| Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903. | | | | Virginibus Puerisque | | By Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400) |
| | | 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? | |
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