Stanza 20

Boccaccio:

(no analogue)


Petrarch:

et ipse nichilominus eam ipsam nuptiarum curam domesticis suis imposuit, edixitque diem.

and the marquis, on his part, laid care upon his servants for the nuptials and gave public notice of the day.


Chaucer:

And heerupon he to hise officeres
Comaundeth for the feste to purveye,
And to hise privee knyghtes and squieres
Swich charge yaf, as hym liste on hem leye.
And they to his comandement obeye,
And ech of hem dooth al his diligence
To doon unto the feeste reverence.


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