[6-text p 413]
If that thou vouche sauf what so bityde
Thy doghter wol I take / er þat I wende
As for my wyf vn-to hir lyues ende
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Thou louest me / I woot it wel certeyn
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And art my feithful / lige man ybore
And all that/ liketh me / I dar wel seyn
It liketh thee / and specially therfore
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Tel me that poynt / that I haue seyd bifore
If that thou wolt vn-to that purpos drawe
To take me / as for thy sone in lawe
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¶ This sodeyn cas / this man astonyed so
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That reed he wax abayst and al quakyng
He stood / vnnethes seyde he wordes mo
But oonly thus / lord quod he / my willynge?
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Is as ye wole / ne ayeyns / youre likynge?
I wol no thyng ye be my lord so deere
Right as yow lust gouerneth this mateere
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¶ Yet wol I / quod this Markys softely [folio 95b]
That in thy chambre / I. and thou / and she
Haue a collacion / and wostow why?
ffor I wol axe / if it hire wille be
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To be my wyf / and reule hire after me
And al this shal be doon / in thy presence
I wol noght speke / out of thyn Audience
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¶ And in the chambre / whil they were aboute
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Hir tretys / which as ye shal after heere
The peple cam / vn-to the hous with oute
And wondred hem / in how honeste manere
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And tentifly / she kepte hir fader deere
But outrely / Grisildis wondre myghte
ffor neuere erst ne saugh she swich a sighte
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