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[The lyfe of the thre kynges of Coleyne]; Historia trium regum. English
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Joannes, of Hildesheim, d. 1375.
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1496
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STC 5572; ESTC S109805
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al the people in teÌ„poralte / 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 thenÌ„ shold this lord of teÌ„porall lawe chastise him by his power / So this lorde sholde not be called a kynge or emperour but he sholde be callyd Prethir IohÌ„n / 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 IohÌ„n in worshypÌ„ of saynt IohÌ„n 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 IohÌ„n 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 CircumsicoÌ„n 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 qmÌ„o 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 persecucoÌ„n 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 en habyted 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 Iâ—esu deuoutly visyted honoured and enlarged rychely wyth grete yefces to the confucoÌ„n 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 thangell apperyd to our lady
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 thoxe thasse 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 thaÌ„t 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 ke pe theyr shepe twyes in oo 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 coÌ„maundment 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 theÌ„perour Romayns so that the prophecie of daniel shold be fulfylled in the tymeÌ„ of the byrthe of Cryste whan he sayd CuÌ„ venerit sanctus sactoÌ„rum c̈ as it is aforsayde / Yet the Iewes contynuynge in theyr malyce falsnesse sayde that longe tyme after the Natiuite of Cryste their vnccoÌ„n 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 ceptruÌ„ de iuda nec dux de femore cius doner veniat qui mittendê° est et ipÌ„e erit expectacoÌ„ genciuÌ„ 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 vnccoÌ„n 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 expectacoÌ„ genciuÌ„ dominator eorum ite ad inquirendum euÌ„ adoranduÌ„ 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 worshyppÌ„ / 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