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1 I| Church remembereth in the seven anthems that be sung before
2 I| sent and came to us for seven profits, where he saith:
3 I| hallowed upon the revolution of seven days and of seven thousand
4 I| revolution of seven days and of seven thousand years, understood
5 I| this blessed resurrection seven things be to be considered.
6 I| secondly, the procession of seven orders. Thirdly, the black
7 I| Litany is said procession of seven orders, because that when
8 I| Gregory ordained them by seven ordinances. For in the first
9 I| resurrection; for which to declare, seven things be to be considered.
10 I| so great. And as there be seven heavens, after his saying,
11 I| which is the seventh way of seven thousand years; and unto
12 I| concavity of the eighth heaven seven thousand and seven hundred
13 I| heaven seven thousand and seven hundred years, that is as
14 I| could go in plain way in seven thousand and seven hundred
15 I| way in seven thousand and seven hundred years if a man might
16 I| Holy Ghost, And that for seven causes that were in them.
17 I| it is to be noted, for seven causes he was sent, that
18 I| and this is done at the seven times or hours canonical
19 I| water, and environed about seven times, and seven times arrosed
20 I| environed about seven times, and seven times arrosed and besprent
21 I| perilous fellowship. ~Or by the seven goings about of the altar
22 I| of the altar be signified seven considerations that we ought
23 I| we ought to have unto the seven virtues of the humility
24 I| the water, which signified seven effusions of the blood of
25 I| And the altar is environed seven times for to signify that
26 I| for to signify that the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost
27 I| in the baptism; or by the seven goings about be signified
28 I| goings about be signified the seven comings of Jesu Christ.
29 I| slayeth Cain shall be punished seven sithes more, for he should
30 I| seventh Cain shall loose seven vengeances. Some hold that
31 I| generation, for he committed seven sins. He departed not truly,
32 I| sin of Cain was punished seven sithes, so was the sin of
33 I| Lameth seventy sithes and seven. That is to say seventyseven
34 I| be clean thou shalt take seven, and of unclean beasts but
35 I| only two. And of the birds seven and seven, male and female,
36 I| And of the birds seven and seven, male and female, that they
37 I| of the earth. Yet after seven days I shall rain upon the
38 I| our Lord had bidden. And seven days after they were entered,
39 I| tops of the hills bare. And seven days after he sent her out
40 I| her mouth. And after other seven days he sent her again,
41 I| generation of Shem. Japhet had seven sons and Ham four sons.
42 I| Rachel thy younger daughter seven years. Laban answered: It
43 I| Jacob served him for Rachel seven years, and him thought it
44 I| to her. And at the end of seven years, Jacob said to Laban:
45 I| Rachel my daughter for other seven years that thou shalt serve
46 I| him thought that the other seven years were but short. Our
47 I| pursued him by the space of seven days and overtook him in
48 I| river, from which he saw seven oxen ascend to the land
49 I| fat pasture; he saw other seven come out of the river, poor
50 I| saw another dream. He saw seven ears of corn standing on
51 I| the beauty of the first seven. In the morning Pharaoh
52 I| is tofore written, of the seven fat oxen and seven lean,
53 I| of the seven fat oxen and seven lean, and how the lean devoured
54 I| hath showed to Pharaoh. The seven fat oxen and the seven ears
55 I| The seven fat oxen and the seven ears full, betoken seven
56 I| seven ears full, betoken seven years to come of great plenty
57 I| and commodious, and the seven lean oxen, and the seven
58 I| seven lean oxen, and the seven void ears smitten with drought,
59 I| smitten with drought, betoken seven years after them of great
60 I| there shall come first seven years of great fertility
61 I| whom shall follow other seven years of so great sterility,
62 I| that shall grow these first seven plenteous years that be
63 I| against the coming of the seven scarce years that shall
64 I| plenteousness and fertility of the seven years came, and sheaves
65 I| poverty. ~Then passed the seven years of plenty and fertility
66 I| that were in Egypt, and the seven years of scarcity and hunger
67 I| children four. Simeon with his seven sons. Levi with his three
68 I| entered with his children seven. Asher with his children
69 I| Bilhah; they were in number seven. All the souls that were
70 I| life were an hundred and seven and forty years. When he
71 I| exequies by great wailing seven days long. And when they
72 I| The priest of Midian had seven daughters which came thither
73 I| And this plague endured seven days, and whatsomever water
74 I| first belong to God, and the seven other be ordained for our
75 I| put to shame and rebuke seven days? Let her depart out
76 I| depart out of the castles seven days, and after she shall
77 I| shut out of the castles seven days, and the people removed
78 II| region of the Philistines seven months. After this they
79 II| he brought tofore Samuel seven of them, and Samuel said
80 II| Jabesh-Gilead and fasted seven days. ~Thus endeth the life
81 II| reigned in Hebron upon Judah seven years and six months, and
82 II| choose whether he would have seven years hunger in his land,
83 II| pass over. It was on making seven years, and his palace was
84 II| most burning love. He had seven hundred wives which were
85 II| going from all evil. He had seven sons and three daughters,
86 II| and his possession was seven thousand sheep, three thousand
87 II| their heads, and sat by him seven days and seven nights, and
88 II| sat by him seven days and seven nights, and no man spake
89 II| spoken. Take ye therefore seven bulls and seven wethers
90 II| therefore seven bulls and seven wethers and go to my servant
91 II| thousand asses. And he had seven sons and three daughters.
92 II| For she had been given to seven men, and a devil named Asmodeus
93 II| slay me as thou hast slain seven men? With this voice and
94 II| that she hath been given to seven men, and they be dead, and
95 II| knowing what had fallen to seven men that tofore had wedded
96 II| as it hath happed to the seven men that wedded her. When
97 II| Tobias my son. After these seven days Sara the wife of his
98 II| God had showed to him. And seven days they ate together making
99 II| him Tobias his son, and seven of his young sons, his nephews,
100 II| the people bewailed her seven days. During her life after
101 II| said to him that there were seven devils without the city,
102 II| and it was told him that seven dogs came and strangled
103 II| Stephen was one of the seven deacons in the ministry
104 II| them all, and they chose seven men, of whom the blessed
105 II| but she had ten children, seven sons and three daughters.
106 II| into Egypt and was there seven years, unto the death of
107 II| shut him in a little cell seven years long, and gave to
108 II| church himself. At the end of seven years an angel came to the
109 II| hundred and four score and seven. ~
110 II| throughout all the countries, seven deacons, and to them seven
111 II| seven deacons, and to them seven subdeacons, for to write
112 II| with a white mantle among seven angels, and gave to S. Sebastian
113 II| for I have seen certainly seven angels tofore thee holding
114 II| Lord two hundred and eighty seven. ~And S. Gregory telleth
115 III| age was fifty three years seven months and twenty days,
116 III| to prison. And there were seven women that siewed him, which
117 III| molten and iron combs, and seven coats of iron burning as
118 III| three hundred and eighty seven.~
119 III| And there were baptized in seven days more than ten thousand
120 III| this church was S. Peter seven years, and from thence he
121 III| the palsy which had been seven years sick. The second year
122 III| deliver it again within seven days. When all the people
123 III| of his disciples. He took seven maidens, all naked, and
124 III| at an altar. And there is seven years and seven lents of
125 III| there is seven years and seven lents of pardon; and the
126 III| of the devil, and cried seven days continually and said:
127 III| the smoke. At the age of seven years, when he learned at
128 III| tofore him all the bishops, seven days tofore his death, and
129 III| and said to them: These seven days hath our Lord given
130 III| Philip, which was one of the seven deacons, S. Jerome saith
131 III| when S. James had preached seven days in the temple with
132 III| evil rest. When he had been seven days in that pit, then said
133 III| which lay so by the space of seven days untouched. And at the
134 III| prison and there kept her seven days and seven nights without
135 III| kept her seven days and seven nights without an meat and
136 III| about the year of our Lord seven hundred and six. And that
137 III| Archemius, because they should seven days comfort the people
138 III| mass in the same pit with seven christian men that defended
139 III| martyrdom the year of grace seven hundred and eighty-seven,
140 III| king but three years and seven months, and when his own
141 III| he abode with him there seven years. And after, for divers
142 IV| Rome afire, which burned seven days and seven sights, and
143 IV| which burned seven days and seven sights, and was in a high
144 IV| marvelleth, which abode seven years for his spouse, but
145 IV| For he abode not only seven years for Christ his spouse,
146 IV| follow the Lives of the Seven Brethren. ~The seven brethren
147 IV| the Seven Brethren. ~The seven brethren were the sons of
148 IV| martyr, for she suffered seven times death in her seven
149 IV| seven times death in her seven sons, and the eighth time
150 IV| after her, for to live, her seven sons in prison, like as
151 IV| abode out of the monastery seven years, and nourished the
152 IV| vanished away. ~When the seven years were complete that
153 IV| accused of a child. And seven times be changed on her.
154 IV| Kenelm made king when he was seven years of age, and his sister
155 IV| love, that he took from her seven devils. He embraced her
156 IV| blood which had held her seven years. And by the merits
157 IV| remained there by the space of seven days to all them that entered
158 IV| saith that, every day at the seven hours canonical she was
159 IV| in the year of our Lord seven hundred and seventy-one,
160 IV| there was kept and refreshed seven months. From thence he came
161 IV| two hundred four score and seven. Her body was buried in
162 IV| God, and took the other seven with him and returned again
163 IV| Lives of Of the Seven Sleepers. ~The seven sleepers
164 IV| the Seven Sleepers. ~The seven sleepers were born in the
165 IV| in this city were founden seven christian men, that is to
166 IV| Rome, and took with him seven sumpters charged and laden
167 IV| Here followeth the Seven Maccabees. ~There were seven
168 IV| Seven Maccabees. ~There were seven Maccabees with their worshipful
169 IV| the mystery, the number of seven is universal and general.
170 IV| saints, nevertheless in these seven is done reverence to them
171 IV| is said by the number of seven is assigned an university.
172 IV| great that there behoved seven couple oxen to draw him
173 IV| buried by hls body. And seven years after, Juliana his
174 IV| little, and him seemed that seven stars stood tofore him;
175 IV| doubted not but these were the seven stars that he had seen. ~
176 IV| forty years. And there were seven emperors between them, so
177 V| was named Aleth. She had seven children, six males and
178 V| holy saint from that isle seven miles, without to be seen
179 V| departing he did do write the seven psalms of penance in a place
180 V| enough for to garnish with seven thousand men. And when the
181 V| And as soon as they were seven miles nigh unto the town,
182 V| about the year of our Lord seven hundred.~
183 V| house of her father with seven virgins, her fellows of
184 V| there Natalie cleansed, seven days during, the wounds
185 V| and the year of our Lord seven hundred and seventy four
186 V| in the year of our Lord seven hundred and fifty. And then
187 V| her in prison without meat seven days, and pressed her there
188 V| was there and conversed seven years goodly. On a night
189 V| virtue of patience. And after seven years Ferramund was put
190 V| from the time that he was seven years old he was consecrated
191 V| to hounds and were there seven days, and after they were
192 V| in the year of our Lord seven hundred and ten, in a place
193 V| snow all naked, and made seven great balls of snow and
194 V| do make ready a capon of seven years old, and as they ate
195 VI| mine eyes, and I saw the seven sleepers Iying in a cave
196 VI| in his land in which such seven men should sleep. Then the
197 VI| there found the cave and the seven martyrs sleeping as they
198 VI| her oratory and said the seven Psalms and Litany, and when
199 VI| went thither, and said the seven psalms. And when he had
200 VI| Antioch, and had held there seven years the dignity of the
201 VI| the mother and did for her seven years penance, and that
202 VI| which they have done by seven days, or that all the sins
203 VI| make there by the space of seven years, and there to assemble
204 VI| laws of God. And after the seven years to go to some holy
205 VI| when she had abode there seven years, she departed thence
206 VI| our Lord. And there were seven of his noble lineage which
207 VI| two hundred four score and seven. And Melchiades, the pope,
208 VI| the pope, and abode there seven years, and purged him of
209 VI| and was bishop after that seven year and led a holy and
210 VI| laudable life. And in the seven and fortieth year of his
211 VI| seventh of God, for she had seven things in her; she had the
212 VI| things in her; she had the seven works of mercy, or because
213 VI| resurrection. Or for the seven estates that were in her.
214 VI| estate glorious. And these seven estates be appertly contained
215 VI| Nebuchadnezzar, that is to wit seven times be changed in her.
216 VI| with all her power to the seven works of mercy.~She gave
217 VI| labouring in divers of the seven sciences, the spirit of
218 VI| passion, the sea departed by seven days during, four miles
219 VII| VOLUME SEVEN~ ~
220 VII| beauty, and when she came to seven years of age,anon after
221 VII| ordained for to wait on her seven the best masters and wisest
222 VII| dwelled there by the space of seven years much devoutly in the
223 VII| Lord, I have said to thee seven times in the day praisings.
224 VII| England, and when he was seven years of his age he was
225 VII| had indignation of meat seven weeks continually, and of
226 VII| strong, and victualled it for seven years. And then he took
227 VII| to come to, and all these seven years ye shall keep your
228 VII| Lord in the church, anon seven tapers of wax be set in
229 VII| twenty-four monks, and the seven tapers burning, and the
230 VII| shall be guided till the seven years be fulfilled, and
231 VII| from year to year till the seven years be accomplished. Anrl
232 VII| they were no more seen. And seven days they sailed always
233 VII| the south, which sailed seven days continually, and they
234 VII| had kept them all those seven years from many a peril
235 VII| king of the Lombards, found seven children cast into a piscine
236 VII| monastery, about the year seven hundred and fifty. And then
237 VII| about the year of our Lord seven hundred and fifty-six.~Dagobert,
238 VII| about the year of our Lord seven hundred, Rachortus, King
239 VII| time, the year of our Lord seven hundred and forty, when
240 VII| transported whole and safe seven miles thence. The body of
241 VII| About the year of our Lord seven hundred and eighty-three
242 VII| pope, the year of our Lord seven hundred and eighty-four
243 VII| after of eight, and after of seven, and after of six, till
244 VII| of the days, ten, eight, seven, six.~After this emperor
245 VII| Lord eleven hundred and seven, which took the pope with
246 VII| evensong time, he after seven days took his refection,
247 VII| height, and there he dwelled seven years after, and after,
248 VII| thanked God and departed.~Seven years after, his mother
249 VII| cubits, whereon he dwelled seven years after, that is to
250 VII| hanged up there the space of seven days, many men seeing it.~
251 VII| than ye, will be wroth. And seven days long he embraced the
252 VII| the complaint was heard seven miles, and there came thereabout
253 VII| ten of the clock he saw seven ancient men that spake to
254 VII| smelling by evident witnesses seven years after that he was
255 VII| first he tempted him of the seven deadly sins, but God would
256 VII| fasted once by the space of seven days without any meat or
257 VII| about the year of grace seven hundred. I have said before
258 VII| certain sum of silver, also to seven score poor men which daily
259 VII| hearing whole, saying his seven psalms and calling on all
260 VII| firmly to the study, that in seven years while he was pledge,
261 VII| profited so much in the seven sciences and in holy scripture
262 VII| again unto life. A maiden of seven years of age, which had
263 VII| to life and lived after seven months. Another child which
264 VII| Lord.~Sometimes he saith seven, in signifying the seven
265 VII| seven, in signifying the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost.
266 VII| noster, is that it containeth seven petitions or askings. The
267 VII| longeth to the Father, the seven to the Son, and the other
268 VII| article are understood the seven sacraments of holy church,
269 VII| town this holy man abode seven days, preaching the word
270 VII| 141.~Septuagesima, i. 52.~Seven Brethren. July 10, iv. 66.~
271 VII| Brethren. July 10, iv. 66.~Seven Sleepers. July 27, iv. 120.~
272 VII| in England, vi. 4.~Capon seven years old, v. 229.~Capons' (
273 VII| ii. 126.~Ephesus and the seven sleepers, iv. 121.~Epileptic
274 VII| mercy from paradise, i. 180.~Seven sleepers, vision of the,
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