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Rh Zacharie, and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe; as Elizabeth heard the salutation of, the infant did leap in her womb. And Elizabeth was replenished with the Holy Ghost: and she cried out with a loud voice, and said, ″ art thou among women, and Blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the ″ mother of my Lord doth come to me? For behold as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the infant in my womb did leap for joy. And Blessed is she that beleeved because those things shal be accomplished that were spoken to her by our Lord. And said:

MY SOULE doth magnifie our Lord:

And my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour.✠

Because he hath regarded the humilitie of his handmaid; for behold from hence forth al Generations ″ shal cal me Blessed.

Because he that is mightie hath done great things to me; and holy is his name.

And his mercie from Generation unto Generations, to them that feare him.

He hath shewed might in his arme: he hath dispersed the proud in the conceit of their hart.

He hath deposed the mightie from their seat, & hath exalted the humble.

The hungrie he hath filled with good things: and the rich he hath sent away emptie.

He hath receaved Israel his child, being mindful of his mercie,

As he spake to our Fathers, to Abraham and his seed for ever.

And taried with her about three months: and she returned into her house.

And Elizabeths ful time was come to be delivered; and she bare a Sonne. And her neighbours and kinsfolke heard that our Lord did magnifie his mercie with her, and they did congratulate her. And it came to passe; on the eight day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his fathers name Zacharie. And his mother answering, said: Not so, but he shal be called John. And they said to her, That there is none in thy kinred that is called by this name. And they made signes to his father, what he would have him called. And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: ″ * John is his name. And they al marveled. And forthwith his mouth was opened, and his tongue, and he spake blessing God. And feare came upon al their neighbours; and al these things were bruited over al the hil-countrie of Jewrie: and al that had heard, laid them up in their hart, saying: What an one, trow ye, shal this child be? For the hand of our Lord was with him. And Zacharie his father was replenished with the Holy Ghost; and he prophecied, saying:

God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his People:✠

And hath erected the horne of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.

As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets, that are from the beginning:

Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of al that hate us:

To worke mercie with our Fathers; and to remember his holy Testament,

* The oth which he sware to Abraham our father, that he would give to us. Rh