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[Kinkead Brueggeman]

Lay a stounde. The goddes, whiche hir pleigntes herde And syhe hou
wofully sche ferde, Hire lif thei toke awey anon, And schopen
hire into a Ston After the forme of hire ymage Of bodi bothe and of
visage. And for the merveile of this thing
Unto the place cam the king 3640 And ek the queene and manye mo; And
whan thei wisten it was so, As I have told it heir above, Hou that Iphis
was ded for love, Of that he hadde be refused, Thei hielden

alle men excused And wondren upon the vengance. And forto kepe in
remembrance, This faire ymage mayden liche With compaignie noble and
riche 3650 With torche and gret sollempnite. To Salamyne the Cite Thei
lede, and carie forth withal The dede corps, and sein it schal Beside
thilke ymage have His sepulture and be begrave: This corps and this
ymage thus Into the Cite to Venus, Wher that goddesse hire temple hadde,
Togedre
bothe tuo thei ladde. 3660 This ilke ymage
as for miracle Was set upon an hyh pinacle, That alle men it mihte
knowe, And under tht thei maden lowe A tumbe riche for the nones Of
marbre and ek of jaspre stones, Wherin this Iphis
was beloken, That evermor it schal be spoken. And for men schal
the sothe wite, Thei have here epitaphe write, 3670 As thing which
scholde abide stable: The lettres graven in a table Of marbre were and
seiden this: "Hier lith, which slowh himself, Iphis, For love of
Araxarathen: And in ensample of tho wommen, That soffren men to deie so,
Hire forme a man mai sen also, Hou it is torned fleissh and bon Into the
figure of a Ston: 3680 He was to neysshe and sche to hard. Be war

forthi hierafterward; Ye men and wommen bothe tuo, Ensampleth you of
that was tho: Lo thus, mi Sone, as I thee seie, It grieveth be diverse
weie In desepeir a man
to falle, Which is the laste branche of alle Of Slouthe,

as thou hast herd devise. Wherof that thou thiself avise 3690 Good is,
er that thou be deceived, Wher that the grace of
hope is weyved. Mi fader, hou so that it stonde, Now have I pleinly
understonde Of S
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