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Dr Tony Corbett asked about a quotation in the York Mystery Cycle.
I don't think you'll find the source in quite this form in the Vulgate.
Although the speaker has just referred to Amos, I cannot find anything like
this in his book, which is concerned more with the dispersion of Israel
than the specifics of its salvation. The quotation seems to be a version
of Psalm74, v.12 * For God is my king of old, working salvation in the
midst of the earth * (KJV). My copy of the York text (Purvis, SPCK, 1957)
has the following footnote: *A marginal note in a 16th century hand says,
-Doctor, this matter is newly mayde, whereof we have no coppy -*. Since the
whole of the Prologue to these two plays is spoken by the mysterious
Doctor, and it is full of similar Latin sentences (most of which give a
Bible text reference and some of which are, like this one, approximate),
the *newly mayde* annotation might apply to the whole of it.
This kind of free, more-or-less translation must have been common enough
among parish clergy and laity alike. John de Mandeville's version is *Deus
autem rex noster ante secula operatus est salutem in medio terre* (Travels,
p. 129).
Hope it's helpful
Anne Marshall
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