[6-text p 413]
If þat þou vouche saff what so betyde
þy doughter I wol take or þat I wende
As for my wijf vnto hire lyues ende
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¶ þou louest me I wot it wel certain
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And art my feiþful liege man y-bore
And al þat likeþ me I dar wel sayn
It likeþ þe and specialliche þerfore
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Telle me þat poynt as I haue sayd bifore
If þat þou wilt vnto þat purpos drawe
To take me as for þi sone in lawe
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¶ The sodeyn cas þe man astoned so
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þat reed he wax abayst and al quakynge
he stood vnneþe he sayde worde no mo
But only þus lord quod he my willynge
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Is as ȝe wille nought aȝeins ȝour likynge
I wole noþing ȝe be my lord so dere
But as ȝou luste gouerneþ þis matiere
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¶ ȝit wol I quod þis marquys softely
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þat in þi chambre I and þou and sche.
haue a collacion and wostow why
ffor I wil axe if þat hire wille be
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To be my wijf and reule hire after me [folio 133a]
And al þis schal be doon in þi presence
I wol not speke out of þin audience
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¶ And in here chambre whil þay were aboute
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here tretees which þat ȝe schul after heere
þe poeple cam in to þe hous wiþoute
And wondred hem in hor honeste manere
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And tentyfly sche kepte hir fader deere
But outerly Grysildis wondre might
ffor neuer erst ne saugh sche such a sight
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