The Second Nun's Tale
Folio 197v
10 of 14 folios
O swete / and wel biloued / spouse deere
145
There is a counseil / & ȝe wolde it heere
Whicħ þt rigħt fayn / I wolde vn to ȝow seye
So that ȝe swere / ȝe shuln it nat bywreye
¶ Valerian gan faste
/ vn to hire swere
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That for no caas / ne thyng þt mygħte be
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He shulde neuere moo / bywreyen hire
And thāne at erst / to hī seide she
I haue an Aungel / whicħ þt louetħ me
That wt gret loue / where so I wake or slepe
Is redy ay / my body for to kepe
155
¶ And if that he may felen
/ out of drede
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That ȝe me touche / or loue in vileynye
He rigħt a non / wol sleen ȝow wt the dede
And in ȝoure ȝouthe / thus ȝe shulden dye
And if that ȝe / in clene loue me gye
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He wol ȝow loue as me / for ȝoure clennesse
And shewe to ȝow his ioye / & his brigħtnesse
¶ This valerian
/ corrected as god wolde
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Answerde a geyn / if I shal trosten the
Lat me that Aungel seen / & hī biholde
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And if that it / a verray Aungel be
Than wol I doon / as þu hast preyed me
And if þu loue / a nother man forsothe
Rigħt wt this swerd / than wol I slee ȝow bothe
¶ Cecile answerde a noon
/ rig
ħt in this wyse
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If that ȝow list / the Aungel shuln ȝe se
So that ȝe trowe on Crist / & ȝow baptize
Gotħ fortħ / to via apia / quod she
That fro this toun / ne stant but myles three
And to the pouere folkes
/ þt there dwellen
Folkes seems a correction from fowes .ODR
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Sey hē rigħt / as that I shal ȝow tellen
¶ Telle h
ē that I Cecile
/ ȝow to hem sente
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To shewen ȝow / the goode vrban the olde
For secree nedes / and for good entente
And whan þt ȝe / Seynt Vrban han biholde
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Telle hī tho wordes / whicħ I to ȝow tolde
And whan that he / hatħ purged ȝow fro synne
Than shuln ȝe sen þt Aungel / er we twynne
¶ This Valerian
/ is to the place goon
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And rigħt as he was taugħt / by his lernynge
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He fond this holy vrban / a noon
A mong the Seyntes buriels
/ lotynge
.i. latitante is added in interlinear position above lotynge .ODR
And he a noon / wt outen tariynge