Criseyde
Britishnoun
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"Go, litel book!" wrote Chaucer at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, sending his work on a journey that no man could complete.
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But they are not better in this respect than Troilus and Criseyde, which is the chief thing in Chaucer’s Italian period.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker
Yet he once called Troilus and Criseyde "a somewhat dull poem."
From Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball
Y-wis, my dere herte, I am nought wrooth, Have here my trouthe and many another ooth; Now speek to me, for it am I, Criseyde!
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare
This Troilus was present in the place, Whan axed was for Antenor Criseyde, For which ful sone chaungen gan his face, 150 As he that with tho wordes wel neigh deyde.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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