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2 Syþen in þat spote hit fro me sprange,
Ofte haf I wayted, wyschande þat wele
Þat wont watӡ whyle deuoyde my wrange, 15
& heuen my happe & al my hele, Þat dotӡ bot þrych my hert þrange,
My breste in bale hot bolne & bele.
Ӡet þoӡt me neuer so swete a sange
As stylle stounde let to me stele; 20
Forsoþe þer fleten to me fele,
To þenke hir color so clad in clot.
O moul, þou marreӡ a myry iuele,
My priuy perle wythouten spotte!

3 Þat spot of spyseӡ [mo]t nedeӡ sprede, 25
Þer such rycheӡ to rot is runne;
Blomeӡ blayke & blwe & rede
Þer schyneӡ ful schyr agayn þe sunne;
Flor & fryte may not be fede
Þer hit doun drof in moldeӡ dunne; 30
For vch gresse mot grow of grayneӡ dede,
No whete were elleӡ to woneӡ wonne;
Of goud vche goude is ay bygonne;
So semly a sede moӡt fayly not,
Þat spry[n]gande spyceӡ vp ne sponne 35
Of þat precios perle wythouten spotte.

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17 hert[e] G. (see l. 51, and supra p. xliii.). -- 23 mele, M.,
G.; iuele, MS., F. -- 24 spot, G. -- 25 myӡt, M., G.; blotted
in MS. -- 26 runnen, MS. M.; runne, G. -- 35 spryngande,
M., G. -- 36 spot, G.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Pearl: A Middle English Poem. Contributors: Charles G. Osgood Jr. - editor. Publisher: D.C. Heath. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1906. Page Number: 2.
    
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