From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Clerk's Tale, lines 197-210

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From The Canterbury Tales:
The Clerk's Tale
lines 197-210: About a poor village and its poorest inhabitants Janicula and his daughter Griselda

Incipit secunda pars.
Here begins the second part

	Noght fer fro thilke paleys honurable
	Ther as this markys shoop his mariage,
	Ther stood a throop, of site delitable,
200	In which that povre folk of that village
	Hadden hir beestes and hir herbergage,
	And of hir lobour tooke hir sustenance,
	After that the erthe yaf hem habundance.

	Not far from that same honoured palace where
	This marquis planned his marriage, at this tide,
	There was a village, on a site most fair,
200	Wherein the poor folk of the countryside
	Stabled their cattle and did all abide,
	And where their labour gave them sustenance
	After the earth had yielded abundance.

Amonges thise povre folk ther dwelte a man

205 Which that was holden povrest of hem alle;

But hye God somtyme senden kan

His grace into a litel oxes stalle

Janicula men of that throop hym calle.

A doghter hadde he, fair ynogh to sighte,

210 And Grisildis this yonge mayden highte.

Amongst these humble folk there dwelt a man

205 Who was considered poorest of them all;

But the high God of heaven sometimes can

Send his grace to a little ox's stall;

Janicula men did this poor man call.

A daughter had he, fair enough to sight;

210 Griselda was this young maid's name, the bright.

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