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Valirian goþ home and fint Cecilie
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wiþinne his chambre with an aungel stonde /
This aungel had of Roses and of lilie
Corounes tuo þe which he bar in honde
And first to Cecilie as I vnderstonde [folio 165a]
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he ȝaf þat oon and after can he take /
That oþer to valerian hir make
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Wiþ body clene and wiþ vnwemmed þought
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kepeþ ay wel þese corounes þre
Fro paradys to ȝou I haue hem brought
Ne neuer moo ne schul þey roten be
Ne leese here soote sauour trusteþ me
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Ne neuer wight schal seen hem wiþ his ye
But/ he be chast and hate vilonye
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And þou valirian for þou so soone
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Assentedist to good counseil also
Say what þe list and þou schalt haue þi boone
I haue a broþer quod Valirian þo
That in þis world I loue no man so
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I pray ȝow þat my broþer may haue grace
To knowe þe trouþe as I doo in þis place
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The aungel sayde god liketh þy request
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And boþe with þe palme of martirdom
Ȝe schullen come vnto his blisful feste /
And with þat word tiburce his broþer com
And whan þat he þe sauour vndernom
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which þat þe roses and þe lilies cast
wiþinne hir hert/ he gan to wondre fast /
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