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<Text id=Pearl>
<Title>Pearl</Title>
<Edition>edited by E. V. Gordon; completed by Ida L. Gordon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.</Edition>
<Date>1400</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>Pearl1</locdoc><milestone n=1>
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<l> Perle, pleasaunte to prynces paye</l>
<l>To clanly clos in golde so clere,</l>
<l>Oute of oryent, I hardyly saye,</l>
<l>Ne proued I neuer her precios pere.</l>
<l>So rounde, so reken in vche araye,</l>
<l>So smal, so smo&t;e her syde&y; were,</l>
<l>Quere-so-euer I jugged gemme&y; gaye,</l>
<l>I sette hyr sengeley in synglere.</l>
<l>Allas! I leste hyr in on erbere;</l>
<l>&T;ur&y; gresse to grounde hit fro me yot.</l>
<l>I dewyne, fordolked of luf-daungere</l>
<l>Of &t;at pryuy perle wythouten spot.</l>
</div1><div1>
<l>Sy&t;en in &t;at spote hit fro me sprange,</l>
<l>Ofte haf I wayted, wyschande &t;at wele,</l>
<l>&T;at wont wat&y; whyle deuoyde my wrange</l>
<l>And heuen my happe and al my hele.</l>
<l>&T;at dot&y; bot &t;rych my hert . . .
