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And suffreth vs / as for oure excercise
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With sharpe scourges / of Aduersitee
fful ofte / to be bete in sondry wise
Nat for to know oure wyl / for certes he?
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Er we were born / knew oure freletee
And for oure beste / is al his gouernance
Lat vs thanne lyue / in vertuous suffrance
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¶ But o word lordynges / herkneth er I go
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It were ful hard / to fynde now a dayes
In al a toun / Grisildis / thre or two
ffor if þat they were put to swiche assayes
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The gold of hem / hath now so badde alayes
With bras / þat thogh the coyne be fair at eye
It wolde rather / breste atwo than plye
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ffor which heere / for the wyues loue of Bathe
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Whos lyf and al hire secte god mayntene
In heigh maistrie / and elles were it scathe
I wol with lusty herte / fressh and grene
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Seyn yow a song to glade yow I wene
And lat vs stynte / of ernestful matere
Herkneth my song that seith in this manere
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¶ Lenuoy de Chaucer.
Grisilde is deed / and eek hire pacience
And bothe atones / buryed in Ytaille
ffor which I crie / in open audience
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No wedded man / so hardy be tassaille
His wyues pacience / in hope to fynde
Grisildis / for in certein he shal faille
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