PATIENT GRISSEL.
Reading edition
"I wol you tell a Tale which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk As preved by his wordes and his werk: He is now ded and nailed in his cheste, I pray to God to yeve his soule reste. Fraunceis Petrark, the Laureate poete, Hight this clerk whos retherike swete Enlumined all Itaille of poetrie"—
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · "Bouchet, in his Annales d'Aquitaine, I. iii., maintains that Griselda flourished about the year 1025, and that her real history exists in mNote 2 · Of this play only two copies are known.Note 3 · so says Chaucer in the prologue to the "Clerkes Tale," but Petrarch was not the author of this ever favourite story. It seems to have been t