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No wonder is / thogh she were astoned [¶ Et insolito tanti hospitis aduentu stupidam inuenit. ]
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To seen so greet a gest come in that place
She neuere was / to swiche gestes woned
ffor which / she looked / with ful pale face
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But shortly / forth this tale for to chace
Thise arn the wordes / þat the Markys sayde
To this benigne / verray feithful mayde
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¶ Grisilde he seyde / ye shal wel vnderstonde [¶ Et patri tuo placet inquid & mihi vt vxor mea sis / et credo idipsum tibi placeat/ sed habeo ex te querere & cetera. ]
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It liketh to youre fader and to me
That I yow / wedde / and eek it may so stonde
As I suppose / ye wol that it so be
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But thise demandes / axe I first quod he
That sith it shal be doon / in hastif wyse
Wol ye assente / or elles yow auyse
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I seye this / be ye redy with good herte
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To al my lust and that I frely may
As me best thynketh / do yow laughe or smerte
And neuere ye to grucche it nyght ne day
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And eek whan I sey ye / ne sey nat nay
Neither by word / ne frownyng contenance [¶ sine vlla frontis aut verbi inpugnacione.]
Swere this / and heere I swere yow alliance
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¶ Wondrynge vp on this word / quakynge for drede [¶ Nil ego vnquam sciens nedum faciam set eciam cogitabo quod contra animum tuum sit/ nec tu aliquid facies / et si me mori iusseris quod moleste feram &cetera. ]
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She seyde lord / vndigne and vnworthy?
Am I / to thilke honour/ þat ye me beede
But as ye wole youre self right so wol .I.
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And heere I swere / that neuere willyngly
In werk ne thoght I nyl yow disobeye
ffor to be deed / though me were looth to deye
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¶ This is ynogh / Grisilde myn quod he [folio 96a]
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And forth he gooth / with a ful sobre cheere
Out at the dore / and after that cam she
And to the peple / he seyde in this manere
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