Criseyde

British  

/ krɪˈseɪdə /

noun

1. a variant of Cressida

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Example Sentences

She brings me books from the convent library: a history of the wars in France, and a volume of the English poet Chaucer, containing The Legend of Good Women and The Tale of Troilus and Criseyde, translated into French.

From Literature

For another, it likes Gander’s response when asked if the poem’s opening lines were an allusion to the traditional invocation of the muse found in Homer, Virgil, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the prologue of Henry V and the opening of Paradise Lost: “No. Er, yes.”

From The Guardian

What Chaucer succeeds in doing in “Troilus and Criseyde”—reminding us of the existence of his poetic ancestors and at the same time leaving us enthralled by the freshness of his verse tale— cannot be done by just anyone.

From Salon

Perhaps he should dedicate it to his new young leader – just as our own classics scholar, Vic Marks, did to his captain, Leicestershire's then goldilocks, with his book on the 1984‑85 tour: nicely from Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde: "O moral Gower, this booke I direkte to thee."

From The Guardian

When Criseyde leaves Troilus to go to the Greek army she promises to return to Troy within the time that it will take the moon to pass from Aries through Leo, that is, within ten days: “‘And trusteth this, that certes, herte swete, Er Phebus suster, Lucina the shene, The Leoun passe out of this Ariete, I wol ben here, with-outen any wene.

From Project Gutenberg