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  Prey we to here with gret honour, She that bar the blyssid flowr, She be our helpe and our socour And schyld us fro the fyndes bond.

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O thyng is to man so dere As wommanys love in gode manere. A gode womman is mannys blys, There here love right and stedfast is. There is no solas under hevene, Of alle that a man may nevene, That shuld a man do so moche glew As a gode womman that loveth trew. Ne derer is none in Goddys hurde Than a chaste womman with lovely worde.

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OR trewthe telleth that loue &bull; is triacle of hevene; May no synne be on him sene &bull; that useth that spise, And alle his werkes he wrouȝte &bull; with loue as him liste; And lered it Moises for the levest thing &bull; and moste like to heuene,

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