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Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
Virginibus Puerisque
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O YOUNGË 1 freshë folkës, he or she, | |
In which that love upgroweth with your age, | |
Repaireth home from worldly vanity, | |
And of your heart upcasteth the visage | |
To thilkë God, that after His image | 5 |
You made, and thinketh all nis 2 but a fair, | |
This world that passeth soon, as flowrës fair. | |
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And loveth Him the which that, right for love, | |
Upon a cross, our soulës for to buy, | |
First starf 3 and rose, and sits in heaven above; | 10 |
For He nil falsen no wight, dare I say, | |
That will His heart all wholly on Him lay; | |
And since He best to love is, and most meek, | |
What needeth feigned lovës for to seek? | |