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To stynte rancour / and dissencion
Bitwix his peple and hym / thus seyde the bulle
The which / they han publissed at the fulle
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¶ The rude peple / as it no wonder is
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Wenden ful wel / þat it hadde ben right so
But whan thise tidynges / cam to Grisildis
I deme / that hir herte was ful wo
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But she / ylike sad for euere mo
Disposed was / this humble creature
Thaduersitee of ffortune / al tendure
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¶ Abidynge euere / his lust and his plesance [folio 184b]
To whom þat she was yeuen / herte and al
As to hire / verray worldly suffisance
But shortly / if this storie I tellen shal
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This Markys / writen hath in special
A lettre / in which / he sheweth his entente
And secrely / he to Boloigne it sente
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¶ To the Erl of Pavyk which þat hadde tho
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Wedded his suster / prayde he specially
To bryngen hom agayn / his children two
In honurable estat al openly
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But o thyng he hym prayde outrely
That he to no wight th[o]gh men wolde enquere
Sholde nat tellen / whos children þat they were
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¶ But seye / the mayden sholde ywedded be
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Vn to the Markys of Saluce / anon
And as this Erl was prayd / so dide he
ffor at day set he on his wey is gon
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Toward Saluce / and lordes many oon
In riche array / this mayden for to gyde
Hir yonge brother / ridyng hir bisyde
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