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Of his spousaile as sone as euer he may
ffor ȝet alway þe poeple somwhat dredde
lest þat þis marquys no wijf wolde wedde
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He graunted hem a day such as him leste [folio 131a]
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On which he wolde be wedded sikerly
And sayde he dide al þis at þair requeste
And þay wiþ humble entent ful buxomly
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knelyng vpon here knees ful reuerently
him þonkyng alle and þus þay haue an ende
Of here entent and home aȝein þei wende
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And her vpon he to his officers
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Comandeþ for þe feste to purveye
And to his priue knightes and squyers
Such charge ȝaf as him list on hem leye
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And þay to his comaundement obeye
And ech of hem doþ al his diligence
To do vnto þe feste reuerence
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[PART II.]
¶ Prima pars
NOught fer fro þe paleys honurable
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Wher as þe marquys schop his mariage
Ther stood a throop of þe Cite delitable
In which þat pore folk of þat village
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hadden here bestes and here herbergage
And of here labour toke here sustienance
After þe erþe ȝaf hem abundance
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Among þis pore folk þer dwelled a man
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Which was holde pouerest of hem alle
But heihe god sum tyme sende can
his grace in to a litel oxe stalle
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Ianicula men of þat throop him calle
A doughter hadde he fair ynough to sight
¶ And Grisildis þis ȝonge mayden highte
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