That if ȝow list / I shal wel haue my loue
Thy temple wol I worshipe / euere mo
And on thyn auter / where I ride or go
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I wyl don sacrifise / and fires bete
And if ȝe wyl nat so / my lady swete
Than preye I the / to-morwe with a spere
That Arcita me / thorugh þe hert bere
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Than rekke I nought / whan I haue lost my lif
Though þat Arcita / wynne hire to his wyf
This is the effect / and ende of my preyere
Ȝeue me my lyf / þou blisseful lady dere
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¶ . whan þat the orison / was don of Palamon
His sacrifise he dide / and that a-non
fful pitously / with alle the circumstaunceȝ
Alle telle i nat / as now / his obseruaunceȝ
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But at the laste / the stature of venus shoke
And made a signe / wher-by þat he toke
That his prayer / accepted was that day
ffor though the signe / shewed a delay
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Ȝet wist he wele / that graunted was his bone
And with glad herte / he went him hom ful sone
THe thridde houre / in-equall þat Palamon
Began to venus temple / for to gon
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vp ros the sonne / and vp ros Emelye
And to the temple of Diane / gan hye
Hire maydenes / þat she thidder with hire ladde
fful redily with hem / the fyr they hadde
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The encence / the clothes / and the remenaunt alle
That to the sacrefice / longen shalle
The hornes ful of mede / as was the gyse
There lakked nouȝt / to don hire sacrefise
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Smokyng the temple / ful of clothes faire
This Emelye / with herte debonaire
hir body vessh / with water of a welle
But how she dide / hir rite / I dar nat telle
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But it be ony thyng / in general
