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¶ ȝet pray I ȝou þat reden þat I write
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fforȝeueþ me for I do no diligence
þis ilke story subtil to endite
ffor boþe haue I þe wordes and þe sentence /
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Of hem þat atte seyntes reuerence /
The story wroot & solewen hir legende
And pray I ȝou þat ȝe woln my werk amende
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(13) [THE TALE.]
fferst wolde I ȝou þe name of seint Cecile
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Expoune as men may in here stories se
It is to say on englissh heuene lylye
ffor pure chastnesse of virginite /
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Oþer for sche witnesse hadde of honeste
Of greue of conscience and of good fame
The soote sauour lilye was hire name
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Ouþer Cecile is to say þe way to blynde
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ffor sche ensample was by good techynge
Or elles. Cecile is as I writen fynde
Is ioyned by a maner conioygnynge
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Of heuen and lya and heiher in figuringe
The heuen is set for þought of holynesse
And lya for hire lastyng busynesse /
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Cecile may eek be sayd in þis manere
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Wantynge of blyndnesse for hire grete light
Of sapiens and for hir þewes clere
Oþer elles þis maydenes name bright/
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Of heuen and leos comeþ for which by right
men mighte þe heuene of poeple hire calle
Ensample of goode and wise werkes alle
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