| | Hem thoughte she was anothir creature | |
| | For that euer vertuous was she | |
| | She was encrecid in suche excellence | |
| | Of the wyse god set in high bounte | |
| 410 | And so discreet and feir of eloquence | |
| | So benigne and digne of reuerence | |
| | And coude so the peplis hertis enbrace | |
| | That eche her loued that lokid in her face | |
| | Not only of Saluces in the toun | |
| 415 | Publisshed was the bounte of hir name | |
| | But eke beside in many a Regioun | |
| | Yf one sayde well another said the same | |
| | So spredde of her bounte the name | |
| | That men and women both yong and old | |
| 420 | Goth to Saluces vp on her to be hold | |
| | This Walter lowly but nat rially | |
| | Weddid hath with fortunat honeste | |
| | In goddis pees liuyth ful honestly | |
| | At hoom and outward grace ynough had he | |
| 425 | And for he saw that vnder low degre | |
| | Was honest vertu hid the pepyl hym held | |
| | A prudent man and that is seen ful selde | |
| | Not only this Grisilde thorow hir witt | |
| | Coude al the feet of wifly humbilnes | |
| 430 | But yet whan that the caas requiryd it | |
| | The comune proffit eke coude she redresse | |
| | Ther nas discorde rancour ne heuynesse | |
| | In al the londe that she it coude a pees | |
| | And wysely brynge hem in reste and pees | |
