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
"Welaway," said she, with a narrow fork between her brows; "to most men and to all women, for being that Criseyde."
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter
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 Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
It is a comparatively small thing that the first three books of the poem should contain no hint of matrimony, though Criseyde is a widow, and of noble blood.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
Criseyde, which that alle these thinges say, To telle in short, hir lyked al y-fere His personne, his array, his look, his chere ...
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
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