Boccaccio:
No analogue
Petrarch:
Ingressi igitur, expectante populo ac mirante; puellam circa patris obsequium satagentem et insolito tanti hospitis adventu stupidam invenere,
They entered the house, therefore, while the populace stood expectant and wondering, and found the maiden busying herself about her father's service and abashed by the unexpected advent of so great a throng of strangers.
Chaucer:
And in the chambre whil they were aboute
Hir tretys which as ye shal after heere,
The peple cam unto the hous withoute,
And wondred hem in how honeste manere
And tentifly she kepte hir fader deere.
But outrely Grisildis wondre myghte
For nevere erst ne saugh she swich a sighte.
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