“Then will I,” quoth the marquis softëly, “That in thy chamber I, and thou, and she, Have a collatión; 2498 and know’st thou why? For I will ask her, if her will it be To be my wife, and rule her after me: And all this shall be done in thy presénce, I will not speak out of thine audience.” 2499

And in the chamber while they were about The treaty, which ye shall hereafter hear, The people came into the house without, And wonder’d them in how honést mannére And tenderly she kept her father dear; But utterly Griseldis wonder might, For never erst 2500 ne saw she such a sight.