Pictures from English literature . marquis. Taking Janicolaby the hand, Walter led him aside and said, I know you are a faithfuland loving liege man. I love thy daughter, and will take her for my wifeunto my lifes end. Wilt thou take me for thy son-in-law? Abashed andall quaking, the astonished hind could only say that his lords will was the marquis called the maiden into the chamber where they sat. Grisild, he said, ye shall well understand,It liketh to your father and to me,That I you wed, and eke it may so standAs I suppose ye will that it so be :But these demandes ask I first (quo
Pictures from English literature . marquis. Taking Janicolaby the hand, Walter led him aside and said, I know you are a faithfuland loving liege man. I love thy daughter, and will take her for my wifeunto my lifes end. Wilt thou take me for thy son-in-law? Abashed andall quaking, the astonished hind could only say that his lords will was the marquis called the maiden into the chamber where they sat. Grisild, he said, ye shall well understand,It liketh to your father and to me,That I you wed, and eke it may so standAs I suppose ye will that it so be :But these demandes ask I first (quod he)That since it shall be done in hasty wise,Will ye assent, or elles you avise ? And he asked her would she be ready with good heart to do his willin all things : never to murmur, never to contradict him by word or deedor look. Trembling with fear and wonder, the maiden answered, Mylord, I am not worthy of this honour that ye offer me ; but as you so willit, I will do. And here I swear that never willingly, in work nor thought,. Griselda. 5 will I disobey you. And Walter said, This is enough, Griselda then he passed out at the door while she followed, and he said to thepeople, This is my wife that staiukth here. Honour her and love her,I pray, whoso loveth me. Then he directed the ladies to take her meangarments off her, which they did with little pleasure, being loth to handleher clothes ; and they arrayed her in new apparel, and kempt her untressedhair with their dainty fingers, and set a crown on her head and decked herwith jewels, so that the people scarcely knew her, she looked so fair andrich. The marquis thereupon espoused her with a ring, and set her on asnow-white horse, and conveyed her to his palace amid the rejoicings ofhis people. And now the fair and lowly born Griselda is a marchioness ; but by thefavour of God she carried herself with such discreetness and benignity thatall the people took her to their heart, and every one loved her that lookedon her
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