Note 97 — ODES, SONGS,
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St Cecilia is said to have invented the organ, though it is not known when or how she came by this credit. Chaucer introduces her as performing upon that instrument:
"And while that the organes maden melodie, To God alone thus in her heart sung she."
The descent of the angel we have already mentioned. She thus announces this celestial attendant to her husband:
I have an angel which that loveth me; That with great love, wher so I wake or slepe, Is ready aye my body for to kepe." The Second Nonne's Tale.