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Apollonius of Tyre
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1509[Qualiter Thaisis a lupanari virgo liberata, inter sacras mulieres hospicium habens, sciencias quibus edocta fuit nobiles regni puellas ibidem edocebat.]
How Thaisis, freed a virgin from the brothel and finding hospitality among holy women, taught the noble young women of the kingdom there those skills which she had been taught.
1510 He hath hire fro the bordel take,
1511Bot that was noght for goddes sake,
1512Bot for the lucre, as sche him tolde.
1513Now comen tho that comen wolde
1514Of wommen in her lusty youthe,
1515To hiere and se what thing sche couthe:
1516Sche can the wisdom of a clerk,
1517Sche can of every lusti werk
1518Which to a gentil womman longeth,
1519And some of hem sche underfongeth
1520To the Citole and to the Harpe,
1521And whom it liketh forto carpe
1522Proverbes and demandes slyhe,
1523An other such thei nevere syhe,
1524Which that science so wel tawhte:
1525Wherof sche grete yiftes cawhte,
1526That sche to Leonin hath wonne;
1527And thus hire name is so begonne
1528Of sondri thinges that she techeth,
1529That al the lond unto hir secheth
1530Of yonge wommen forto liere.