Boccaccio:
e domandolla
He then asked her,
Petrarch:
quam his verbis Valterius aggreditur: «Et patri tuo placet» inquit «et michi ut uxor mea sis. Credo id ipsum tibi placeat, sed habeo ex te querere, ubi hoc peractum fuerit quod mox erit,
Walter, approaching her, addressed her in these words: "It is your father's pleasure and mine that you shall be my wife. I believe that this will please you, too. But I have one thing to ask you: when that is done which shortly shall take place,
Chaucer:
"Grisilde," he seyde, "ye shal wel understonde
It liketh to youre fader and to me
That I yow wedde, and eek it may so stonde,
As, I suppose, ye wol that it so be.
But thise demandes axe I first," quod he,
"That sith it shal be doon in hastif wyse,
Wol ye assente, or elles yow avyse?
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