[6-text p 412]
Grysild of þis god wot ful Innocent /
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That for hir schapen was al þis array /
To fecche water at a welle is went/
And cometh hom as soone as sche may
For wel sche had herd sayd þat ilke day
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The marquys schulde wedde and if sche might
Sche wold haue seyen som what of þat sight
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Sche sayd I wol with oþer maydenes stonde /
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That ben my felawes . in oure dore and see /
The marquys and þerfore wol I fonde /
To don at hom as soone as it may be
The labour which þat longeth vnto me
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And þanne may I at leysir hir byholde
And sche þe way in to þe castel holde /
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And as sche wold ouer þe þreisshfold goon
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The marquys cam and gan hir for to calle
And sche set doun her water-pot anoon
Bisides þe þreischfold of þis oxe stalle /
And doun vpon hir/ knees . sche gan falle
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And with sad countenaunce knelith stille
Til sche had herd what was þe lordes wille [folio 120b]
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This þoughtful marquys spak vnto þis mayde
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Ful soberly and sayd in þis manere
wher is ȝour fader Grisildes he sayde
And sche with reuerence and humble cheere
Sayde lord he is al redy heere /
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And in sche goth wiþouten lenger let
And to þe marquys sche hir fader fet
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He by þe hond þan takith þis olde man
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And sayde þus . whan he him had on syde /
Ianicula I neither may ne can
lenger þe plesauns of myn herte hyde
