Crossword-Solution: GRISELDA 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

His own play was conceived with a double design; for he had long been filled with his theory of the true story of Griselda; used to gird at Father Chaucer for his misconception; and was, perhaps first of all, moved by the desire to do justice to the Marquis of Saluces, and perhaps only in the second place, by the wish to treat a story (as he phrased it) like a sum in arithmetic.

She was ready to flounce out of the room before the Queen herself, as now she was the wife of the RIGHTFUL King of Paflagonia! She would not speak to Glumboso, whom she thought a brute, for depriving her DEAR HUSBAND of the crown! And when candles came, and she had helped to undress the Queen and Princess, she went into her own room, and actually practiced on a sheet of paper, ‘Griselda Paflagonia,’ ‘Barbara Regina,’ ‘Griselda Barbara, Paf.

And the old Archbishop, taking out his eyeglasses, read-- “‘This is to give notice, that I, Giglio, only son of Savio, King of Paflagonia, hereby promise to marry the charming Barbara Griselda, Countess Gruffanuff, and widow of the late Jenkins Gruffanuff, Esq.” ‘H’m,’ says the Archbishop, ‘the document is certainly a--a document.’ ‘Phoo!’ says the Lord Chancellor, ‘the signature is not in His Majesty’s handwriting.’ Indeed, since his studies at Bosforo, Giglio had made an immense improvement in caligraphy.

Halm's tragedy of _Griselda_ was announced for the evening, and Thorwaldsen proceeded to the theatre to witness the performance.

The translations of the whole _Decameron_ were almost everywhere preceded by those of the story of Griselda, written in Latin by Petrarch.