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ȝif þat þou vouche saf/ what so be-tyde
Thyn douȝtyr wele I / take 1er þan I wende1 [[1_1 Written over an erasure in a later hand.]]
As for myn wif / vn-to myn lyuys ende
Thow louyst me / I wot it wel serteyn
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And art myn feythful / lyge man I-bore
And al þat lykyth me / I dare wel seyn
It lykyth þe / & specially þerfore
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Tel me þat poynt / þat I haue seyd be-fore
ȝif that þou wilt / vnto þat purpos drawe
To take me / as for þyn sone in lawe
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The sodeyn cas / þis man a-stonede so
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That red he wex / a-bayst & al quakynge
He stod oneþe / seyde he wordys moo
But only this / lord quod he myn willyng
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Is as ȝe wele / ne a-ȝens ȝoure lykyng
I wele no thyng / ȝe be myn lord so dere
Ryght as ȝow lyst / gouernyth þis matyere
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That wel I wot / quod / þis Markis softely [folio 247a]
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That in thy chambir / I & þou & sche
Haue a colacioun / & wyst þou whi
ffor I wele aske ȝif it hire wille be
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To be myn wif / & rewele hyr aftyr me
And al þis schal been don / in þyn presence
I wele not spek / out of þyn audience
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And in þe chambere / whil þey were a-boute
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This tretys which / þat ȝe schul aftyr here
The puple cam / vnto þe hous with-oute
And wondere hem / in how oneste manere
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And tentyfli sche / kepte hire fadyr dere
But outyrly / Grisildis wondere myghte
ffor neuere erst / ne saw sche swich a syghte
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