Laud 471, in the Bodleian Library, along with their French originals.

They are printed in Morris's _Old English Miscellany_, and two of them will be found in _Specimens of Early English_, Part I, p.141.The former of these is for the Epiphany, the text being taken from Matt.

ii 1.

The date is just before 1250.
I give an extract.
The kinges hem wenten and hi seghen the sterre thet yede bifore hem, alwat hi kam over tho huse war ure loverd was; and alswo hi hedden i-fonden ure loverd, swo hin an-urede, and him offrede hire offrendes, gold, and stor, and mirre.

Tho nicht efter thet aperede an ongel of hevene in here slepe ine metinge, and hem seide and het, thet hi ne solde ayen wende be herodes, ac be an other weye wende into hire londes.
That is: The kings went (them), and they saw the star that went before them until it came over the house where our Lord was; and as-soon-as they had found our Lord, so (they) honoured him, and offered him their offerings, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.