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¶ Valerian goth hom / and fynt Cecilie
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In with his chambre / with an Aungel stonde
This Aungel hadde / of Roses and of lilie
Corones two / the whiche he bar in honde
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And first to Cecile / as I vnderstonde
He yaf that oon / and after gan he take
That oother / to Valerian hir make
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¶ With body clene / and with vnwemmed thoght
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Kepeth ay wel / thise corones quod he
ffro Paradys / to yow / haue I hem broght
Ne neuere mo / ne shal they roten be
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Ne lese hir swote sauour / trusteth me
Ne neuere wight shal seen hem with his eye
But he be chaast / and hate vileynye
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¶ And thow Valerian / for thow so soone
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Assentedest to good conseil also
Sey what thee list and thow shalt han thy boone
I haue a brother / quod Valerian tho
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That in this world / I loue no man so
I pray yow / that my brother may han grace
To knowe the trouthe / as I do in this place
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¶ The Aungel seyde / god liketh thy requeste
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And bothe / with the palm of martirdom
Ye shullen come / vn to his blisful feste
And with that word / Tiburce his brother coom
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And whan that he / the sauour vndernoom
Which þat the Roses / and the lilies caste
With Inne his herte / he gan to wondre faste
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