English Nativity Plays

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Samuel Burdett Hemingway
H. Holt, 1909 - Drama, Medieval - 319 pages

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Page 219 - Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Page 273 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 224 - Thus saith the Lord GOD ; This is Jerusalem : I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
Page 269 - In sanctitate, et justitia coram ipso, omnibus diebus nostris. (Et tu puer, propheta Altissimi vocaberis: praeibis enim ante faciem Domini parare vias ejus:) Ad dandam scientiam...
Page 97 - Magnificat anima mea Dominum: Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.
Page 286 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly I know not what, He should, or he should not; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet...
Page 256 - Exsurgens autem Maria in diebus illis abiit in montana cum festinatione, in civitatem Juda.
Page 255 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Page 144 - Nowe in my sawle grete ioie haue I, I am all cladde in comforte clere, Now will be borne of my body Both God and man to-gedir in feere.

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