From Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", The Clerk's Tale, lines 596-609

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Walter orders the sergeant to bring the child secretly to Bologna

From The Canterbury Tales:
The Clerk's Tale
lines 596-609: Despite the loss of her child, Griselda's mood and splendour have not changed

	The sergeant gooth, and hath fulfild this thyng,
	But to this markys now retourne we,
	For now gooth he ful faste ymaginyng,
	If by his wyves cheere he myghte se
600	Or by hir word aperceyve that she
	Were chaunged, but he nevere hir koude fynde,
	But evere in oon ylike sad and kynde.

	The sergeant goes and has fulfilled this thing;
	But to this marquis now return must we;
	For soon he went to see her, wondering
	If by his wife's demeanour he might see,
600	Or by her conversation learn that she
	Were changed in aught; but her he could not find
	Other than ever serious and kind.

As glad, as humble, as bisy in servyse,

And eek in love, as she was wont to be,

605 Was she to hym in every maner wyse,

Ne of hir doghter noght a word spak she.

Noon accident for noon adversitee

Was seyn in hire, ne nevere hir doghter name

Ne nempned she, in ernest nor in game.

As glad, as humble, as busy in service,

And even in love, as she was wont to be,

605 Was she to him at all times in each wise;

And of her daughter not a word spoke she.

No strange nor odd look of adversity

Was seen in her, and her dear daughter's name

She never named in earnest nor in game.

Explicit tercia pars.
Here ends the third part

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From The Clerk's Tale, lines 610-616:
After four years, Griselda gives birth to a son