Boccaccio:
(no analogue)
Petrarch:
Instabat nuptiarum dies; unde autem ventura sponsa esset, nemo noverat, nemo non mirabatur.
The day of the nuptials drew on, but no one knew whence the bride should come, and there was no one who did not wonder.
Chaucer:
The day of weddyng cam, but no wight kan
Telle what womman that it sholde be,
For which merveille wondred many a man,
And seyden, whan that they were in privetee,
"Wol nat oure lord yet leve his vanytee?
Wol he nat wedde? Allas, allas, the while!
Why wole he thus hymself and us bigile?"
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