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ffor leos / peple in englissh is to seye
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And right as men may / in the heuene see
The sonne and moone / and sterres euery weye
Right so men goostly / in this mayden free
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Syen of feith / the magnanymytee
And eek the cleernesse hool / of sapience
And sondry werkes / brighte / of excellence
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And right/ so / as thise Philosophres write [folio 191a]
That heuene is swift and round / and eek brennynge
Right so / was faire Cecilie the white
fful swift and bisy / euere in good werkynge
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And round and hool / in good perseuerynge
And brennynge euere / in charite ful brighte
Now haue I yow declared what she highte
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¶ Explicit/
¶ Here bigynneth the Seconde Nonnes tale / of the lyf of Seinte Cecile .
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This mayden bright Cecilie / as hir lif seith [[Painting of the Second Nun]]
Was comen of Romayns / and of noble kynde
And from hir Cradel / vp fostred in the feith
Of Crist and bar his gospel in hir mynde
She neuere cessed / as I writen fynde
Of hir preyere / and god to loue and drede
Bisekynge hym / to kepe hir maydenhede
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And whan this mayden / sholde vn-to a man
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Ywedded be / that was ful yong of age
Which that ycleped was Valerian
And day was comen / of hir marriage
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She ful devout and humble in hire corage
Vnder hir robe of gold / that sat ful faire
Hadde next hire flessh / yclad hire in an haire
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