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For more solempne in euery mannes sight
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This feste was and gretter of costage [folio 131b]
Than was þe reuel of hir mariage /
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Ful many a ȝer in heigh prosperite
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lyuen þese tuo in concord and in rest
And richeliche his doughter maried he
vnto a lord on of þe worthiest
Of al ytaile and þanne in pees and rest
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His wyues fader in his court he kepith
Til þat þe soule out of his body crepith
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His sone succedith in his heritage
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In rest and pees . after his fader day
And fortunat . was eek in mariage
Al put he not his wyf in gret assay
This world is not so strong it is no nay
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As it haþ ben in olde tymes ȝore
And herknith what þis auctor saith þerfore
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This story is sayd nat for þat wyues scholde
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Folwe Grisild . as in humilite
For it were importable þough þay wolde
But for þat euery wight in his degre
Schulde be constant . in aduersite
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As was Grisild . therfore Petrark writeth
This story which wiþ high stile he enditeth
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For swich a womman was so pacient
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vnto a mortal man wel more vs oughte
Receyuen al in gre þat god vs sent
For gret skil is he proue þat he wroughte
But he ne temptith no man þat he boughte
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As saith seint Iame if he his pistil rede
he prouith folk al day it is no drede
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