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Ther nas discord / rancour / ne heuynesse
In al that land / þat she ne koude apese
And wisly / brynge hem alle in reste and ese
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¶ Thogh þat hir housbond absent were / anon [¶ viro absente lites patrie / nobilium discordias dirimens atque componens tam grauibus responsis / tantaque maturi|tate & Iudicij equitate vt omnes ad salutem publicam demissam celo feminam predicarent.]
If gentil men / or othere of hir contree
Were wrothe / she wolde bryngen hem aton
So wise / and rype wordes hadde she
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And Iuggementz / of so greet equytee
That she from heuene sent was / as men wende
Peple to saue / and euery wrong tamende
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¶ Nat longe tyme after that this Grisild
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Was ywedded / she a doghter hath ybore
Al hadde hir leuere / haue had a knaue child
Glad was the Markys / and the folk ther fore
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ffor thogh a mayde child / coome al bifore
She may / vn to a knaue child atteyne
By liklyhede / syn she nys nat bareyne
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Explicit secunda pars.
Incipit/ pars tercia.
THer fil / as it bifalleth tymes mo [ [folio 180a] ¶ cepit [ut fit interdum Walterum cum] iam [ablactata esset infantula] mirabilis q[uedam quam laudabilis] cupiditas sat[is expertam care fidem] coniugis experien[di alcius & iterum] atque iterum retem[ptandi].]
Whan þat this child / hath souked but a throwe
This Markys / in his herte longeth so
To tempte his wyf/ hir sadnesse for to knowe
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That he ne myghte / out of his herte throwe
This merueilous desir / his wyf tassaye
Nedelees god woot he thoghte hire for tafraye
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¶ He hadde assayed hire / ynow bifore
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And fond hir euere good / what neded it
Hir for to tempte / and alwey moore & moore
Thogh som men preyse it for a subtil wit
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But as for me / I seye þat yuele it sit
Tassaye a wyf / whan þat it is no nede
And putten hire / in angwyssh and in drede
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