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¶ To euery wight sche woxen is so deere
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And worschipful þat folk þer sche was bore
And from hire burþe knewe hire þere by ȝeere
vnneþe trowede þey but durst han swore
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þat to Ianicle of which I spak byfore
Sche doughter nas for as by coueiture
hem þoughte sche was anoþer creature
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¶ ffor þough euere vertuous was sche
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Sche was encressed in such excellence
Of þewes good y-sette in heih bounte
And so discrete and fair of eloquence
So benigne and digne of reuerence
And coude so þe poeples herte embrace
þat ech hir loueþ þat lokeþ on hir face
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¶ Not only of salues in þe toun
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Pirplissched was þe bounte of hir name
But eek besyde in many a region
If on sayde wel anoþer sayde þe same
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So spredeþ of hire heih bounte & fame
That men and wommen als wel ȝonge as olde
Gon to salice vpon hir to byholde
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¶ Thus Walter lowly nat but really
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Wedded wiþ fortunate honeste
In goddes pees lyueþ ful esily
At hom and outward grace ynough hadde he
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And for he saugh þat vnder lough degre
Was ofte vertu hyd þe poeple him helde
A prudent man and þat is seyn ful seelde
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¶ Nat oonly þis Grisildis þurgh hir witte
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Coude al þe fait of wyfly homlynesse
But eke whan þat þe cas requyred it
The comun profyt coude sche redresse
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