Þe bone þat he hadde i-bede, cristenemen it vnderstode:
In þe honurance of seint blase he parteden of here gode:
Þe betere preuede al here [on the margin added oþer] god, .ȝ. ȝeth it doþ al-so,
In þe stede wher his ymage is, . þei findeþ it wel y-do.
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Ȝ who is in stable beleue, ȝ wille to sein blase crye,
Ȝ ȝifue of his good in honur of hym, god nelle nat for him lye.
God leue þat we parti mote of þe heye blisse
Þere þat seint blase is Inne i-brout, þat we þer-offe ne mysse. amen
74 Vita & passio sancte Cecilie virginis & martiris.
Seinte Cecilie, of noble kynde I-bore ȝe was at rome;
Oure louerd crist ȝe louede wel ar ȝe fram cradel come.
Stilleliche ȝe hire let baptiȝe, as we fynden I-wryte;
To oure louerd crist ȝe bad ȝerne hire maydenhod to wyte.
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So þat þoru strengþe of hire frendes I-spoused ȝe was to a man
Of gret nobleye ȝ of richesse, his name was Vallerian.
Þis mayde werede robe of pal ȝ cloþes swiþe riche,
Garlaundes ȝ tressoures of gold—þe here next hire liche.
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Whane ȝe herde menstrales song, . ȝe song in hire menstralcie, [Ash. Wen þe m. songe hor song: of hor m.]
Þis mayde stiliche song of god ȝ of his moder marye.
A vers of þe psalter hire song was, wer-on was mast hire þout:
"Lat, louerd, myn herte wiþoute wem be, þt it confundet be naut!"
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A-nyȝt as ȝe was in riche bed wiþ hire lord i-brouth,
Sone he hadde of folye þis clene mayde be-sout.
"Swete herte," þis mayde seyde, "for loue þou hast to me,
Graunte me y mowe þe telle a litel pryuete,
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Þat ich me mowe þerof schryue, ȝ. þt þou it wille hele."
"Certes, lemman," þis ȝungman seyde, "noþing telle I nele."
"Suete lemman," þis mayde seyde, "in warde icham I-do:
An aungel of heuene is my wardeyn, ȝ my lemman þer-to.
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Wel faste he stant her bi me. ȝif he vnderȝete
Þat þou be-nome my maydenhod, noþing nolde he lete
Þat he ne wolde harde smyte, ȝ be-nyme þe þi myȝtte [folio 231]
Of þi ȝungnesse ȝ of noble stat, for þou ne myȝth wiþ him fyȝtthe.
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Ac ȝif he wiste þou louedest me in gode loue ȝ clene,
Wytte [MS. wytie?] he wolde þe als he deþ me, ȝ al yuel fro þe ȝene."
"Ȝif þou wilt," seyde Vallerian, "þat ich I-leue þis,
Þen angel þou most me schewe, þat I se hym I-wis;
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Ȝ wanne I þat soþe i-se, þat þou hast soþ i-seyd,
In clenesse for-soþe þi wille I do, al after þi red.
Ȝif I se þat in folye þou louest anoþer þan me,
