[6-text p 421]
That for vs deyde / vp on a croys of tree
Thy soule litel child / I hym bitake
ffor this nyght shaltow dyen for my sake
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¶ I trowe / that to a norice in this cas
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It had been hard / this reuthe for to se
Wel myghte a mooder / thanne han cryd allas
But nathelees / so sad and stidefast was she
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That she endured / al aduersitee
And to the sergeant mekely she sayde
Haue heer agayn / youre litel yonge mayde
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Gooth now quod she / and dooth my lordes heeste
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And o thyng/ wol I prey yow of youre grace
That but my lord / forbad yow atte leeste
Burieth this litel body / in som place
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That beestes ne no briddes / it to-race
But he no word / wol to that purpos seye
But took the child / and wente vpon his weye
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¶ This sergeant cam vn-to his lord ageyn [folio 98b]
And of Grisildis wordes / and hire cheere
He tolde hym point for point in short and pleyn
And hym presenteth / with his doghter deere
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Somwhat this lord / hath routhe in his manere
But nathelees / his purpos heeld he stille
As lordes doon / whan they wol han hir wille
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And bad his sergeant that he pryuely
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Sholde this child / softe wynde and wrappe
With alle circumstances / tendrely
And carie it in a cofre / or in a lappe
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But vp-on peyne / his heed of for to swappe
That no man sholde knowe / of his entente [vnde]
Ne whenne / ne whider that he wente
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