Griselda

Griselda, also Griseldis, was a famous heroine of mediæval tradition. She figures in Boccaccio, Petrarch, and Chaucer, and in later dramatists of England, Germany, and Spain. She was the beautiful daughter of a Piedmontese peasant and was loved and married by the Marquis Walter of Saluzzo. However, his jealous affection subjected her to several cruel tests of love, which she bore with "wyfly pacience," and in the end "love was aye between them twa."

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