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Ther nas discord rancour ne heuynesse /
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In al þat lond þat sche ne couþe appese /
And wisly bryng hem alle in rest and ese
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Though þat hir housbond absent were anoon
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If gentil men or oþer of hir contre
were wroth sche wolde brynge hem at oon
So wyse and rype wordes hadde sche
And Iuggement of so gret equite
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That sche from heuen sent was as men wende /
Poeple to saue and euery wrong to amende
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Nought longe tyme after þat þis Grisilde
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was wedded sche a douȝter haþ I-bore
Al had hir leuer han had a knaue childe
Glad was þis marquis and þe folk þerfore
For though a mayden child come al byfore / [folio 122b]
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Sche may vnto a knaue child atteigne
By liklihed and sche nys not bareigne [[No break in the MS.]]
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¶ Incipit Tercia pars.
Ther fel as fallith many tymes mo
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whan þat þis child haþ souked but a þrowe
This marquys in his herte longith so
Tempte his wyf . hir sadnesse for to knowe
That he ne might out of his herte þrowe
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This meruaylous desir his wyf tassaye
Now god wot he þought hir to affraye
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He had assayed hir ynough bifore
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And fond hir euer good what needith it/
hire to tempte . and alway more and more
Though som men prayse it for a subtil wit
But as for me I say that euel it sit
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Tassay a wyf whan þat it is no neede
And putte hir in anguysch and in dreede
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