Boccaccio:
la quale come Gualtier vide, chiamatala per nome, cioè Griselda,
Gualtieri no sooner saw, than he called her by her name, to wit, Griselda,
Petrarch:
Tum Valterius, cogitabundus incedens eamque compellans nomine,
Then Walter, absorbed in his own thoughts, drew near and, calling her by name,
Chaucer:
And as she wolde over hir thresshfold gon
The markys cam and gan hire for to calle,
And she set doun hir water pot anon
Biside the thresshfold in an oxes stalle,
And doun up-on hir knes she gan to falle,
And with sad contenance kneleth stille,
Til she had herd what was the lordes wille.
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