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¶ No wonder is / thogh þat she were astoned [¶ Et insolito tanti hospitis aduentu stupidam inuenit/]
To seen so greet a gest come in to place
She neuere was / to swiche gestes woned
ffor which she looked / with ful pale face
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But shortly / forth this matere for to chace
Thise arn the wordes / þat this Markys sayde
To this benygne / verray feithful mayde
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[Gri [Rats.] [folio 178b] ]silde he seyde / ye shal wel vnderstonde [¶ Et patri tuo placet inquid & michi vt vxor mea sis / et credo idipsum tibi placeat / set habeo ex te querere &cetera.]
It liketh to youre fader / and to me
That I yow wedde / and eek it may so stonde
As I suppose / ye wol þat it so be
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But thise demandes / aske I first quod he
That sith it shal be doon / in hastif wyse
Wol ye assente / or ellis yow auyse
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¶ I sey this / be ye redy / with good herte
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To al my lust and þat I frely may
As me best thynketh / do yow laughe or smerte
And neuere ye to grucche it/ nyght ne day
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And eek whan I sey ye / ne sey nat nay
Neither by word / ne frownyng contenance [¶ Sine vlla frontis aut verbi impugnacione.]
Swere this / and heere I swere oure alliance
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¶ Wondrynge vp on this word / quakyng for drede [¶ Nil ego vnquam sciens nedum faciam set eciam cogitabo quod contra animum tuum sit/ nec tu aliquid facies / et si me mori iusseris quod moleste feram.]
She seyde lord / vndigne / or vnworthy
I am / to thilke honour / þat ye me bede
But as ye wol your self/ right so wol I
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And heere I swere / that neuere willyngly
In werk ne thoght I nel yow disobeye
ffor to be deed / thogh me were looth to deye
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¶ This is ynough / Grisilde myn quod he
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And forth he goth / with a ful sobre cheere
Out at the dore / and after that cam she
And to the peple / he seyde in this manere
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