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¶ And seyde / I wondre this tyme of the yere [folio 169a]
Whennes / that swote sauour / cometh so
Of Rose and lilies / that I smelle heere
ffor thogh I hadde hem / in myne handes two
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The sauour myghte in me / no depper go
The swete smel / that 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 / þat shynen clere
Which þat thyne eyen / han no myght to se
And as thow smellest hem / thurgh my prayere
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So shaltow seen hem / leue brother deere
If it so be / thow wolt/ with outen slouthe
Bileue aright and knowen verray trouthe
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¶ Tiburce answerde / seystow 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 ywys
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But now at erst/ in trouthe oure dwellyng is
How wostow this quod Tiburce / in what wyse
Quod Valerian / that shal I thee deuyse
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¶ The Aungel of god / hath me the trouthe ytaught
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Which thow shalt seen / if that thow wolt reneye
The ydoles / and be clene / and ellis 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 it and seith in this manere
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