[6-text p 420]
¶ Ma dame he sayde ȝe moote forȝiue it me
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Though I do þing þe which I am constreyned
ȝe ben so wys þat ful wel knowe ȝe
þat lordes heestes mowe not be feyned
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þey mowe wel be weyled or compleyned
But men moot needes to here lust obeye
And so wol I þer nys nomore to seye
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¶ þis child am I comaunded for to take
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And spak no more but out þe childe he hente
Dispitously and gan a cheere make
As þough he wold han slayn it or he wente
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Grisildes mot al soffre and consente
And as a lombe sche sitteþ meke & stille
And lete þis cruel sergant han his wille
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¶ Suspeccious was þe defame of þis man
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Suspecte his face suspecte his word also
Suspecte þe tyme in which he þis bygan.
Allas hir doughter þat sche loued so [folio 136a]
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Sche wende he wolde haue slayen it right þo
But naþeles sche nouþer weep ne siked
Conformyng hire to þat þe marquys liked
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¶ But atte laste speke sche bigan
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And mekely sche to þe sergaunt preyed
So as he was a worþy gentil man
þat sche moste kisse hir childe or þat it deyde
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And in hir barm þis litel child sche leyde
Wiþ ful sadde face and gan þis childe to blisse
And lulled it and after gan it kisse
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¶ And þus sche seyde in hire benigne vois
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ffar wel my child I schal þe neuer se
But siþ I haue þe marked wiþ þe croys
Of þilke fader blessed mote þou be
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