GRISLY GRISELL OR THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN
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A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES
BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE’, ETC. ETC.
London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906
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Copyright, 1893, By MACMILLAN & CO.
Men speak of Job, and for his humblesse, And clerkes when hem list can well endite, Namely of men, but as in stedfastnese Though clerkes preisin women but a lite, There can no man in humblesse him acquite As women can, nor can be half so trewe As women ben.
Chaucer, The Clerke’s Tale.
First Edition (2 Vols. Crown 8vo) 1893 Second Edition (1 Vol. Crown 8vo) 1894, 1906.