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¶ Grisilde of this / god woot ful Innocent
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That for hire / shapen was al this array
To fecchen water at a welle is went
And comth hoom / as soone as euer she may
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ffor wel she hadde herd seyd / that thilke day
The Markys sholde wedde / and if she myghte
She wolde fayn / han seyn / som of that sighte
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She thoghte / I wole / with othere maydens stonde [folio 95a] [¶ Vt expeditis curis alijs ad videndum domini sui sponsam cum puellis comitibus propararet/ ]
That been my felawes / in oure dore and se
The Markysesse / and therfore wol I fonde
To doon at hoom / as soone as it may be
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The labour / which that longeth vn-to me
And thanne I may / at leyser hire biholde
If she this wey / vn-to the Castel holde
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And as she wolde / ouer hir thresshfold gon
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The Markys cam / and gan hire for to calle
And she set doun / hir water pot anon
Biside the thresshfold/ in an Oxes stalle
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And doun vp-on hir knes she gan to falle
And with sad contenance / kneleth stille
Til she had herd / what was the lordes will
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¶ This thoghtful Markys / spak vn-to this mayde [¶ quum Walterus cogitabundus cedens eamque compellans nomine. ]
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fful sobrely / and seyde in this manere
Where is youre fader / o Grisildis he sayde
And she with reuerence / in humble cheere
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Answerde . lord / he is al redy heere
And In she gooth / with outen lenger lette
And to the Markys / she hir fader fette
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He by the hand / thanne took this olde man
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And seyde thus / whan he hym hadde asyde
Ianicula / I neither may ne kan
Lenger / the plesance of myn herte hyde
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