Ȝoure vertu is so gret in heuen aboue
Thy temple wol I worschipe euermo
And on þin auter wher I ryde or go
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I wol do sacrifice and fyres beete
And if ȝe wol nat so my lady sweete
Than pray I þe to morwe with a spere
That arcita me þurgh the herte bere /
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Thanne rekke I nat whan I haue lost my lyf
Though þat arcite haue hir to his wyf
This is þeffect/ and ende of my prayeere
Ȝif me my love my blisful lady deere
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whan thorisoun was doon of Palomon
his sacrifice he dede and þat anoon
Ful pitously with alle circumstances
Al telle I nat as now his obseruances
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But at þe last þe statu of venus schook
And made a signe wherby þat he took
That his prayer accepted was þat day
For þough þe signe schewed a delay
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Ȝet wist he wel þat graunted was his boone
And wiþ glad herte he went him hom ful soone
The þrid hour in equal þat Palomon
Bigan to Venus temple for to goon
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vp roos þe sonne and vp roos Emelye
And to þe temple of Dian gan sche hye
Hir maydens þat sche wiþ hir þider ladde
Ful redily wiþ hem þe fyr þey hadde
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Thencens / þe cloþes and þemenant al
That to þe sacrifice longen schal
The hornes ful of meth as is þe gyse /
Ther lakkeþ nouȝt to do here sacrifise
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Smokyng þe temple ful of cloþes faire
This Emelye wiþ herte debonaire
Hir body wessch wiþ wtir of a welle
But how sche dide I ne dar nat telle
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But it be eny þing in general [folio 31a]
