The Multitext Edition > Cambridge University Library MS. Gg.4.2.7
Lenvoye de Chaucer
Folio 259r
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Grysilde is deed & ek hire pacience
And bothe at onoys buryed in Ytayle
For whiche in opene audience
No weddede man / so hardy be tassaylle
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His wyuys pacience entrost to fynde
Grisildis for in certeyn he schal faylle
O noble wyuys ful of prudence
Let noon humilite ȝoure tunge nayille
Ne lat no klerk haue cause nor dilygēce
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To wryte of ȝow a story of swych meruaile
As of Grisildis pacient & kynde
Lest Chicheuache / you swolwe in hire entrayle
Folwith Ecco / that holdyth no sylence
But euere answerith at the countretayle
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Beth not bedaffyd for ȝoure Innocence
But scharpely takyth on ȝow the gouernaile
Enpryntith wel this lessoū in ȝoure mȳde
For comune profyt / sithe it may a wayle