[6-text p 417]
þer nas discorde rancour ne heuynesse
In al þat lond þat sche couþe appese
And wisly bringe hem alle in hertes eese
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¶ Though þat hire housbonde absent were anon [folio 134b]
If gentil men or oþer of hire countre /
Were wroþe sche wolde bringen hem at on
So wys and rype wordes hadde sche /
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And Iuggements of so gret equite
þat sche from heuen sent was as men wende
þe poeple to plese and euery wrong to amende
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¶ Nat long tyme after þat þis Grisilde
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Was wedded sche a douȝter haþ y-bore
Al hadde hir leuer haue born a knaue childe
Glad was þis marquys and his folk þerfore
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ffor þough a mayden childe come al bifore
Sche may vnto a knaue child atteyne
Be lykened siþþe sche is not bareyne
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¶ Explicit ija pars.
Ther felle as it bifalleþ tymes mo
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When þat þis childe had souked but a þrowe
This marquys in his herte longeþ so
To tempte his wyf hir sadnesse for to knowe
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þat he ne might out of his herte þrowe
¶ This merueylous desir his wijf to assaye
Needeles god wot he þought hir to affraye
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he hadde assayed hire ynough bifore
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And fond hir euer good what needed it
hire for to tempte and alway more and more
But as for me I seye þat euele it sitte
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þough some men it preyse for a subtil witte
To assaye a wijf whan þat it is no neede
And putten hire in anguissche and in dreede
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