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And lo! thou schalt be doumbe, and thou schalt not mow speke til in to the dai, in which these thingis schulen be don; for thou hast not bileued to my wordis, whiche schulen be fulfillid in her tyme.

For so the Lord dide to me in the daies, in whiche he bihelde, to take awei my repreef among men.

And the aungel seide to hir, Ne drede thou not, Marie, for thou hast foundun grace anentis God.

And Marie seide to the aungel, On what maner schal this thing be doon, for Y knowe not man?

for euery word schal not be inpossible anentis God.

For lo! as the voice of thi salutacioun was maad in myn eeris, the yong child gladide in ioye in my wombe.

And blessid be thou, that hast bileued, for thilke thingis that ben seid of the Lord to thee, schulen be parfitli don.

For he hath biholdun the mekenesse of his handmaidun.

For lo! of this alle generaciouns schulen seie that Y am blessid. For he that is myyti hath don to me grete thingis, and his name is hooli.

And thei seiden to hir, For no man is in thi kynrede, that is clepid this name.

And alle men that herden puttiden in her herte, and seiden, What maner child schal this be? For the hoond of the Lord was with hym.

and seide, Blessid be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visitid, and maad redempcioun of his puple.

And thou, child, schalt be clepid the prophete of the Hiyest; for thou schalt go bifor the face of the Lord, to make redi hise weies.

And Joseph wente vp fro Galilee, fro the citee Nazareth, in to Judee, in to a citee of Dauid, that is clepid Bethleem, for that he was of the hous and of the meyne of Dauid,

And sche bare hir first borun sone, and wlappide hym in clothis, and leide hym in a cratche, for ther was no place to hym in no chaumbir.

And the aungel seide to hem, Nyle ye drede; for lo! Y preche to you a greet ioye, that schal be to al puple.

For a sauyoure is borun to dai to you, that is Crist the Lord, in the citee of Dauid.

For euery male kynde openynge the wombe, schal be clepid holi to the Lord; and that thei schulen yyue an offryng,

And he cam in spirit into the temple. And whanne his fadir and modir ledden the child Jhesu to do aftir the custom of the lawe for hym,

for myn iyen han seyn thin helthe,