[6-text p 530]
(12)
Ȝit preye ych 1ȝow þat1 [[1_1 corrected]]
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ffor-ȝeue me that I do / no diligence
This ilke story / subtily tendite
ffor bothe haue I / the wordis & the sentence
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Of hym that at the / seyntis reuerence
The storye wrot / & folwe hire legende
And preye ȝow that ȝe / wele myn werk amende [leaf 374 is out of the Camb. MS.]
(13) [THE TALE.]
[ffyrst wolle I you þe name of Seynt Cecile [Sloane MS 1685 folio 159a]
Expoune as men may in hir stories see
hit ys to say on englysshe heuen lilie
Pure Chastnesse of Virginite
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Or for she wytnesse hade of honeste
Of greue of conscience and of gode fame
The swoote sauoure lylie was hir name
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Other / Cecile ys to say þe wey to blynde
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ffor she ensample was by god techynge
Or elles Ceciles as I wryten fynde
Is ioyned by manere comoynynge
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Of heuen and lya and hiȝer/ in figurynge
þe heuen ys. sette for þouȝt of holynesse
And lya for hir lastynge besynesse
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Cecile may eke be sayde in þis manere
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Wantynge hir blynednesse for hir grete liȝt
Of sapience for hir/ thewes clere
Or elles lo þis maydons name briȝt
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Of/ heuen and loos comethe for whiche be riȝt
Men myȝt þe heuen of peple hir/ calle
Ensample of god and wyse werkes with alle
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