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¶ And suffreth vs / as for oure exercise
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With sharpe scourges / of aduersitee
fful ofte to be bete / in sondry wise
Nat for to knowe oure wyl / for certes he
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Er we were born / knew al oure freletee
And for oure beste / is al his gouernance
Let vs thanne lyue / in vertuous suffrance
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¶ But o word lordynges / herkneth er I go
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It were ful hard / to fynde now a dayes
In al a town / Grisildis thre or two
ffor if þat they were put to swiche assayes
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The gold of hem / hath now so badde alayes
With bras / that thogh the coigne / be fair at eye
It wolde rather / breste atwo than plye
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¶ ffor which heere / for the wyues loue of Bathe [folio 190b]
Whos lyf/ and al hir secte / god mayntene
In heigh maistrie / or ellis were it scathe
I wol with lusty herte / fressh and grene
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Seye yow a song to glade yow I wene
And lat vs stynte / of ernestful matere
Herkneth my song that seith in this manere
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¶ Here is ended the tale / of the clerk of/ Oxenford.
¶ Lenuoy de Chaucer.
GRisilde is deed / and eek hir pacience
And bothe atones / buryed in Ytaille
ffor which I crye / in open audience
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No wedded man / so hardy be tasssaille
His wyues pacience / in trust to fynde
Grisildis / for in certein he shal faille
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