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¶ Arrayed was / toward hir mariage
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This fresshe mayde / ful of gemmes clere
Hir brother / which þat seuen yeer was of age
Arrayed eek ful fressh in his manere
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And thus in gret noblesse / and with glad cheere
Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney
ffro day to day / they ryden in hir wey
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¶ Explicit quarta pars.
¶ Incipit pars qinta / ¶ The Cler[kes Tale] [folio 185a]
Among al this / after his wikke vsage
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This Markys yet his wif to tempte moore
To the outreste preue / of hir corage
ffully to han / experience and loore
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If that she were / as stedefast as bifore
He on a day / in open audience
fful boystously / hath seyd hire this sentence
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¶ Certes Grisilde / I hadde ynogh plesance
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To han yow to my wyf / for youre goodnesse
And for youre trouthe / and for youre obeysance
Noght for youre lynage / ne for youre richesse
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But now knowe I / in verray sothfastnesse
That in gret lordshipe / if I wel auyse
Ther is gret seruitute / in sondry wyse
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¶ I may nat do / as euery Plowman may
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My peple / me constreyneth for to take
Another wyf / and cryen day by day
And eek the pope / rancour for to slake
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Consenteth it that dar I vndertake
And trewely / thus muche I wol yow seye
My newe wif / is comynge by the weye
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¶ Be strong of herte / and voyde anon hir place
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And thilke dowere / þat ye broghten me
Tak it agayn / I graunte it of my grace
