Thise ladyes, whan that they hir tyme say,
Han taken hire and into chambre gon,
And strepen hire out of hire rude array,
And in a clooth of gold that brighte shoon,
With a coroune of many a riche stoon
Upon hire heed, they into halle hire broghte,
And ther she was honured as hire oghte.
Thus hath this pitous day a blisful ende.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk’s Tale. Last time at her wedding the palace ladies didn’t like touching Griselda’s poor clothes when they had to strip her and dress her in the finery of a Marquesa. This time there is no such reluctance as poor girl is transformed into rich girl. This wedding banquet is even grander than the first one, as the ladies dress her in a cloth of gold with a crown of rich stones for her head.