That if yow list I shal wel haue my loue
¶ Thy temple wol I worshipe eueremo
And on thyn Auter / where I ride or go
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I wol doon sacrifice / and fires beete
And if ye wol nat so / my lady sweete
Thanne preye I thee / tomorwe / with a spere
That Arcita / me thurgh the herte bere
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Thanne rekke I noght / whan I haue lost my lyf
Though that Arcita / wynne hire to his wyf
This is theffect and ende of my preyere
Yif me my loue / thow blisful lady deere
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¶ Whan the orison / was doon of Palamon
His sacrifice he dide / and that anon
fful pitously / with alle circumstance
Al telle I noght as now / his obseruance
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But atte laste / the statue of Venus shook /
And made a signe / wher by þat he took
That his preyere / accepted was that day
ffor thogh the signe / shewed a delay
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Yet wiste he wel / þat graunted was his boone
And with glad herte / he wente hym hoom ful soone
The thridde houre in-equal that Palamon
Bigan / to Venus temple for to gon
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Vp roos the sonne / and vp roos Emelye
And to the temple of Dyane gan hye
Hir maydens / þat she thider with hire ladde
fful redily / with hem the fyr they ladde
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Thencens / the clothes / and the remenant al
That to the sacrifice / longen shal
The hornes fulle of Meeth / as was the gyse [folio 29a]
Ther lakked noght to doon hir sacrifise
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¶ Smokynge the temple / ful of clothes faire
This Emelye / with herte debonaire
Hir body wessh / with water of a welle
But hou she dide hir ryte / I dar nat telle
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But it be / any thing in general
