of
the
crysten
faythe
/
And
she
prechyd
the
crysted
fayth
amonge
the
people
.
the
whyche
was
taughte
by
saynt
Thomas
th
appostle
and
the
thre
kynges
.
whyche
fayth
thrugh
heresies
was
dystroyed
.
&
she
renewyd
it
thorugh
her
prechynge
/
For
all
the
people
whan
they
herde
what
myracles
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
had
wroughte
by
that
worshypfull
quene
saynt
Elyne
.
of
the
fynding
of
the
crosse
&
of
the
naylles
&
of
our
ladyes
smocke
&
of
the
haye
.
and
of
the
clothes
that
Cryste
was
wrapped
in
.
in
his
childehode
/
Thenne
they
came
to
her
&
worshipped
her
and
forsoke
their
fals
lawe
&
toke
them
to
the
lawe
of
god
as
saynt
Elyne
taughte
theym
/
And
thenne
she
began
to
enquere
of
the
relykes
of
the
thre
kynges
/
And
wyth
grete
traueylle
yede
abowte
to
haue
theym
/
Soo
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
that
euermore
is
redy
to
al
men
that
crye
to
hym
in
truthe
&
ryghtwysnes
/
As
he
shewed
to
this
holy
quene
the
crosse
&
the
naylles
that
were
hydde
depe
in
the
erthe
.
ryght
soo
he
shewed
the
bodies
of
the
thre
kinges
to
her
/
So
this
lady
had
suche
a
name
amonge
the
people
.
that
the
Patriarke
Thomas
&
Preter
Iohn
by
counsell
of
the
lordes
yaue
to
saynt
Elyne
the
.ij.
bodies
of
thyse
.ij.
kynges
.
Melchior
&
Balthazar
to
the
worshippe
of
god
&
of
the
holy
kynges
/
The
body
of
the
thyrde
kynge
Iasper
.
the
Nestorynes
had
borne
it
in
to
the
yle
of
Egriswill
/
And
by
cause
the
saynt
Elyne
wold
not
that
thise
thre
kynges
shold
be
departed
.
she
made
grete
meanes
&
grete
prayers
.
and
yaue
grete
gyftes
to
the
cheyf
lordes
of
the-yle
.
and
so
she
gate
the
thyrde
body
.
that
is
to
saye
of
Iasper
/
And
for
that
body
she
gaaf
to
theym
the
body
of
saynt
Thomas
the
appostle
whyche
she
had
that
tyme
in
her
kepynge
.
And
the
body
of
saynt
Thomas
hath
ben
twyes
boren
awaye
from
the
yle
.
&
euer
restored
ayen
for
certayn
causes
/
¶
And
crysten
men
that
haue
ben
in
the
Ile
saye
that
they
myghte
neuer
se
the
body
of
saynt
Thomas
/
For
it
is
a
comyn
prophecye
in
alle
the
countree
that
the
body
of
saynt
.
Thomas
the
apostle
shall
be
translated
to
the
cyte
of
Coleyne
&
putte
to
the
thre
kynges
/
And
in
what
manere
this
shall
be
done
thei
tell
&
saye
/
¶
In
tyme
comyng
whan
god
wyll
there
shall
be
an
archebisshop
of
Coleyne
that
shall
be
soo
wyse
&
prudent
&
soo
myghty
.
that
he
shall
make
a
contracte
of
matrimonye
bytwene
the
emperours
sone
of
Rome
&
th
emperours
doughter
of
Tartarin
/
And
wyth
this
contracte
&
frendshyp
the
holy
londe
shall
be
yelden
in
to
cristen
mennys
hondes
/
And
in
the
tyme
shall
the
body
of
saynt
Thomas
be
translated
&
born
to
Coleyne
&
layed
bi
the
thre
kynges
.
&
therfore
the
Heretykes
of
this
yle
that
ben
called
Nestorines
taken
but
lytyll
hede
of
saynt
Thomas
body
ne
doo
but
lytyll
reuerence
therto
by
cause
of
prophecye
.
¶
And
thenne
saynt
Elyne
put
the
bodyes
of
thyse
thre
kynges
togyder
in
a
cheste
/
&
arayed
it
wyth
grete
rychesse
&
thenne
brought
it
to
Constantynople
wyth
grete
Ioye
and
reuerence
/
And
layed
theim
reuerently
in
a
chyrche
that
was
callyd
saynt
Sohpie
/
and
that
same
chyrche
kynge
Constantyn
dyde
make
/
And
he
alone
wyth
a
lytyll
chylde
sette
vp
all
the
pylars
of
marbyll
of
the
same
chyrche
/
And
therin
was
somtyme
the
crowne
of
thorne
that
Cryst
was
crowned
wyth
/
And
whan
the
Turkes
&
Sarrasyns
came
downe
to
Constantynople
&
distroyed
a
grete
party
therof
.
thenne
th
emperour
sent
to
saynt
Lowes
that
was
thenne
kyng
of
Fraunce
for
socour
&
helpe
.
&
thenne
king
Lowes
came
with
strength
to
the
th
emperour
.
&
recouered
ayen
the
moost
party
of
that
londes
the
th
emperour
had
lost
/
And
for
his
labour
th
emperour
gaaf
hym
the
crowne
of
thorne
.
wherfore
the
Grekes
made
moche
sorowe
/
And
so
came
the
holy
crowne
of
thorne
in
to
Fraunce
out
of
Constantynople
.
and
the
cy●e
is
the
cheif
cyte
of
al
the
londe
of
Grece
¶
And
whan
thise
thre
knges
were
brought
vnto
Constantynople
all
the
people
of
the
countree
abowte
came
&
visyted
theym
&
wyth
grete
deuocyon
worshypped
theym
/
And
there
they
were
longe
tyme
/
AFter
the
thise
thre
worshipfull
kynges
bodies
were
brought
vnto
Constantynople
.
kynge
Constantyn
&
his
holy
moder
saynt
Elyne
deyed
/
And
ayenst
the
fayth
of
crysten
men
began
to
ryse
a
newe
heresye
.
&
also
persecucyon
of
dethe
ayenst
all
those
the
wolde
mayntene
the
crysten
faythe
&
the
lawe
of
Cryste
/
But
in
this
persecucyon
the
Grekes
though
it
were
that
they
had
many
worshipfull
doctours
&
bysshops
of
the
same
countree
of
Grece
borne
Yet
thei
forsoke
the
lawe
of
holy
chirche
&
the
fayth
and
chose
theim
a
Patriarke
by
themself
.
to
whom
they
obeye
yet
vnto
this
daye
as
we
do
to
the
pope
/
&
in
this
persecucyon
the
bodies
of
thise
thre
kinges
were
had
in
noo
reuerence
.
nor
none
of
the
other
relikes
but
vtterly
set
at
nought
/
And
the
Sarrasyns
&
Turkes
in
this
tyme
wanne
with
stronge
honde
&
batayll
the
londes
of
Grece
&
Armonye
.
&
dystroyed
a
grete
parte
of
those
londes
/
And
thenne
came
th
emperour
of
Rome
Mauricius
.
&
thrugh
him
&
the
helpe
of
theim
of
Melayne
recoueryd-all
thise
londes
agayn
¶
And
as
it
is
sayd
amonge
theym
there
in
the
countree
.
thrugh
counseyle
of
the
same
emperour
thyse
.iij
kynges
bodies
were
translate
in
to
Melayne
/
¶
Ferthermore
it
is
in
many
bokes
in
that
countree
.
that
there
was
an
emperour
of
Grece
whiche
was
called
Ginamiell
.
&
he
sent
vnto
a
relygyous
man
that
was
callyd
Gustorgius
in
to
Melayne
vpon
a
certayn
message
.
&
thenne
the
religious
man
asked
of
th
emperour
to
haue
thyse
thre
kynges
bodies
/
And
by
cause
the
emperour
loued
well
this
man
&
also
he
was
a
wyse
man
.
th
emperour
graunted
hym
the
bodyes
of
thise
kyngis
/
And
so
this
man
Gustorgius
sent
the
bodyes
to
Melane
.
&
layed
theim
there
in
a
fayre
chirche
of
frere
Prechours
wyth
grete
solempnyte
/
And
there
our
lorde
shewed
many
fayre
myracles
/
¶
And
so
at
yet
we
shal
leue
to
speke
of
the
translacyon
of
thise
holy
kynges
bodyes
&
speke
of
another
matere
in
vsage
of
the
londes
of
Ynde
/
PReter
Iohn
that
is
lorde
of
Ynde
&
of
alle
the
kynges
that
ben
vnder
hym
on
the
xij
.
daye
.
the
is
called
the
Epiphanie
.
they
araye
theym
as
kynges
sholde
with
their
crownes
on
their
hedes
&
with
ryche
ornamentes
.
so
they
go
to
theyr
temple
&
here
masse
/
&
thre
tymes
that
day
they
offre
at
masse
The
fyrste
offrynge
in
the
begynnyng
of
the
masse
the
seconde
after
the
gospell
.
&
the
thyrde
at
that
Postcomyn
of
the
masse
/
And
they
offre
golde
.
encense
.
&
myrre
.
and
that
wyth
grete
deuocyon
&
mekenes
.
and
also
other
lordes
of
lesse
degree
offre
thries
after
theyr
power
/
Ferdermore
all
other
men
of
crysten
faythe
that
ben
diuyded
in
dyuers
partyes
&
sectes
.
&
holde
dyuers
opinyons
of
heresies
.
as
Nubiani
.
Soldani
.
nestorini
.
Indi
.
Grecy
.
Simani
.
Ifymum
Nycholaite
&
Mandopoly
.
of
thise
eche
party
hath
a
deuocyon
to
the
thre
kynges
&
to
the
feest
of
the
Epyphanie
.
as
ye
maye
here
afterwarde
/
But
fyrste
or
we
procede
ony
ferther
we
shall
speke
of
the
thre
kynges
bodies
lefte
at
Melayne
/
THenne
after
by
processe
of
tyme
the
cyte
of
Melane
beganne
to
rebell
agaynst
the
Emperour
theyr
souereyne
lorde
.
whyche
emperour
was
called
Fredericus
/
And
this
emperour
sent
to
the
bisshop
of
Loleyne
that
was
called
Reynolde
for
helpe
of
dyuers
lordes
of
the
londe
.
for
dyuers
lordes
that
were
his
enmyes
toke
the
cyte
of
Melane
&
distroyed
a
grete
parte
therof
/
And
in
that
tyme
the
grete
men
of
the
cyte
toke
the
bodyes
of
thyse
thre
kynges
&
hydde
them
preuely
in
the
erthe
/
Amonge
al
other
there
was
a
lorde
in
that
cyte
that
highte
Asso
.
&
th
emperour
hated
this
Asso
more
than
al
the
people
of
that
cyte
/
And
so
it
happed
that
in
the
dystruccion
of
the
cyte
the
Archebisshop
of
Colayn
wan
this
lordis
place
thorugh
strong
honde
.
&
laye
therin
a
grete
whyle
/
And
this
Asso
was
take
and
put
in
prison
/
Thenne
this
Asso
sent
preuely
by
the
kepers
of
the
prison
to
th
archebysshop
of
Coleyne
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
come
&
speke
wyth
hym
/
And
soo
whan
he
was
come
before
th
archebysshop
he
promysed
him
yf
he
myghte
&
wolde
gete
hym
grace
of
th
emperour
&
his
loue
&
lordshyp
.
he
wolde
yeue
him
the
bodyes
of
the
thre
kynges
/
And
whan
the
bysshop
herde
this
anone
he
yede
to
th
emperour
&
prayed
for
him
.
and
gate
hym
grace
&
good
loue
of
the
emperour
/
Whan
this
was
done
this
lorde
Asso
brought
preuely
the
bodyes
of
the
thre
kynges
to
th
archebisshop
of
Colayn
/
And
then
the
Archebysshop
sente
preuely
thyse
thre
bodyes
by
his
preuy
meyne
a
grete
waye
out
of
Melayne
/
And
thenne
he
yede
to
the
Emperour
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
graunt
hym
the
bodyes
of
the
thre
kynges
/
&
th
emperour
graunted
theim
to
him
/
And
thenne
the
Archebysshop
openly
wyth
grete
processyon
&
solemnyte
brought
thise
holy
sayntes
in
to
Coleyne
.
&
there
layed
theym
in
a
fayr
chyrche
of
saynt
Peter
worshypfully
/
And
all
the
people
of
the
countree
with
all
reuerence
that
they
myght
receyued
thyse
holy
relykes
/
there
they
ben
worshypped
of
all
manere
of
nacyons
vnto
this
daye
/
And
thus
endyth
the
translacyon
of
thyse
thre
kynges
.
melchior
.
balthazar
.
&
Iasper
/
NOw
to
speke
of
th
usages
in
Ynde
that
we
haue
begon
before
aswell
of
Crysten
as
Heretykes
&
Sysmatykes
.
eche
of
theym
both
religyous
&
seculars
fasten
on
Crystmas
daye
vnto
it
be
nyght
/
And
eche
man
spredyth
his
table
&
settith
on
it
asmoche
meete
&
drynke
as
may
suffyse
for
his
lyuynge
fro
Cristmas
daye
tyll
the
.xij.
daye
/
And
so
of
the
that
is
sett
on
the
borde
they
ete
&
drynke
with
theyr
wyues
.
chyldern
&
meyne
wyth
all
Ioye
&
myrthe
the
they
can
in
that
tyme
/
Also
they
lyghte
a
candell
or
a
lampe
.
&
that
shall
brenne
bothe
nyghte
&
daye
fro
Crystmas
nyght
vnto
the
.xij.
nyghte
besyde
the
same
borde
/
And
in
the
Vigill
of
the
Epiphanie
at
nyght
euery
frende
gooth
to
others
hous
/
&
whan
he
cometh
to
the
door
he
sayth
(
Bona
dies
)
that
is
to
saye
Good
daye
/
For
yf
he
sayd
(
Bona
nox
)
that
is
to
saye
Good
nyght
.
thenne
wolde
he
accuse
him
tofore
the
Iustise
of
the
lawe
as
he
had
done
to
hym
a
grete
trespaas
/
And
so
they
wake
all
the
nyght
&
goo
fro
hous
to
hous
.
and
ete
.
drinke
&
daunce
.
and
bere
candelles
lyght
in
theyr
hondes
.
in
tokenynge
that
the
sterre
apperyd
whan
Cryste
was
born
&
lad
thise
.iij.
kynges
in
thyse
dayes
to
Bedleem
.
&
there
was
no
nyght
in
this
tyme
.
but
it
was
all
one
daye
to
them
/
Also
the
xij
.
day
al
manere
Crysten
of
that
countree
of
what
secte
euer
they
ben
.
come
fro
ferre
countrees
with
their
bisshops
&
preestys
.
wyth
other
relygyous
wyth
crosses
of
syluer
&
sensers
.
&
goon
to
the
water
of
flom
Iordan
whiche
is
fro
Ihrlm
.v.
myles
/
And
whan
all
the
people
is
come
to
that
water
.
thenne
euery
secte
stondyth
togider
in
a
certain
place
by
themself
/
And
then
euery
secte
takyth
his
crosse
&
layeth
it
downe
on
the
grounde
.
&
redyth
a
gospell
euery
secte
in
his
owne
tonge
(
Cum
natus
esset
ihūs
in
bethleem
&
c̈
(
And
whan
this
gospell
is
radde
.
euery
secte
wyth
grete
deuocyon
worshippeth
his
crosse
&
offryth
therto
as
euery
man
is
of
power
/
And
this
is
done
in
tokenynge
&
mynde
of
the
thre
kynges
that
offred
yeftes
to
almyghty
god
After
this
they
goon
all
in
procession
to
the
place
where
Cryste
was
crystned
of
saynt
Iohn
Bapcyst
.
and
there
they
rede
in
latyn
the
gospel
(
In
illo
tempore
venit
ihūs
a
galilea
ad
ioh̄em
vt
baptizaret̄
ab
illo
in
iordane
in
isto
loco
&
c̈
)
that
is
to
saye
/
On
a
tyme
our
lorde
came
fro
Galilee
to
saynt
Iohn
to
be
crystened
of
saynt
Iohn
in
this
Iordan
in
this
place
/
And
whan
the
gospell
is
radde
.
they
blesse
the
water
and
wasshe
theyr
crosse
in
the
water
/
And
seke
men
and
blynde
men
goon
in
to
the
water
nakyd
.
and
wasshe
theym
.
&
after
warde
ben
heelyd
/
And
whan
this
is
done
euery
secte
goon
home
agayn
in
to
their
owne-countree
/
¶
And
bytwene
this
Iordan
&
Ihe
/
rusalem
is
a
lytyll
wyldernesse
that
is
called
Montost
.
and
therin
dwelled
saynt
Iohn
Baptist
.
and
there
he
prechyd
/
And
there
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
came
to
saynt
Iohn
to
be
crystned
of
hym
/
And
in
that
same
deserte
god
almyghty
fasted
.xl.
dayes
&
.xl.
nyghtes
/
¶
Also
bysshops
&
other
preestes
of
what
tonge
or
secte
that
they
ben
.
euery
daye
after
theyr
masse
they
saye
this
gospell
)
Cum
natus
esset
ihūs
(
as
we
in
this
countree
saye
(
In
principio
)
after
our
masse
.
But
eche
secte
sayth
in
his
owne
tonge
&
not
in
latyn
.
sauf
on
the
.xij.
daye
oonly
/
But
it
is
radde
dyuersly
ryght
as
it
was
done
/
For
in
Iherusalem
it
is
radde
thus
)
Aum
natus
esset
ihūs
in
bethleem
in
diebus
herodis
.
hic
regis
ecce
magi
venerunt
ab
oriente
hic
dicentes
(
And
in
Bedleem
and
in
al
the
dyocecyse
abowte
it
is
radde
thus
)
Aū
natus
esset
ihūs
in
diebus
herodis
hic
&
Iude
regis
&
c̈
(
Also
other
cristen
men
by
whoos
places
thyse
thre
kynges
in
theyr
goynge
out
and
comynge
home
agayn
passyd
by
/
for
a
specyall
deuocyon
that
they
haue
to
the
thre
kynges
they
redde
this
gospell
after
this
manere
of
four
me
(
Cum
natus
esset
ihūs
in
bethleem
iude
in
●ebus
herodis
regis
ecce
magi
regis
gloriosi
cum
marima
festinacione
&
excercitu
ab
oriente
venerunt
&
per
nos
transierunt
(
And
thus
all
dyuers
sectes
rede
this
gospell
as
it
was
done
amonge
theim
/
¶
Also
the
Sarrasyns
the
byleue
on
Machomites
lawe
&
Turkes
haue
thise
thre
kynges
in
specyall
reuerence
in
all
temples
of
the
countree
.
they
were
somtyme
crystned
.
&
forsoke
it
.
&
dystroyed
all
the
ymages
in
their
temples
.
&
kytte
of
theyr
noses
&
dysfygured
theym
for
dispyte
/
But
the
ymages
of
the
thre
kinges
they
suffre
alwaye
stonde
styll
wythout
ony
dispyte
/
FErdermore
towchynge
the
sectes
of
Heretykes
aforsayd
/
The
fyrst
secte
is
callyd
Nubiani
.
&
those
ben
of
the
kingdom
of
Araby
&
Nubie
.
wherof
Melchior
was
kynge
.
&
thise
ben
cristen
men
/
And
they
haue
a
specyall
prerogatyf
tofore
al
other
crysten
men
.
for
worship
of
their
kyng
/
And
the
preestes
of
the
countree
whan
they
goo
to
th
awter
haue
crownes
of
gold
or
ouergylt
on
theyr
heedes
And
the
they
doo
in
tokenynge
the
the
thre
kynges
with
crownes
on
their
heedes
offred
yeftes
to
god
almyghty
in
Bedleem
/
&
wyth
crownes
&
myters
synge
theyr
masses
/
There
is
also
a nother
secte
that
is
called
Soldini
.
and
they
ben
of
the
kingdom
of
Godolie
&
Saba
there
Balthazar
was
kynge
/
They
were
a
party
corrupte
in
the
fayth
.
&
they
toke
theyr
names
of
an
Heretyke
that
was
called
Solodinis
/
But
thise
men
ben
not
holde
in
soo
grete
reuerence
as
the
Nubiani
.
for
they
kepe
not
the
fayth
soo
truly
as
they
done
/
And
their
preestis
whan
they
goo
to
masse
they
beere
golde
in
theyr
hondes
to
the
awter
.
&
the
deaken
be
cryth
ensence
&
the
subdeaken
myrre
/
And
this
they
beere
in
tokenynge
of
the
thre
kynges
that
offred
to
oure
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
god
almighty
in
his
byrth
.
golde
.
myrre
&
ensence
/
Also
there
is
a nother
secte
that
is
of
the
kyngdom
of
Taars
&
of
thyle
of
Egriswill
there
as
Iasper
was
kynge
.
&
they
ben
called
Nestorini
/
And
they
ben
the
worste
&
the
cursedest
Heretykes
of
the
worlde
.
&
for
the
moost
party
they
ben
blacke
Ethyopies
/
And
al
men
of
other
sectes
hate
theim
gretly
/
And
whan
the
preestis
goo
to
synge
masse
.
they
curse
all
men
that
were
of
counseylle
.
or
helpynge
to
doo
awaye
the
body
of
Iasper
that
was
theyr
kynge
/
¶
Ferdermore
thise
Nestorines
forsoke
Preter
Iohn
&
Thomas
theyr
Patriarke
&
were
rebell
ayenst
theym
&
ayenst
the
lawes
of
holy
chyrche
/
Soo
afterwarde
as
the
wyll
of
god
was
on
a
tyme
there
dide
aryse
in
the
same
londe
a
grete
multytude
of
people
.
as
of
shepeherdes
&
laborers
&
bonde
men
ayenst
theyr
owne
nacyons
.
the
whyche
callyd
themself
Tartarines
.
&
they
made
a
Smythe
theyr
capytayne
&
cheyf-lorde
/
And
so
thorugh
stronge
power
they
dystroyed
al
the
kyngdom
&
londes
of
Nestorines
.
&
slewe
all
the
people
wyth
out
ony
mercy
as
the
wyll
of
god
was
/
And
toke
castelles
.
cytees
&
grete
townes
&
all
theyr
goodes
/
And
whan
the
Tartarynes
had
thus
conquered
the
londes
&
kyngdoms
of
the
Nestorines
.
thenne
the
Nestorines
yede
to
Preter
Iohn
&
promysed
hym
that
they
wolde
torne
ayen
to
theyr
fyrst
lawe
&
fayth
of
god
&
be
trybutory
to
hym
so
the
he
wold
helpe
them
/
And
thenne
Preter
Iohn
was
in
good
wyll
to
helpe
theim
The
next
night
as
Preter
Iohn
laye
in
his
bedde
&
slepte
the
thre
kynges
apperyd
to
hym
.
&
spake
to
him
&
charged
hym
the
he
sholde
not
in
noo
manere
helpe
ne
socour
the
Nestorines
.
for
it
is
goddys
wyll
that
thei
sholde
vtterly
be
distroyed
for
theyr
wyckydnes
and
malyce
/
And
whan
the
Nestorines
herde
tell
that
Preter
Iohn
had
suche
a
vysion
of
the
thre
kynges
.
they
yede
abowte
to
the
grete
lordes
that
were
abowte
Preter
Iohn
&
yaue
theim
grete
yeftes
to
speke
to
theyr
lorde
the
they
myght
haue
helpe
of
hym
/
And
thenne
dyuers
lordes
counseyled
Preter
Iohn
to
take
noo
heede
of
dremes
nor
of
suche
vysions
.
but
to
holde
his
purpoos
&
promyse
.
&
to
helpe
thise
Nestorines
/
And
thenne
Preter
Iohn
assented
to
theyr
counsell
&
sence
his
eldest
sone
Dauid
wyth
a
stronge
oost
in
helpyng
of
the
Nestorines
/
And
whan
thyse
two
hostes
mette
togyder
the
Tartarines
had
the
vyctory
.
and
slewe
Dauid
&
all
his
oost
.
soo
that
there
ascaped
none
alyue
/
And
also
they
dystroyed
many
londes
.
cytees
&
castelles
that
were
longynge
to
Preter
Iohn
/
And
whan
preter
Iohn
herde
therof
thenne
he
was
sory
therfore
that
he
dide
ayenst
the
commaundment
of
the
thre
kynges
that
apperyd
to
hym
in
his
slepe
/
And
thenne
with
grete
sorowe
of
herte
he
asked
god
mercy
&
foryeuenes
.
and
the
thre
kynges
he
prayed
of
grace
&
helpe
/
Thenne
on
a
tyme
the
thre
kynges
appered
to
th
emperour
of
Tartaryn
as
he
lay
in
his
bed
and
charged
hym
that
he
sholde
doo
nomore
harme
to
Preter
Iohn
/
And
badde
he
shold
sende
to
hym
and
make
a
fynall
peas
wyth
hym
for
euermore
.
but
the
londes
&
castelles
the
th
emperour
had
wonne
of
Preter
Iohn
to
kepe
theym
styll
to
hymself
.
for
by
cause
Preter
Iohn
was
inobedyent
to
our
commaundment
/
Thenne
th
emperour
anone
though
he
were
a
Paynym
.
yet
he
was
sore
adradde
of
his
visyon
/
Anone
he
sente
messagers
to
Preter
Iohn
&
made
a
fynall
peas
betwene
theym
for
euer
more
In
somoche
that
the
eldest
sone
of
thyse
two
lordes
sholde
wedde
the
tothers
doughter
euer
more
after
to
the
worldes
ende
&
soo
it
is
yet
contynued
unto
this
daye
/
¶
So
afterwarde
this
emperour
enqueryd
of
the
thre
kinges
&
of
theyr
lyues
&
dedes
/
Thenne
in
mynde
&
in
worshyppe
of
theym
th
emperour
ordeyned
that
his
fyrst
sone
&
al
the
chyldren
of
his
successours
sholde
beere
the
names
of
thyse
thre
kynges
for
euermore
after
/
And
thus
the
Nestorines
were
dystroyed
&
put
oute
of
theyr
londes
&
kyngdoms
/
And
after
warde
were
fugytyf
and
dwellynge
abowte
in
dyuers
countrees
alwaye
vnder
trybute
.
as
Iewes
&
other
nacyons
that
ben
alway
dwellynge
vnder
trybute
/
But
yet
some
of
theym
dwelle
in
thyle
of
Egriswyll
.
&
paye
therfore
euery
yere
grete
trybute
/
Also
there
is
a nother
secte
that
is
callyd
Indy
.
and
they
ben
of
Preter
Ioh̄ns
londe
.
&
they
ben
good
cristen
men
/
Add
the
preestis
of
that
londe
whan
they
goo
to
masse
they
hange
a
crowne
of
golde
on
the
awter
And
the
preest
.
deaken
&
subdeaken
mete
togider
in
thre
partyes
.
&
soo
they
goo
to
the
awter
/
And
thys
they
doo
in
tokenynge
of
the
thre
kinges
that
mette
sodenly
togider
in
an
hye
waye
.
whiche
was
departed
in
thre
wayes
/
&
so
thrugh
ledynge
of
the
sterre
they
yede
vnto
Bedleem
&
offred
yeftes
to
god
almyghty
the
twelfthe
daye
after
his
byrthe
/
There
is
also
a nother
secte
whiche
is
called
Grecij
&
there
preestes
haue
wyues
/
And
they
byleue
on
the
fader
&
on
the
sone
.
but
not
in
the
holy
ghost
/
&
also
they
byleue
&
saye
there
is
no
purgatory
/
And
whan
they
synge
masse
they
kytte
a
pece
of
breede
.
&
that
is
made
four
square
/
And
this
breede
they
putte
in
a
dissh̄
of
golde
or
of
syluer
.
&
aboue
that
they
lay
a
sterre
&
that
is
couered
with
a
fayr
whyte
clothe
/
And
at
the
Offetory
of
the
masse
they
take
the
dissh̄
wyth
thost
&
with
the
sterre
&
sette
it
aboue
on
their
heedes
.
&
so
wyth
sencers
and
candelles
they
goo
abowte
the
chyrche
wyth
grete
worshyppe
&
reuerence
.
and
soo
ayen
to
the
awter
/
And
thenne
all
the
people
fallen
downe
to
the
grounde
&
doon
grete
worship
to
the
sacrefyse
/
And
thus
they
doo
in
tokenyng
of
the
thre
kynges
that
sought
god
almyghty
in
Bedleem
.
and
offryd
to
him
ryche
yeftes
.
&
thrugh
ledyng
of
a
stere
came
to
the
maynger
there
Cryst
laye
/
And
there
they
fell
downe
&
worshyped
hym
/
Also
there
is
another
manere
of
secte
.
whiche
is
called
Simiani
/
&
they
ben
men
of
Yndore
.
for
that
londe
aboute
Ihrlm
.
whiche
of
olde
tyme
was
called
Pude
is
now
callyd
Symis
/
But
thise
men
haue
but
lityl
of
heresye
amonge
theym
/
&
they
doo
grete
worshyp
to
saynt
Barbara
.
&
watche
all
her
nyghte
.
as
men
doo
in
this
countree
on
Mydsomer
nighte
/
And
soo
thenne
euery
frende
gooth
to
other
and
bereth
aboute-dyuers
seedes
whyche
shall
be
sowen
in
gardynes
¶
And
thise
men
whan
they
shall
swere
afore
Iustices
for
ony
cause
.
thenne
they
swere
by
the
gospell
.
and
by
the
thre
kynges
/
And
that
they
done
in
tokenyng
of
the
thre
kynges
that
sought
god
in
the
londe
of
Iewes
/
There
is
also
a nother
secte
whiche
is
called
Maronice
.
and
they
dwelle
in
dyuers
londes
aboute
/
And
theyr
preestes
&
theyr
Deakens
and
theyr
Subdeakens
haue
wyues
/
And
they
saye
noo
masse
in
all
the
yere
but
at
the
feest
of
Crystmas
&
Ester
/
And
they
saye
masse
of
saynt
Thomas
the
appostle
&
of
the
thre
kynges
/
And
this
they
vse
yet
vnto
this
daye
/
Also
there
is
a nother
secte
whiche
is
called
Ysimij
/
And
whan
the
preestes
goo
to
masse
.
they
blysse
the
people
.
and
prayed
god
rule
theym
&
lede
theym
.
as
he
ledde
the
thre
kynges
by
a
sterre
in
to
Bedleem
to
doo
hym
worshyppe
/
Also
there
is
another
secte
that
is
called
Maronij
/
And
thise
men
whan
they
begyn
ony
thynge
.
thenne
they
saye
in
the
name
of
god
&
the
thre
kynges
/
Also
there
is
a nother
secte
that
is
called
Nicholaite
And
those
men
vse
to
gyue
euery
daye
thre
manere
of
almesse
in
the
worshyppe
of
god
&
the
thre
kynges
to
poore
men
there
abowte
/
A nother
there
is
.
and
they
ben
called
Mandopoles
And
they
holde
noo
specyall
fayth
.
they
are
in
heresye
.
ne
they
haue
noo
preestes
amonge
theym
/
And
ones
in
the
yere
they
gone
togyder
in
procession
to
the
chyrche
fastynge
/
And
that
shall
be
on
a
Sonday
.
&
there
they
woll
here
masse
in
the
worshyp
of
god
&
the
thre
kynges
/
And
all
those
dyuerse
sectes
&
other
crysten
men
haue
many
other
specyall
deuocyons
to
thyse
thre
worshipfull
kynges
.
whiche
were
longe
to
telle
/
And
in
all
the
countrees
of
Ynde
&
in
the
Eest
and
in
al
the
londes
and
kyngdoms
there
thyse
thre
kynges
were
lordes
all
manere
of
people
haue
thyle
thre
kynges
in
reuerence
moche
more
than
men
haue
in
this
countre
/
¶
And
our
lord
Ihesu
Cryst
shewyth
many
myracles
abowte
in
dyuers
places
in
the
Eest
thrugh
the
merytes
&
prayers
of
thise
worshipfull
kinges
.
whiche
thre
kynges
now
regne
in
eternall
blysse
in
heuen
/
To
whiche
blysse
by
the
merytes
&
Intercessions
of
those
thre
blessyd
kynges
.
he
the
sytteth
aboue
all
sayntes
brynge
vs
all
/
AMEN