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Troilus And Criseyde
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 1385
- Originally in
- Originally in Middle english
- Pages
- Pages 280
"The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen": Chaucer announces the grief in his first line, then spends eight thousand lines of rhyme royal wishing he had been wrong. Inside besieged Troy, a prince who laughs at lovers catches sight of a widow in black across a crowded temple, and the laughter stops for good.
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, / That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
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