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Of his spousaille / as soone as euere I may
ffor yet alwey / the peple som what dredde
Lest that the Markys / no wyf wolde wedde
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¶ He graunted hem a day / swich as hym leste
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On which / he wolde be wedded sikerly
And seyde / he dide al this at hir requeste
And they / with humble entente buxomly
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Knelynge vp on hir knees / ful reuerently
Hym thanken alle / and thus they han an ende
Of hir entente / and hom agayn they wende
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And her vp on / he to his officers
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Comaundeth / for the feste to purueye
And to his pryuee knyghtes and Squyers
Swich charge yaf / as hym liste on hem leye
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And they / to his comandement obeye
And ech of hem / dooth al his diligence
To doon / vn-to the feste reuerence
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¶ Explicit prima pars.
¶ Incipit pars secunda.
NOght fer / fro thilke paleys honurable
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Wher as this Markys / shoope his mariage
Ther stood a Throope / of site delitable
In which þat poure folk / of that village
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Hadden hir bestes / and hir herbergage
And of hir labour / token hir sustenance
After that the erthe / yaf hem habundance
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[A [Rats.] [folio 176b] ]mong this poure folk / ther dwelte a man
Which þat was holden / pourest of hem alle
But heighe god / som tyme senden kan
His grace / in to a litel Oxes Stalle
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Ianicula / men of that Throope hym calle
A doghter hadde he / fair ynogh to sighte
And Grisildis / this yonge mayden highte
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