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¶ The teerys from hise eyen / leet he falle
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Almyghty lord / o Ihesu crist quod he
Sowere of chaast conseil / hierde of vs alle
The fruyt of thilke seed / of chastitee
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That thow hast sowe in Cecilie / taak to thee
Lo lyk a bisy bee / with outen gyle
Thee serueth ay / thyn owne thral Cecile
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¶ ffor thilke spouse / that she took but now
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fful lyk a fiers leon /. she sendeth heere
As meke / as euere was any lamb to yow
And with that word / anon ther gan appeere
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An old man / clad in white clothes cleere
That hadde a book with lettre of gold in honde
And gan / biforn Valerian to stonde
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¶ Valerian as deed / fil doun for drede
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Whan he hym say / and he vp hente hym tho
And on his book right thus he gan to rede
O. lord / o. feith / o. god with oute mo
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O. cristendom / and fader of alle also
Abouen alle / and oueral euery where
Thise wordes / al with gold ywriten were
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[ [Rats.] [folio 168b] W]han this was rad / thanne seyde this olde man
Leuestow this thyng or no / sey ye / or nay
I leue al this thyng quod Valerian
ffor sother thyng than this / I dar wel say
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Vnder the heuene / no wight thynke may
Tho vanysshed this olde man / he nyste where
And pope [[blotted out]] Vrban / hym cristned right there
