Table of Contents added by Transcriber. Contents GRISELDA GRISELDA A SOCIETY NOVEL IN RHYMED VERSE "Unnatural? My dear, these things are life: And life, some think, is worthy of the Muse." LONDON Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. LTD PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1893 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. LTD PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1893 5 5 The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved. GRISELDA GRISELDA CHAPTER I. An idle story with an idle moral! Why do I tell it, at the risk of quarrel With nobler themes? The world, alas! is so, And who would gather truth must bend him low,