[6-text p 435]
Ay ful of clappyng deere ynogh a Iane
ȝoure dom is fals / ȝoure constaunce euel preuyth
A ful greet fol is he þat on ȝow leuyth
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Thus seydyn sadde folk in þat Cetee
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Whan þat the peple gaȝede vp & doun
ffor they were glad rygh for þe noueltee
To haue a newe lady of hire toun
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No more of this now make I mencioun
But to grysilde a-geyn wil I me dresse
And telle hire constance & hire besynesse
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fful bisy was Grisilde / in euery thyng
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That to þe feste / was apertynent
Rygh nought was sche / abast of hire clothynge
Thow it were rude & sumdel ek to-rent
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But with glad chier to þe ȝate is went
With oþere folk to greete the Markisesse
And aftyr doth / forth hire besinesse
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With so glad chiere / hire gestis sche resseyuydh
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And so benyngnely euerych in his degre
That no defaute no man aperseyuyth
But ay they wondere / what sche myghte be
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That in so pore aray / was for to se
And coude swich honour / & reuerence
And worthily they preyse hire prudence
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In al this meene while / sche ne stente [folio 257a]
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That mayde & ek hire broth[i]r to comende
With al hire herte in ful benyngne entente
So wel þat no man coude hire pris a-mende
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But at þe laste / whan that þe lordys wende
To syttyn doun to mete he gan to calle
Grysilde as sche was bysy in the halle
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