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And it fortuned assone as the angels were gone awaye fro them in to heven the shepherdes sayd one to another: let vs goo eve vnto Bethleem and se this thynge that is hapened which the Lorde hath shewed vnto vs.
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And they cam with haste and founde Mary and Ioseph and the babe layde in a mager.
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And when they had sene it they publisshed a brode the sayinge which was tolde them of that chylde.
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And all that hearde it wondred at those thinges which were tolde the of the shepherdes.
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But Mary kept all thoose sayinges and pondered them in hyr hert.
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And the shepherdes retourned praysinge and laudinge God for all that they had herde and sene evyn as it was told vnto them.
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And when ye eyght daye was come yt the chylde shuld be circucised his name was called Iesus which was named of the angell before he was conceaved in the wombe.
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And when the tyme of their purificacio (after the lawe of Moyses) was come they brought him to Hierusalem to present hym to ye Lorde
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(as yt is written in the lawe of the Lorde: every man that fyrst openeth the matrix shalbe called holy to the Lorde)
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and to offer (as it ys sayde in the lawe of the Lorde) a payre of turtle doves or two yonge pigions.
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And beholde ther was a ma in Hierusalem whose name was Simeon. And the same ma was iuste and feared God and longed for the consolacion of Israel and the holy goost was in him.