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Of his spousaille / as soone / as euere he may
ffor yet alwey / the peple som what dredde
Lest þat this Markys / no wyf wolde wedde
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¶ He graunted hem a day / swich as hym leste
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On which / he wolde be wedded sikerly
And seyde / he dide al this at hir requeste
And they / with humble entente / buxomly
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Knelynge vp on hir knees ful reuerently
Hym thonken alle / and thus they han an ende
Of hire entente / and hoom agayn they wende
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¶ And heer vp on / he to hise officeres
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Comaundeth / for the feste to purveye
And to hise priuee knyghtes and squieres
Swich charge yaf / as hym liste on hem leye
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And they / to his comandement obeye
And ech of hem / dooth al his diligence
To doon / vn-to the feeste reuerence
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¶ Explicit/ prima pars .
¶ Incipit/ secunda pars . [folio 94a]
NOght fer / fro thilke paleys honurable [‖ ffuit haut procul a palacio &cetera. ]
Ther as this Markys / shoope his mariage
There stood a throope / of site delitable
In which / that poure folk/ of that village
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Hadden hir beestes / and hir herbergage
And of hire labour / tooke hir sustenance
After that the erthe / yaf hem habundance
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Amonges thise poure folk/ ther dwelte a man
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Which þat was holden / pourest of hem alle
But hye god / som tyme senden kan
His grace / in to a litel oxes stalle
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Ianicula / men of that throope hym calle
A doghter hadde he / fair ynogh to sighte
And Grisildis / this yonge mayden highte
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