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Yet preye I yow / þat reden that I write
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fforyeue me / that I do no diligence
This ilke storie / subtilly to endite
ffor boþe haue I / the wordes and sentence
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Of hym / that at the seintes reuerence
The storie wroot and folwen hire legende
I pray yow / that ye wole my werk amende
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(13) [THE TALE.]
First wolde I / the name of seinte Cecile [¶ Interpretacio no|minis Cecilie / quam ponit frater lacobus lanuensis in legenda]
Expowne / as men may in hir storie see
It is to seye in englissh / heuenes lilie
ffor pure chaastnesse of virginitee
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Or / for she whitnesse hadde of honestee
And grene of Conscience / and of good fame
The soote favour lilie / was hir name
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Or Cecilie is to seye / the wey to blynde
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ffor she ensample was / by good techynge
Or elles Cecile / as I writen fynde
Is ioyned / by a manere conioynynge
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Of heuene and lia / and heere in figurynge
The heuene is set for thoght of hoolynesse
And lia / for hire lastynge bisynesse
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Cecile / may eek be seyd / in this manere
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Wantynge of blyndnesse / for hir grete light
Of sapience / and for hire thewes cleere
Or elles loo / this maydens name bright
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Of heuene and leos comth / for which by right
Men myghte hire wel / the heuene of peple calle
Ensample / of goode / and wise werkes alle
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