[6-text p 411]
In vertu he considereth aright
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Hir bounte and desposed þat he wolde
wedde hir oonly if euer he wedde scholde
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The day of weddyng cam but no wight can
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Telle what womman it schulde be /
For which meruayle wondrith many a man
And sayden whan þay were in priuete
wol nought our lord ȝit leue his vanite
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wol he not wedde allas allas þe while
why wol he þus himself and vs bigyle
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But natheles þis marquys haþ doon make
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Of gemmes set in gold and in asure
Broches and rynges for Grisildes sake /
And of hir clothing took he þe mesure [folio 120a]
By a mayde y-lik to hir of stature
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And eek of oþer ornamentes alle /
That vnto such a weddyng schulde falle /
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The tyme of vndern of þe same day
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Approchith þat þis weddyng schulde be /
And al þe palys put was in array
Boþe halle an chambur . ylik here degre
houses of office stuffid with plente
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Ther maystow se of deynteuous vitayle
That may be founde as fer as lastith Itaile /
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This real marquys really arrayd
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lordes and ladyes in his compaignye
he which vnto þe feste were prayed
And of his retenu þe bachelerie
with many a soun of sondry melodye
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vnto þe vilage of which I tolde
In þis array þe right way han þay holde
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