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Excerpt: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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...thin the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer BOOK I The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, 1 That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge,... ...n wonne hym with to greet an ese. And preyeth for hem that ben in the cas Of Troilus, as ye may after here, 30 That love hem bringe in hevene to solas... ...e might to shewe, in som manere, Swich peyne and wo as Loves folk endure, In Troilus unsely aventure. 35 Troilus & Criseyde Chaucer 3 And biddeth ... ... wol I gon streight to my matere, In whiche ye may the double sorwes here Of Troilus, in loving of Criseyde, 55 And how that she forsook him er she de... ... wiste he, by sort, that Troye sholde Destroyed ben, ye, wolde who so nolde. Troilus & Criseyde Chaucer 4 For which, for to departen softely Took ... ..., and ye your self, in Ioye, Dwelleth with us, whyl you good list, in Troye. Troilus & Criseyde Chaucer 5 ‘And al thonour that men may doon yow ha... ...The folk of Troye hir observaunces olde, 160 Palladiones feste for to holde. Troilus & Criseyde Chaucer 6 And to the temple, in al hir beste wyse,... ...e of a tyr, and debonaire of chere, With ful assured loking and manere. This Troilus, as he was wont to gyde His yonge knightes, ladde hem up and doun...

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...A modernized translation of the poem Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy....

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BOOK I - Troilus's Love BOOK II - Love Encouraged BOOK III - The Consummation BOOK IV - The Separation BOOK V - The Betrayal

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...ng to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis; Art work: V. W. Bromley. Troilus and Cressida. Steel engraving, approximately 7 x 9.5 inches, by J... ...rsity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (written about 1603) DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM: king ... ...RESSIDA (written about 1603) DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM: king of Troy. HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS , and HELENUS: his sons. MARGARELON: a bastard... ... deformed and scurrilous Grecian. ALEXANDER: servant to Cressida. Servant to Troilus. (Boy:) Servant to Paris. Servant to Diomedes. (Servant:) HELEN... ...ek Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE: Troy, and the Grecian camp before it. 3 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA PROLOGUE In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles o... ...s but the chance of war. ACT I SCENE I: Troy. Before Priam’s palace. [Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS .] TROILUS: Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm ... ...ttle here within? Each Trojan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none. PANDARUS: Will this gear ne’er be mended? TROI... ...than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in the night Troilus and Cressida Prologue, Act I, scene i 4 And skilless as unpra... ...er. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. TROILUS: Have I not tarried? PANDARUS: Ay, the grinding; but you must t...

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...lusively a Highland army. The recent vKktory had been won eKsKlusively by Highland warriors. Great chieFs who had brought siKs or SeV en hundred Fight... ...ohemia, or away on the mountains of Beulah. And by an odd and luminous accident, if there is any page of literature calculated to awake the envy of M....

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...biding, and that may be proved by many old chronicles, of noble Ector, and Troilus, and Alisander, the mighty conqueror, and many mo other; when they ...

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...: I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this Troilus. VIOLA: I understand you, sir; tis well begged. Clown: The matte...

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...there was not any man died in his own person, videlicit, in a love cause. Troilus had his brains dashed 62 As You Like It Act IV, scene i out with a...

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... or tragical. Juliet loved. Haidee loved. Dido loved, and what came of it? Troilus loved and ceased to be a man. ’ ‘Troilus loved and he was fooled,’ ... ...as fooled,’ said the more manly chaplain. ‘A man may love and yet not be a Troilus. All women are not Cressids. ’ ‘No; all women are not Cressids. The...

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...serable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy—noble Nestor, Troilus the dauntless charioteer, and Hector who was a god among men, so ...

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... his blood.” Dryden’s Virgil, v. 623. 253 “Troilus is only once named in the Iliad; he was men- tioned also in the Cyp...

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...biding, and that may be proved by many old chronicles, of noble Ector, and Troilus, and Alisander, the mighty conqueror, and many mo other; when they ...

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... the plays which were written without great and predominant parts, such as Troilus and Cressida, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, h...

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...t wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls And sigh’d his soul toward the ...

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...; what, ho! The Taming of the Shrew: Act IV, scene i 50 Where’s my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence, And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither: ...

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...d by the time I had finished Antony and Cleopatra, read the second half of Troilus and got some way in Coriolanus, I felt it was childish to regret th...

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... sped the flying shaft. Then Peleus’ bride gave unto him the arms Of godlike Troilus, the goodliest Of all fair sons whom Hecuba had borne In hallowed...

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...sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the neighbouring cities, and kills Troilus. Patroclus carries away Lycaon to Lemnos and sells him as a slave, ...

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...e lines. As for the purely satiric ill-minded Abelard and Heloise, another Troilus, quoi! it is not pleasant, truly, but what strength, what verve, wh...

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...od Of Troy they taste, or drink the Xanthian flood. Elsewhere he saw where Troilus defied Achilles, and unequal combat tried; Then, where the boy disa...

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...therwise—that I could beat him while he railed at me.—” —Troilus and Cressida. BUT FRED DID NOT GO to Stone Court the next day, for ...