[BUCH HI.]
AI.BOX UND AMPHABEL.
191
After that Christ had take our nature
humayne,
The.XIIII.yere of the Brittisshekynge
Graciane,
In the III. yere of the fyrst Anasta-
cious,
159° And the XVI. yere of themperour
Theodosius.
Foure hundred and forty | of our
lorde.IX.yeresmo,
And in the fyrst yere of Vortigern
the kynge,
And the fyfte yere of the fyrst pope
Leo,
Theodose the seconde emperour than
beinge
l M5 In his. XXL yere after iust rekenynge,
SayntGermayn come fyrst, and lupus
also,
To distroye theresies [ that were be-
gon tho;
C.XLIII.yeres by iuste computation
After his passion | thus come saynt
Germayn,
1600 And forty and two yerewithoutvaria-
tion
After the fyrst tyme of the fake pela
gian.
Yet within fyue yeres saynt Germayn
come agayn,
As is shewed before, | with holy
Seuerus,
All former heresies by grace to discus.
l6o s CCC.XLI1I. yeres after saynt Ger-
mayne,
Whiche was seuen hundreth LXXX.
& XIII. yere
Of our lorde Jesu, | as stories doth
determyne,
That thangell at Bath | to kyng Offa
dyd appere
To translate saynt Albon | with all
heuenly chere;
1610 The fyrst Adrian pope, | the VI. Con
stantine theperour,
Whä this translation was done with
all honour. —
Pcrceyuenowe, good reders, &gyue
true iugemet
Betwene the monkes of Colen | & of
blessed Albon!
The Coloners wryteth after theyr
entent,
•615 To cause the pylgryms to w/V/idrawe
theyr deuotion
From Verolamy | & to folowe theyr
affection,
Sayinge that they haue the very body,
To theyr shame and rebuke | defen-
dyng suche foly.
And to proue theyr intent, [ play-
nely they say
1620 That these heresyes of false pela-
giane
Began in the reigne of noble kynke
Offa
And also in the tyme of pope Adrian;
Affyrmyng that than shuld come-in
Germayne
And with hym Lupus, ] a clerke ot
great substance,
1625 And all theresyes were brought than
to vttrance;
And so by Germayn ] were brought
vnto Rauenus(!)
The body of saynt Albon, | and there
'by) themperour
Valentiniane | he was nobly receyued
than,
And also the body, | with all godly
honour;
1630 Where Germayn sore vexed with a
mortal! dolour
Departed (from) this lyfe and vale
of all misery
To theternall lyfe 1 in the celestiall
glory;
After whose deth themperours
mother,
Placida by name, | as Coloners doth
say,
1635 To Rome brought this body, | she
with many other;
With alldewereuerence, [ thereabode
many a day;
Tyll Otto themperour ] with his mo
ther Theophana
Brought it to Colen [ to tharchebys-
shop Brunon
In to the monastery of holy Pan
thaleon.
