Stanza 5

Boccaccio:

La qual cosa a' suoi uomini non piaccendo, piú volte il pregaron che moglie prendesse,

but his vassals, brooking it ill, did oftentimes entreat him to take a wife


Petrarch:

Id aliquandiu taciti cum tulissent, tandem catervatim illum adeunt quorum unus cui vel autoritas maior erat vel facundia maiorque cum suo duce familiaritas,

When they had borne this for some time in silence, at length they came to him in a company; and one of their number, who had authority and eloquence above the rest and was on more familiar terms with his overlord, said to him,


Chaucer:

Oonly that point his peple bar so soore,
That flokmeele on a day they to hym wente,
And oon of hem, that wisest was of loore -
Or elles that the lord best wolde assente,
That he sholde telle hym what his peple mente,
Or elles koude he shewe wel swich mateere -
He to the markys seyde as ye shul heere:

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