[6-text p 412]
¶ Grisilde of þis god wot ful Innocent
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þat for hire schapen al þis array was
To fecche water at a welle is wente
And comeþ home as sone as euer sche may
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ffor wel sche hadde herd seyde þat ilke day
That marquys schulde wedde and if sche might
Sche wolde fayn han seyn some of þat sight
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¶ Sche þought I wille wiþ oþre maydens stonde
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þat ben my felawes in oure dore and se
The marquisesse and þerfore wol I fonde
To do at home as sone as it may be
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þe labour which þat longeþ vnto me
And þanne I may at leysyr hire by-holde
If sche þis wey vnto þe castel holde
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¶ And as sche wolde ouer hire þresshfold gon
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The marquys cam and gan hir for to calle
And sche sette doun hir water potte anon·
Bysyde þis þresshfolde of þis oxe stalle [folio 132b]
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And doun vpon hir knees sche gan to falle
Wiþ sad contynance and kneleþ stille
Til sche had herd what was þe lordes wille
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þis þoughtful marquys spak vnto þis mayde
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fful soberly and seyde in þis manere
Wher is ȝour fader Grisildis he sayde
And sche wiþ reuerence in humble chere
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Answerde lord he is al redy heere
And in sche goþ wiþoute lenger lette
And to þe marquys hir fader sche fette
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¶ he by þe hond þan took þis olde man/
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And sayde þus whan he him hadde a syde
Ianycala I neyþer may ne can
lengere þe plesaunce of myn herte hyde
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