| | I weddid be that was ful of yong age | |
| | Whiche that y clepid was valerian | |
| 130 | And day was come of her mariage | |
| | She ful deuout and humbil in her corage | |
| | Vnder her Robe of gold that sat ful feyre | |
| | Hadde next her flessh I clad her in an heir | |
| | And whyle that the Organs made melody | |
| 135 | To god aboue thus in her herte song she | |
| | O lord my body and eek my soule gy | |
| | Vnwemmyd lest I confoundid be | |
| | And for his loue that vp on the tre | |
| | Euery seconde and thridde day she fast | |
| 140 | Ay biddynge in her orisons ful fast | |
| | The nyght cam and to bedde muste she goon | |
| | With her husbonde as it was the manere | |
| | And priuely she sayde to hym anoon | |
| | O swete and welbelouyd spouse dere | |
| 145 | Ther is a counsel and ye wol it here | |
| | Whiche that right fayn I wolde to you seye | |
| | So that ye swere ye wil it not bewrey | |
| | Valerian gan faste to her swere | |
| | That for no caas ne thing that might be | |
| 150 | He sholde neuer to none bewreyen her | |
| | And than at erst to hym sayde she | |
| | I haue an aungel whiche that louyth me | |
| | That with gret loue wher so I wake or slepe | |
| | Is redy ay my body forto kepe | |
| 155 | And yf that he may felen out of drede | |
| | That ye me touche or loue in vilony | |