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Blessed be ye LORDE God of Israel, for he hath vysited and redemed his people.

And hath set vp an horne of saluacion in the house of his seruaunt Dauid.

Euen as he promysed afore tyme, by the mouth of his holy prophetes.

And yt he wolde shewe mercy vnto oure fathers, & thynke vpo his holy couenaut.

And thou childe shalt be called a prophet of the Hyest: for thou shalt go before ye LORDE, to prepare his wayes.

And to geue knowlege of saluacion vnto his people, for the remyssion of their synnes.

And they wente all, euery one to his owne cite to be taxed.

that he might be taxed wt Mary his spoused wife, which was wt childe.

And whan eight dayes were ended, that the childe shulde be circumcysed, his name was called Iesus, which was named of ye angell, before he was conceaued in his mothers wombe.

then toke he him vp in his armes, and praysed God, and sayde:

And his father and mother marueyled at the thinges that were spoke of him.

And Symeon blessed them, and sayde vnto Mary his mother: Beholde, this (childe) shalbe set to a fall, and to an vprysinge agayne of many in Israel, and for a token, which shalbe spoke agaynst.

And his elders wente to Ierusalem euery yeare at the feast of Easter.

And whan they had fulfilled the dayes, and were gone home agayne, the childe Iesus abode styll at Ierusalem.And his elders knewe it not,

And all they that herde him, wodred at his vnderstondynge and answeres.

And whan they sawe him, they were astonnyed. And his mother sayde vnto him: My sonne, why hast thou done this vnto vs? Beholde, thy father and I haue sought the sorowynge.

And he wente downe with the, and came to Nazareth, and was obediet vnto them. And his mother kepte all these wordes in hir hert.

In the fiftenth yeare of the raigne of Tiberius the Emperoure, wha Pontius Pilate was leftenaut in Iewry and Herode one of the foure princes in Galile, and his brother Philippe one of the foure prynces in Iturea, & in the coastes of Traconites, and Lysanias one of the foure princes of Abilene,

As it is wrytte in ye boke of ye sayenges of Esaye the prophet, which sayeth: The voyce of a cryer in the wyldernes: prepare the waye of the LORDE, and make his pathes straight.

Whose fanne is in his hande, and he shal pourge his floore, and shal gather ye wheate in to his barne, and shal burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fyre.