[6-text p 421]
þat for vs deyed vpon a crosse of tre
þy soule litel child I him bytake
ffor þis night schalt þou deye for my sake
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¶ I trowe to a norice in þis cas
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It hadde ben hard þis reuþe for to se
Wel might a mooder þan han cryed allas
But naþeles so sadde stedefast was sche
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þat sche endured alle aduersite
And to þe sergeaunt mekely sche sayde
haue her aȝein ȝour litel ȝonge mayde
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¶ Goþ now quod sche and doþ my lordes heste
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But o þing wold I pray ȝou of ȝour grace
þat but my lord forbad ȝou atte leste
Burieþ þis litel body in som place
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þat bestes ne no briddes it to-race
But he ne wolde no word to þe purpos seye
But/ tok þe childe and went vpon his weye
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¶ þis sergaunt cam vnto þis lord ageyne
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And of Grisildes wordes and hir cheere
he tolde him word for word in schort and pleyne
And him presenteþ with his douȝter dere
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Somwhat þis lord hadde reuþe in his manere [folio 136b]
But naþeles his purpos held he stille
As lordes don whan þay wol haue here wille
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And bad þis sergaunt þat he priuyly
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Schulde þis child ful ofte wynde and wrappe
Wiþ alle circumstaunces tendrely
And carye it in a coffre or in a lappe
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But vpon peyne his heed of for to swappe
þat noman schulde knowe of his entent
Ne when he come ne whider þat he went
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