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408 In a chaysel smock she lay, And in a mantle of douay ; Of the brightness of her face All about shone the place,— Herbs he took in an herber , And stamped them in a mortar, And wrung it in a box: After, he took virgin wox , And made a puppet of the queen, His art-table he 'gan unwene ; The queen's name in the wax he wrote, While it was some deal hot: In a bed he did dight, All about with candle-light, And spread thereon of the herbis: Thus charmed Nectanabus. The lady in her bed lay About midnight, ere the day, Whiles he made conjuring, She saw fly in her metyng She thought a dragon light; To her chamber he made his flight, In he came to her bower And crept under her coverture."