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ffor which / this Markys / wroghte in this manere
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He cam allone / a nyght / ther as she lay
With stierne face / and with ful trouble cheere
And seyde thus / Grisilde quod he that day
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That I yow took/ out of youre pouere array
And putte yow / in estaat of heigh noblesse
Ye haue / nat that forgeten as I gesse
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I seye Grisilde / this present dignitee
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In which that I haue put yow /. as I trowe?
Maketh yow nat foryetful for to be
That I yow took/ in poure estaat ful lowe
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ffor any wele / ye moot youre seluen knowe
Taak heede / of euery word / that y yow seye
Ther is no wight that hereth it but we tweye
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Ye woot youre self wel / how þat ye cam heere
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In to this hous / it is nat longe ago
And though to me / þat ye be lief and deere
Vn-to my gentils / ye be no thyng so
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They seyn / to hem / it is greet shame and wo
ffor to be subgetz / and to been in seruage
To thee / that born art/ of a smal village
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And namely / sith thy doghter was ybore
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Thise wordes / han they spoken doutelees
But I desire / as I haue doon bifore
To lyue my lyf with hem / in reste and pees
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I may nat in this caas / be recchelees
I moot doon with thy doghter/ for the beste
Nat as I wolde / but as my peple leste
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And yet god woot this is ful looth to me [folio 97b]
But nathelees / with oute youre wityng
I wol nat doon / but this wol I quod he
That ye to me assente / as in this thyng
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