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Lord Walter writes a letter to Bologna to send back his children and orders not to reveal their lineage		 Previous
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From The Canterbury Tales:
The Clerk's Tale
lines 785-791: Lord Walter tests his wife Griselda once more


Sequitur pars quinta.
Here follows the fifth part


785        Among al this, after his wikke usage,
This markys yet his wyf to tempte moore
To the outtreste preeve of hir corage,
Fully to han experience and loore,
If that she were as stidefast as bifoore,
790He on a day in open audience
Ful boistously hath seyd hir this sentence.
785        Meanwhile, according to his wicked way,
This marquis, still to test his wife once more,
Even to the final proof of her, I say,
Fully to have experience to the core
If she were yet as steadfast as before,
790He on a day in open audience
Loudly said unto her this rude sentence:




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Walter says he wishes to remarry and he asks Griselda to return to her father's house		 Next