Stanza 36

Boccaccio:

dove trovò il padre di lei, che aveva nome Giannucole, e dissegli: "Io son venuto a sposar la Griselda,

and meeting her father, whose name was Giannucolo: "I am come," quoth he, "to wed Griselda,


Petrarch:

Venientem seniculum, manu prehensum, parumper abstraxit

When the old man was come, Walter took him by the hand and drew him a little aside;


Chaucer:

He by the hand thanne took this olde man,
And seyde thus, whan he hym hadde asyde,
"Janicula, I neither may ne kan
Lenger the plesance of myn herte hyde;
If that thou vouch sauf, what so bityde,
Thy doghter wol I take, er that I wende,
As for my wyf unto hir lyves ende.


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