Cecile may eek be seyd in this manere,
‘Wanting of blindnesse,’ for hir grete light 100
Of sapience, and for hir thewes clere;
Or elles, lo! this maydens name bright
Of ‘hevene’ and ‘leos’ comth, for which by right
Men mighte hir wel ‘the heven of peple’ calle,
Ensample of gode and wyse werkes alle. 105
For ‘leos’ ‘peple’ in English is to seye,
And right as men may in the hevene see
The sonne and mone and sterres every weye,
Right so men gostly, in this mayden free,
Seyen of feith the magnanimitee, 110
And eek the cleernesse hool of sapience,
And sondry werkes, brighte of excellence.