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¶ Grisilde quod he / as it were in his pley [folio 188b]
How liketh thee my wyf / and hir beautee
Right wel quod she my lord / for in good fey
A fairer / saw I neuere noon / than she
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I prey to god / yeue hire prosperitee
And so hope I / þat he wol to yow sende
Plesance ynough / vn to youre lyues ende
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¶ O thyng biseke I yow / and warne also [vnum bona fide precor ac moneo / ne hanc/ illis aculeis agites / quibus alteram agitasti namque & iunior & delicacius nutrita est/ pati quantum ego vt reor non valeret/]
That ye ne prike / with no tormentynge
This tendre mayden / as ye han do mo
ffor she is fostred / in hir norissynge
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Moore tendrely / and to my supposynge
She koude nat aduersitee endure
As koude / a poure fostred creature
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¶ And whan this Walter / saw hir pacience
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Hir glad cheere / and no malice at al
And he so ofte / had doon to hire offence
And she ay sad / and constant as a wal
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Continuynge euere / hir Innocence ouer al [vbique.]
This sturdy Markys / gan his herte dresse
To rewen / vp on hir wyfly stedfastnesse
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¶ This is ynogh / Grisilde myn quod he
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Be now namoore agast ne yuele apayed
I haue thy feith / and thy benygnytee
As wel / as euere womman was.? assayed
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In greet estat and poureliche arrayed
Now knowe I deere wyf / thy stedfastnesse
And hire in armes took / and gan hir kesse
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¶ And she for wonder / took of it no keepe
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She herde nat what thyng he to hir seyde
She ferde / as she hadde stirt out of a sleepe
Til she / out of hir mazednesse abreyde
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