And wiþ þat word þe arwes in þe caas
Of þe goddesse clatren faste and rynge
And forþ sche went and made a vanysschynge
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For which this Emelye astoneyd was [folio 32a]
And seide what amounteþ þis allas
I put me vnder þy proteccioun
Dyane and in þi disposicioun
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And hoom sche goþ anon þe nexte way
This is þeffect/ þer nys no mor to say
The nexte houre of mars folwynge þis
Arcite to þe temple walkyd is /
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To fyry mars to doon his sacrifise /
with al þe rightes of his payen wise
with pitous herte and heih deuocioun
Right thus to mars he sayd his orisoun
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O stronge god þat in þe reynes cold
Of trace honoured and lord art þou hold
And hast in euery regne and euery land
Of armes al þe bridel in þy hand
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And hem fortunest as þe lust deuyse
Accept/ of me my pitous sacrifise
If so be þat my ȝouthe may deserue
And þat my might be worþi to deserue
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Thy godhed þat/ I may be on of þine
Then pray I þe / to rewe on my pyne
For þilke peyne and þat hoote fuyre
The which whilom þou brendest for desyre
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whan þat þou vsedest þe gret bewte
Of faire freissche Venus þat is so free
And haddest hir in armes at þy wille
And þough þe ones on a tyme mysfille
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whan Vlcanus had caught þe in his laas
And fand þe liggyng by his wyf allaas
For þilke sorwe þat was in þin herte
haue reuthe as wel vpon my peynes smerte
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I am ȝong and vnkonnyng as þou wost
