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¶ To euery wight/ she woxen is so deere [¶ Atque apud omnes supra fidem cara & vene|rabilis facta est/ vix quod hijs ipsis qui illius originem nouerant persuaderi posset Ianicule natam esse tantus vite / tantus morum decor ea verborum grauitas atque dulcedo quibus omnium animos nexu sibi magni amoris astrinxerat / ]
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And worshipful / þat folk ther she was bore
And from hire birthe / knewe hire yeer by yeere
Vnnethe trowed they / but dorste han swore
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That she to Ianicle / of which I spak bifore
She doghter were / for as by coniecture
Hem thoughte / she was another creature
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ffor though that euere vertuous was she [folio 96b]
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She was encressed / in swich excellence
Of thewes goode / yset in heigh bountee
And so discreet and fair of eloquence
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So benigne / and so digne of reuerence
And koude so / the peples herte embrace
That ech hire louede / that looked on hir face
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¶ Noght oonly of Saluces in the toun
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Publiced was / the beautee of hir name
But eek biside / in many a regioun
If oon seide wel / another seyde the same
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So spradde / of hire heighe bountee the name
That men and wommen / as wel yonge as olde
Goon to Saluce / vpon hire to bihold
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Thus Walter lowely? nay / but roially [¶ sic Walterus humili quidem / set/ insigni ac prospero matrimonio honestatis summa dei in pace & cetera. ]
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Wedded / with fortunat honestetee
In goddes pees / lyueth ful esily
At hoom / and outward / grace ynogh had he
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And for he saugh / that vnder heigh degree [¶ quodque eximiam virtutem tanta sub inopia latitantem tam perspicaciter deprendisset/ vulgo prudentissimus habebatur. ]
Was vertu hid / the peple hym heelde
A prudent man / and that is seyn ful seelde
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¶ Nat oonly this Grisildis / thurgh hir wit [¶ Neque vero solers sponsa muliebria tantum ac domestica / sed vbi res posceret publica eciam subibat officia. ]
Koude al the feet of wyfly humblenesse
But eek whan that the cas required it
The commune profit koude she redresse
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