[6-text p 435]
Ay ful of clappyng deere ynow a Iane
Youre doom is fals / youre constance yuele preueth
A ful greet fool is he / that on yow leueth
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¶ Thus seyden sadde folk/ in that Citee
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Whan that the peple / gazed vp and doun
ffor they were glad / right for the noueltee
To han / a newe lady / of hir town
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Namoore of this / make I now mencioun
But to Grisilde agayn / wol I me dresse
And telle hir constance / and hir bisynesse
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¶ fful bisy was Grisilde / in euery thyng
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That to the feste / was apertinent
Right noght was she abayst of hir clothyng
Thogh it were rude / and somdel eek to-rent
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But with glad cheere / to the yate is she went
With oother folk/ to greete the Markysesse
And after that/ dooth forth hir bisynesse
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¶ With so glad cheere / his gestes she receyueth
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And so konnyngly / euerich in his degree
That no defaute / no man aparceyueth
But ay they wondren / what she myghte be
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That in so poure array / was for to se
And koude swich honour / and reuerence
And worthily / they preysen hir prudence
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¶ In al this mene while / she ne stente
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This mayde / and eek hir brother to commende
With al hir herte / in ful benygne entente
So wel / þat no man koude hir prys amende
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But at the laste / whan þat thise lordes wende
To sitten doun to mete / he gan to calle
Grisilde / as she was bisy in his halle
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