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.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Troilus and Criseyde we are told that the moon’s conjunction with Jupiter and Saturn caused a heavy rain.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.
If Chaucer felt this himself he must have been speedily consold by achieving in Troilus and Criseyde his greatest artistic triumph.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
Charles I., translated "Troilus and Criseyde," Cartwright congratulated him that he had at length made it possible to read Chaucer without a dictionary.
From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 De la Mare, Walter
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