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¶ The palm of martirdom / for to receyue [folio 193a]
Seinte Cecile / fulfild of goddes yifte
The world / and eek hire chambre / gan she weyue
Witnesse / Tyburces / and Cecilies shrifte
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To whiche / god of his bountee wolde shifte
Corones two / of floures wel smellynge
And made his Angel / hem the corones brynge
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The mayde hath broght men / to blisse aboue
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The world hath wist / what it is worth certeyn
Deuocion of Chastitee to loue
Tho shewed hym Cecile / al open and pleyn
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That alle ydoles / nys but a thyng in veyn
ffor they been dombe / and therto they been deue
And charged hym / hise ydoles for to leue
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Who so / that troweth nat this / a beest he is
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Quod tho Tiburce / if þat I shal nat lye
And she gan kisse his brest. that herde this
And was ful glad / he koude trouthe espye
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This day / I take thee / for myn Allye
Seyde this blisful / faire mayde deere
And after that. she seyde as ye may heere
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¶ Lo / right so / as the loue of Crist quod she
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Made me thy brotheres wyf/. right in that wise
Anon for myn Allyee / heer take I thee
Syn that thou wolt thyne ydoles despise
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Go with thy brother now / and thee baptise
And make thee clene / so þat thou mowe biholde
The Angeles face / of which thy brother tolde
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