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Updated: May 18, 2025
The courtiers look on and say, "Dear, dear, what very strange things do happen!" Act III. Scene I. Outside Giannucole's farm. The Marquis below. Griseldis at the balcony. He says, "I want to hire you as a maid." "Yes, my Lord." Scene II. A portico, with a large company at dinner. The Marquis introduces his supposed bride and brother-in-law, in reality his own children.
And it is life that he loves the delicacy of its sentiment, the breadth of its farce, its laughter and its tears, the tenderness of its Griseldis or the Smollett-like adventures of the miller and the clerks.
She tightens her white shift about her, and doesn't dare look at the cloth of gold dress which is so pretty. Scene IV. A triumphal arch, with four gilt figures. The Marquis daintily, with much wrist-twisting, offers to put the ring on Griseldis' hand, who obediently accepts, while pages and trumpeters hold the Marquis's three horses. Act II. Scene I. A portico.
Learning is there in the portly person of the doctor of physics, rich with the profits of the pestilence the busy sergeant-of-law, 'that ever seemed busier than he was' the hollow-cheeked clerk of Oxford with his love of books and short sharp sentences that disguise a latent tenderness which breaks out at last in the story of Griseldis.
So also are parts of one of the most affecting passages in the "Clerk's Tale" Griseldis' farewell to her daughter. But it is as unnecessary to lay a finger upon lines and passages illustrating Chaucer's pathos, as upon others illustrating his humour.
Thorwaldsen was there and was unusually lively, told stories, and spoke of a journey that he intended to make to Italy in the course of the summer. Cahn's tragedy of "Griseldis" was to be performed for the first time that evening at the theatre.
The Marquis steps forward to Grizel with hands raised, "After this kind of behaviour, it is quite impossible for me to live with you any longer." Griseldis is ladylike and resigned. The Marquis says with acrimonious politeness, "I am sorry, madam, I must trouble you to restore to me those garments before departing from my house."
The statement of the "Clerk" in the "Canterbury Tales" that he learnt the story of patient Griseldis "at Padua of a worthy clerk...now dead," who was called "Francis Petrarch, the laureate poet," may of course merely imply that Chaucer borrowed the "Clerk's Tale" from Petrarch's Latin version of the original by Boccaccio.
On Conjugal Love the classic models are first consulted, Oenone, Evadne, Medea, these characters being followed through the delineation of modern dramatists. We know of no more exquisite criticism than the pages devoted to Griseldis. Analyzing the accounts of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Perault, our author concludes with the play of "Munck Bellinghausen."
Griseldis reluctantly, but obediently, gives up her baby. Scene II. A conspirator in black cloak and red stockings walks off with it on the tips of his toes, and then returns and tells the Marquis that his Magnificence's orders have been executed. Scene III. Giannucole, father of Griseldis, having been sent for, arrives in his best Sunday cloak.
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