Of a lady to be loved: 'Loke to hir sone,
Of wich beryng þat ho be, and wych ho best lovyes,
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And be ryȝt such, in uch a borȝe, of body and of dedes,
And folȝ þe fet of þat fere þat þou fre haldes;
And if þou wyrkkes on þis wyse, þaȝ ho wyk were,
Hir schal lyke þat layk þat lyknes hir tylle.'
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If þou wyl dele drwrye wyth Dryȝtyn, þenne,
And lelly lovy þy Lorde, and his leef worþe,
Þenne conforme þe to Kryst, and þe clene make,
Þat ever is polyced als playn as þe perle selven.
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For loke fro fyrst þat he lyȝt wythinne þe lel Mayden,
By how comly a kest he watz clos þere,
When venkkyst watz no vergynyte, ne vyolence maked, [MS. he expunged, after when.]
Bot much clener watz hir corse, God kynned þerinne.
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And efte when he borne watz in Beþelen þe ryche,
In wych puryte þay departed; þaȝ þay pover were,
Watz never so blysful a bour as watz a bos þenne, [MS., M. abos; M. note abof(?); Sk. a bos.]
Ne no schroude-hous so schene as a schepon þare,
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Ne non so glad under God as ho þat grone schulde.
For þer watz seknesse al sounde þat sarrest is halden,
And þer watz rose reflayr where rote hatz ben ever,
And þer watz solace and songe wher sorȝ hatz ay cryed;
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For aungelles wyth instrumentes of organes and pypes, [folio 76a]
And rial ryngande rotes, and þe reken fyþel,
And alle hende þat honestly moȝt an hert glade,
Aboutte my Lady watz lent, quen ho delyver were.
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Þenne watz her blyþe barne burnyst so clene
Þat boþe þe ox and þe asse hym hered at ones:
Þay knewe hym by his clannes for Kyng of nature,
