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The minister and norice unto vices nurse	A
Which that men call in English idleness	B
The porter at the gate is of delices delights	C
T'eschew and by her contrar' her oppress	D
That is to say by lawful business occupation activity	E
Well oughte we to do our all intent apply ourselves	F
Lest that the fiend through idleness us hent seize	G
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For he that with his thousand cordes sly	H
Continually us waiteth to beclap entangle bind	I
When he may man in idleness espy	E
He can so lightly catch him in his trap	J
Till that a man be hent right by the lappe seize hem	K
He is not ware the fiend hath him in hand	L
Well ought we work and idleness withstand	L
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And though men dreaded never for to die	H
Yet see men well by reason doubteless	G
That idleness is root of sluggardy	H
Of which there cometh never good increase	G
And see that sloth them holdeth in a leas leash lt gt	H
Only to sleep and for to eat and drink	M
And to devouren all that others swink labour	N
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And for to put us from such idleness	G
That cause is of so great confusion	O
I have here done my faithful business	G
After the Legend in translation	O
Right of thy glorious life and passion	O
Thou with thy garland wrought of rose and lily	E
Thee mean I maid and martyr Saint Cecilie	E
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And thou thou art the flow'r of virgins all	E
Of whom that Bernard list so well to write lt gt	H
To thee at my beginning first I call	E
Thou comfort of us wretches do me indite	H
Thy maiden's death that won through her merite	H
Th' eternal life and o'er the fiend victory	E
As man may after readen in her story	E
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Thou maid and mother daughter of thy Son	O
Thou well of mercy sinful soules' cure	P
In whom that God of bounte chose to won dwell	E
Thou humble and high o'er every creature	Q
Thou nobilest so far forth our nature as far as our nature admits	G
That no disdain the Maker had of kind nature	Q
His Son in blood and flesh to clothe and wind wrap	J
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Within the cloister of thy blissful sides	G
Took manne's shape th' eternal love and peace	G
That of the trine compass Lord and guide is the trinity	E
Whom earth and sea and heav'n out of release unceasingly	E
Aye hery and thou Virgin wemmeless forever praise immaculate	H
Bare of thy body and dweltest maiden pure	P
The Creator of every creature	Q
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Assembled is in thee magnificence lt gt	H
With mercy goodness and with such pity	H
That thou that art the sun of excellence	G
Not only helpest them that pray to thee	H
But oftentime of thy benignity	H
Full freely ere that men thine help beseech	R
Thou go'st before and art their lives' leech healer saviour	Q
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Now help thou meek and blissful faire maid	H
Me flemed wretch in this desert of gall banished outcast	H
Think on the woman Cananee that said	H
That whelpes eat some of the crumbes all	E
That from their Lorde's table be y fall lt gt	H
And though that I unworthy son of Eve lt gt	H
Be sinful yet accepte my believe faith	S
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And for that faith is dead withoute werkes	G
For to worke give me wit and space	G
That I be quit from thennes that most derk is freed from the most	H
O thou that art so fair and full of grace dark place Hell	E
Be thou mine advocate in that high place	G
Where as withouten end is sung Osanne	O
Thou Christe's mother daughter dear of Anne	O
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And of thy light my soul in prison light	H
That troubled is by the contagion	O
Of my body and also by the weight	H
Of earthly lust and false affection	O
O hav'n of refuge O salvation	O
Of them that be in sorrow and distress	G
Now help for to my work I will me dress	G
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Yet pray I you that reade what I write lt gt	H
Forgive me that I do no diligence	G
This ilke story subtilly t' indite same	T
For both have I the wordes and sentence	G
Of him that at the sainte's reverence	G
The story wrote and follow her legend	H
And pray you that you will my work amend	H
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First will I you the name of Saint Cecilie	E
Expound as men may in her story see	G
It is to say in English Heaven's lily lt gt	H
For pure chasteness of virginity	H
Or for she whiteness had of honesty purity	H
And green of conscience and of good fame	T
The sweete savour Lilie was her name	T
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Or Cecilie is to say the way of blind lt gt	H
For she example was by good teaching	U
Or else Cecilie as I written find	H
Is joined by a manner conjoining	U
Of heaven and Lia lt gt and herein figuring	U
The heaven is set for thought of holiness	G
And Lia for her lasting business	G
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Cecilie may eke be said in this mannere	Q
Wanting of blindness for her greate light	H
Of sapience and for her thewes clear qualities	G
Or elles lo this maiden's name bright	H
Of heaven and Leos lt gt comes for which by right	H
Men might her well the heaven of people call	E
Example of good and wise workes all	E
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For Leos people in English is to say	G
And right as men may in the heaven see	H
The sun and moon and starres every way	G
Right so men ghostly in this maiden free spiritually	H
Sawen of faith the magnanimity	H
And eke the clearness whole of sapience	H
And sundry workes bright of excellence	H
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And right so as these philosophers write	H
That heav'n is swift and round and eke burning	U
Right so was faire Cecilie the white	H
Full swift and busy in every good working	U
And round and whole in good persevering lt gt	H
And burning ever in charity full bright	H
Now have I you declared what she hight why she had her name	T
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This maiden bright Cecile as her life saith	S
Was come of Romans and of noble kind	H
And from her cradle foster'd in the faith	S
Of Christ and bare his Gospel in her mind	H
She never ceased as I written find	H
Of her prayere and God to love and dread	H
Beseeching him to keep her maidenhead	H
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And when this maiden should unto a man	O
Y wedded be that was full young of age	V
Which that y called was Valerian	O
And come was the day of marriage	W
She full devout and humble in her corage heart	H
Under her robe of gold that sat full fair	Q
Had next her flesh y clad her in an hair garment of hair cloth	S
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And while the organs made melody	H
To God alone thus in her heart sang she	H
'O Lord my soul and eke my body gie guide	H
Unwemmed lest that I confounded be ' unblemished	H
And for his love that died upon the tree	H
Every second or third day she fast'	H
Aye bidding in her orisons full fast praying	U
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The night came and to bedde must she gon	O
With her husband as it is the mannere	H
And privily she said to him anon	O
'O sweet and well beloved spouse dear	H
There is a counsel an' ye will it hear secret if	X
Which that right fain I would unto you say	H
So that ye swear ye will it not bewray ' betray	H
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Valerian gan fast unto her swear	H
That for no case nor thing that mighte be	H
He never should to none bewrayen her	H
And then at erst thus to him saide she for the first time	Y
'I have an angel which that loveth me	H
That with great love whether I wake or sleep	Z
Is ready aye my body for to keep	Z
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'And if that he may feelen out of dread without doubt	H
That ye me touch or love in villainy	O
He right anon will slay you with the deed	H
And in your youthe thus ye shoulde die	H
And if that ye in cleane love me gie ' guide	H
He will you love as me for your cleanness	H
And shew to you his joy and his brightness '	-
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Valerian corrected as God w	-

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