Transcribed from the 1906 Macmillan and Co. edition by DavidPrice,
GRISLY GRISELL
OR
THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN
A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OFREDCLYFFE’, ETC. ETC.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1893,
By MACMILLAN & CO.
Men speak of Job, and for his humblesse,
And clerkes when hem list can well endite,
Namely of men, but as in stedfastnese
Though clerkes preisin women but a lite,
There can no man in humblesse him acquite
As women can, nor can be half so trewe
As women ben.Chaucer,The Clerke’s Tale.
First Edition (2 Vols.Crown 8vo) 1893
Second Edition (1 Vol. Crown 8vo) 1894,1906.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER |
| PAGE |
I. | An Explosion | |
II. | The Broken Match | |
III. | The Mirror | |
IV. | Parting | |
V. | Sister Avice | |
VI. | The Proctor | |
VII. | The Pilgrim of Salisbury | |
VIII. | Old Playfellows |