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Grisilde quod he / by god þat for vs deyde
Thow art my wyf / noon oother I haue
Ne neuere hadde / as god my soule saue
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¶ This is thy doghter / which thow hast supposed [folio 189a]
To be my wyf / that oother feithfully
Shal be myn heir / as I haue ay supposed
Thow bare hym / in thy body trewely
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At Boloigne / haue I kept hem priuely
Tak hem agayn / for now maistow nat seye
That thow hast lorn / noon of thy children tweye
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¶ And folk / þat oother weys / han seyd of me
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I warne hem wel / þat I haue doon this dede
ffor no malice / ne for no crueltee
But for tassaye in thee / thy wommanhede
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And nat to sleen my children / god forbede
But for to kepe hem / pryuely and stille
Til I thy purpos knewe / and al thy wille
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¶ Whan she this herde / / aswowne doun she falleth
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ffor pitous ioye / and after hir swownynge
She bothe hir yonge children / vn to hire calleth
And in hir armes / pitously wepynge
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Embraceth hem / and tendrely kissynge
fful lyk a moder / with hir salte terys
She batheth / bothe hir visage and hir herys
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¶ O which a pitous thyng it was to se
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Hir swownyng and hir humble voys to heere
Grant mercy lord / god thanke it yow / quod she
That ye han saued me / my children deere
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Now rekke I neuere / to been ded right heere
Sith I stonde in youre loue / and in youre grace
No fors of deeth / ne whan my spirit pace
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