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Chaucer, Geoffrey and Purves, David Laing
Temple devout! where God chose his wonning,* *abode From which, these misbeliev’d deprived be, To you my soule penitent I bring; Receive me, for I can no farther flee. With thornes venomous, O Heaven’s Queen! For which the earth accursed was full yore, I am so wounded, as ye may well see, That I am lost almost, it smart so sore!