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¶ Yet praye ich yow / þat reden that I write
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fforyeue me / that I do no diligence
This ilke storie / subtilly tendite
ffor bothe haue I / the wordes and sentence
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Of hym / that at the Seintes reuerence
The storie wroot and folwen hir legende
And pray yow / that ye wol my werk amende
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(13) [THE TALE.]
First wolde I yow / the name of Seinte Cecilie [Interpretacio nominis Cecilie quam ponit fra|ter lacobus· Ia|nuensis in le|genda. aurea.]
Expowne / as men may in hir storie se
It is to seyn on englissh / heuenes lilie
ffor pure chastnesse / of virginitee
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Or for she whitnesse hadde of honestee
And grene of conscience / and of good fame
The swote sauour lilie / was hir name
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¶ Or Cecile is to seyn / the wey to blynde
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ffor she ensample was / by good techynge
Or ellis Cecile / as I writen fynde
Is ioyned / by a manere conioignynge
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Of heuene / and lia / and here in figurynge
The heuene is set for thoght of holynesse
And lia / for hir 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 hir thewes clere
Or ellis lo / this maydenes 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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