From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Second Nun's Tale, lines 218-231

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Valerian is baptized

From The Canterbury Tales:
The Second Nun's Tale
lines 218-231: Valerian meets the angel

	Valerian gooth hoom, and fynt Cecile
	Withinne his chambre with an aungel stonde.
220	This aungel hadde of roses and of lilie
	Corones two, the whiche he bar in honde;
	And first to Cecile, as I understonde,
	He yaf that oon, and after gan he take
	That oother to Valerian hir make.

	Valerian, going home, Cecilia found
	In chamber, wherein did an angel stand;
220	This angel had two coronals, woven round
	Of roses and of lilies, in his hand;
	And to Cecilia, as I understand,
	He gave the one, and gave the other straight
	Unto this said Valerian, her mate.

225 "With body clene and with unwemmed thoght

Kepeth ay wel thise corones," quod he,

"Fro Paradys to yow have I hem broght,

Ne nevere mo ne shal they roten bee,

Ne lese hir soote savour, trusteth me,

230 Ne nevere wight shal seen hem with his eye

But he be chaast and hate vileynye.

225 "With body clean and with unsullied thought

Keep well these crowns for ever," then said he;

"To you from Paradise have I them brought,

Nor ever shall they fade or withered be,

Nor lose their perfume sweet, so you trust me;

230 And never man shall see them with his eye,

Save he be chaste and hate depravity.

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From The Second Nun's Tale, lines 232-287:
Valerian's brother Tibertius is christianized too