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¶ To euery wight she woxen is so deere [//Atque apud omnes supra fidem cara & venera|bilis facta est/ vix quod hijs ipsis qui illius originem nouerant/ persuaderi posset Ianicule natam esse tantus vite / tantus morum decor ea verborum grauitas atque dulcedo quibus omnium animos nexu sibi magni amoris astrinxerat/]
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And worshipful / þat folk ther she was bore
That from hir burthe / knewe hire yeer by yeere
Vnnethe trowed they / but dorste han swore
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That to Ianicle / of which I spak bifore
She doghter were / for as by coniecture
Hem thoughte / she was another creature
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¶ ffor thogh þat euere / vertuous was she
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She was encressed / in swich excellence
Of thewes goode / yset in heigh bountee
And so discreet and fair of eloquence
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So benygne / and so digne of reuerence
And koude so / the peples herte embrace
That ech hir louede / that looked on hir face
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[N [Rats.] [folio 179b] ]oght oonly / of Saluce in the town
Publissed was / the bountee of hir name
But eek bisyde / in many a Regioun
If oon seyde wel / another seyde the same
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So spradde / of hir heighe bountee the fame
That men and wommen / as wel yonge as olde
Goon to Saluce / on hire to biholde
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¶ Thus Walter lowely / nay but roially [¶ Sic Walterus humili quidem set insigni ac prospero matrimonio honestatis summa dei in pace &cetera.]
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Wedded / with fortunat honestetee
In goddes pees / lyueth ful esily
At hom / and outward grace ynow hath he
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And for he saugh / þat vnder lowe degree [¶ Quodque eximiam virtutem tanta sub inopia latitantem tam perspicaciter deprendisset vulgo prudentissimus habebatur.]
Was ofte vertu hyd / the peple hym helde
A prudent man / and that is seyn ful selde
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¶ Noght oonly / this Grisildis / thurgh hir wit [Neque vero solers sponsa muliebria tantum ac do|mestica / set vbi res posceret publica eciam subibat officia.]
Koude al the feet of wifly humblenesse
But eek whan þat the cas required it
The commune profit koude she redresse
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