[6-text p 435]
Ay ful of clappyng dere ynough a Iane
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ȝoure doom is fals ȝour constaunce yuel preuith
A ful gret fool is he that on ȝow leeuith
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Thus sayde saad folk in þat Citee
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whan þat þe poeple gased vp and doun
For þay were glad right of þe nouelte
To han a newe lady of her toun
No more of þis now make I mencioun
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But to Grisildes agayn wol I me dresse
And telle hir constance and hir busynesse /
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Ful busy was grisild in euery þing
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That to þe feste was appertinent
Right nought was sche abaissht of hir cloþing
Though it were ruyde . and som del eek torent
But wiþ glad cheer to þe ȝate is sche went [folio 130a]
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with oþer folk to griete þe marquisesse
And after þat doth forth hir busynesse /
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With so glad chier his gestes sche receyueth
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And so connyngly euerich in his degre /
That no defaute no man aparceyueth
But ay þay wondren what sche mighte be
That in so pouer array was for to se
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And couþe such honour and reuerence
And worthily þay prayse hir prudence
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In al þis mene while sche ne stent
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This mayde and eek hir brother to comende
with al hir hert . in ful buxom entent
So wel þat no man couþe hir pris amende
But atte last whan þat þese lordes wende
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To sitte doun to mete he gan to calle /
Grisild as sche was busy in his halle
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