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To stynte rancour and dissencion
Bitwixe his peple and hym / thus seyde the bulle
The which / they han publiced atte fulle
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¶ The rude peple / as it no wonder is
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Wenden ful wel / that it hadde be right so
But whan thise tidynges cam to Grisildis
I deeme / that hire herte was ful wo
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But she / ylike sad for eueremo
Disposed was / this humble creature
The aduersitee of ffortune al tendure
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Abidynge euere / his lust and his plesance
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To whom þat she was yeuen / herte and al
As to hire verray worldly suffisance
But shortly / if this storie I tellen shal
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This Markys / writen hath in special
A lettre / in which he sheweth his entente
And secreely he to Boloigne it sente
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To the Erl of Pavyk/ which þat hadde tho
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Wedded his suster/ preyde he specially
To bryngen hoom agayn hise children two
In honurable estaat al openly
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But o thyng he hym preyde outrely
That he to no wight though men wolde enquere
Sholde nat telle / whos children þat they were
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But seye / the mayden / sholde ywedded be
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Vn-to the Markys / of Saluce anon
And as this Erl was preyd / so dide he
ffor at day set he on his wey is goon
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Toward Saluce / and lordes many oon
In riche array this mayden for to gyde
Hir yonge brother/ ridynge hire bisyde
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