Toward hir fadre hous forth is she fare.
The folk hire folwe, wepynge in hir weye,
And Fortune ay they cursen as they goon;
But she fro wepyng kepte hire eyen dreye,
Ne in this tyme word ne spak she noon.

– Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Griselda responds with shocking calmness after Walter kicks her out of the palace to make way for his new wife. On the way to her father’s house she neither weeps nor speaks. But the people following her weep and they curse fortune. Yet it is not fortune that has brought Griselda to this low, but the shocking tyranny and abuse of power of her husband the Marquis of Saluzzo.