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But for to speke / of verteuous beute
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Thanne was sche on / þe fayreste vndyr sunne
ffor pourely / I-fosterede vp was sche
No lykerous lust / was thorw hire herte I-ronne
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Weel oftere of / þe welle þan of þe tunne
Sche drank & for / sche wolde vertu plese
Sche knew wel labour / but non ydyl ese
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But thow þis mayd / tendere was of age [folio 245b]
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ȝit in þe 1in here chaste virginite1 [[1_1 later]]
There was enclosede rype & sad corage
And in gret / reuerence & charyte
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Hyre olde pore / fadyr fosterede sche
A fewe schep / spynnynge on feld sche kepte
Sche wolde not / ben ydyl tyl sche slepte
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And whan sche homward / cam sche wolde brynge
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Wortis or oþere / erbis tymys ofte
The whiche sche dalf / & sette for hyre lyuynge
And made hyre bed / ful harde & nothyng softe
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And ay sche kepte hyre faderys lyf on lofte
With euery obeysaunce & dilygence
That child may don to / faders reuerence
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Vp-on Grysilde / þis pore creature
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fful ofte tyme / þis Markis sette his eye
As he an huntyng / rod parauenture
And whan it fel / þat he myȝte hire espye
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He not with wauntoun / lokyng of folye
His eyen cast on / here / but in sad wyse
Vp-on hire cher / he wolde hym ofte a-vyse
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Comendynge in his / herte / hire womanhede
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And ek hire verteus / passynge ony wyght
Of so ȝyng age / as wel in chere as dede
ffor thogh þe puple / hath no gret ensyȝt
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