And if so be þou wol do me no grace
Or if my destyne be schapid so [folio 31b]
That I schal needes haue on of hem two
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So send me him þat most desireþ me
Biholde goddes of clene chastite
The bitter teeres þat on my cheekes falle
Syn þou art mayde and keper of vs alle
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My maydenhode þou kepe and wel conserue
And whil I lyue a mayde I wil þe serue /
The fyres bren vpon þe auter cleer
whil Emelye was in hire preyer
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But sodeinly sche saugh a sighte queynt
For right anon on of þe fyres queynt
And quyked agayn and after þat anon
That oþer fyr was queynt and al a-gon
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And as it queynt it made a whistelyng
As doþ a wete brond in his brennyng
And at þe brondes end out ran anoon
As it were bloody dropes many oon
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For which so sore agast was Emelye
That sche wel neih mad was and gan to crie
For sche ne wiste what it signifyed
But oonely for feere þus sche cryed
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And wepte þat/ it was pite to heere
And þer-wiþ-al Dyane gan appeere
wiþ bow in hond right as a hunteresse
And seyd a doughter stynt þyn heuynesse
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Among þe goddes hye it is affermed
And by eterne word write & confermed
Thou schalt be wedded vnto oon of þo
That haue for þe so moche care and wo
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But vnto which of hem may I nat telle
Far wel for I may her no lenger dwelle
The fyres which þat on myn auter bren
Schuln þe declare or þat þou go hen
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Thyn aduenture of loue and in þis caas
