Stanza 152

Boccaccio:

Le donne lietissime, levate dalle tavole, con Griselda n'andarono in camera e con migliore agurio trattile i suoi pannicelli d'una nobile roba delle sue la rivestirono; e come donna, la quale ella eziandio negli stracci pareva, nella sala la rimenarono.

Whereat the ladies, transported with delight, rose from table and betook them with Griselda to a chamber, and, with better omen, divested her of her sorry garb, and arrayed her in one of her own robes of state; and so, in guise of a lady (howbeit in her rags she had shewed as no less) they led her back into the hall.


Petrarch:

Raptimque matrone alacres ac faventes circumfuse, vilibus exutam suis, solitis vestibus induunt exornantque;

And straightway the ladies gathered about her with alacrity and affection; and when her vile apparel had been stripped off her, they clothed her in her accustomed garments and adorned her.


Chaucer:

Thise ladyes, whan that they hir tyme say,
Han taken hir and into chambre gon,
And strepen hire out of hir rude array
And in a clooth of gold that brighte shoon,
With a coroune of many a riche stoon
Upon hir heed, they into halle hir broghte,
And ther she was honured as hire oghte.


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