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And seyde / I wondre / this tyme of the yeer
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Whennes / that soote sauour cometh so
Of Rose and lilies / that I smelle heer
ffor though I hadde hem / in myne handes two
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The sauour / myghte in me no depper go
The sweete smel / þat in myn herte I fynde
Hath chaunged me / al in another kynde
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¶ Valerian seyde / two corones / han we
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Snow white and Rose reed / that shynen cleere
Whiche þat thyne eyen / han no myght to see
And as thou smellest hem / thurgh my preyere
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So shaltow seen hem / leeue brother deere
If it so be / thou wolt with-outen slouthe
Bileue aright and knowen verray trouthe
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¶ Tiburce answerde / seistow this to me
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In soothnesse / or in dreem I herkne this
In dremes quod valerian / han we be
Vn-to this tyme / brother myn ywis
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But now at erst in trouthe our dwellyng is
How woostow this quod Tiburce / in what wyse?
Quod Valerian / that shal I thee deuyse
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¶ The Aungel of god / hath me trouthe ytaught
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Which thou shalt seen / if that thou wolt reneye
The ydoles and be clene / and elles naught
And of the myracle / of thise corones tweye
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Seint Ambrose / in his preface list to seye
Solempnely / this noble doctour deere
Commendeth hym / and seith in this manere
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