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To euery wight sche waxen is so deere
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And worschipful þat folk þer sche was born
And from hir burthe knew hir ȝer by ȝere
Vnneth trowed þay but dorst han sworn
That to Ianicle of which I spak biforn
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Sche doughter were . for as by coniecture
Hem þought sche was anoþer creature
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For þough þat euer vertuous was sche
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Sche was encresed in such excellence [folio 122a]
Of thewes goode i-set in high bounte
And so discret and fair of eloquence
So benigne and so digne of reuerence
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And couþe so þe poeples hert embrace
That ech hir loueþ þat lokith in hir face
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Nought oonly of Saluce in þe toun
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Puplissched was þe bounte of hir name
But eek byside in many a regioun
If oon sayd wel anoþer sayd þe same
So sprad of hire heigh bounte þe fame /
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That men and wommen as wel ȝong as olde
Gon to Saluce vpon hir to byholde
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This walter louly . nay but really
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weddid with fortunat honestete
In goddes pees lyueth ful esily
At home and outward grace ynough haþ he
And for he saugh þat vnder low degre
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was ofte vertu y-hid þe poeple him helde
A prudent man and þat is seint ful selde
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Nought oonly þis Grisildes þurgh hit witte
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Couthe al þe feet of wifly humblesse /
But eek whan þat þe tyme required it
The comun profyt couthe sche redresse
