[6-text p 435]
Ay ful of clappyng deere ynogh a Iane
Youre doom is fals / youre constance yuele preeueth
A ful greet fool / is he / þat on yow leeueth
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Thus seyden sadde folk/ in that Citee
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Whan that the peple / gazed vp and doun
ffor they were glad / right for the noueltee
To han / a newe lady of hir toun
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Namoore of this / make I now mencioun
But to Grisilde agayn / wol I me dresse
And telle / hir constance / and hir bisynesse
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¶ fful bisy was Grisilde / in euery thyng
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That to the feeste / was apertinent
Right noght was she abayst of hire clothyng
Thogh it were rude / and somdeel eek to-rent
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But with glad cheere / to the yate is she went
With oother folk to greete the Markysesse
And after that dooth forth hire bisynesse
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With so glad chiere / hise gestes she receyueth
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And so konnyngly / euerich in his degree
That no defaute / no man aperceyueth
But ay they wondren / what she myghte bee
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That in so poure array was for to see
And koude / swich honour and reuerence
And worthily / they preisen hire prudence
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In al this meene while / she ne stente [folio 104a]
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This mayde / and eek hir brother to commende
With al hir herte / in ful benyngne entente
So wel / þat no man koude hir pris amende
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But atte laste / whan þat thise lordes wende
To sitten doun to mete / he gan to calle
Grisilde / as she was bisy in his halle
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