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Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 265 pages

Troilus and Criseyde is Geoffrey Chaucer's long narrative poem in rhyme royal, set during the Trojan War. It follows Troilus, a Trojan prince, and his love for Criseyde, exploring courtship, fortune, and the sorrows that love can bring. Listen for its humane psychological insight and its medieval meditation on love and fate.

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TROILUS AND CRISEYDE
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Contents
BOOK I. Incipit Liber Primus
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen,  1
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his aventures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,
My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.  5
Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte
Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!
To thee clepe I, thou goddesse of torment,
Thou cruel Furie, sorwing ever in peyne;
Help me, that am the sorwful instrument  10
That helpeth lovers, as I can, to pleyne!
For wel sit it, the sothe for to seyne,

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Contents

  1. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE
  2. Contents
  3. BOOK I. Incipit Liber Primus
  4. BOOK II. Incipit Prohemium Secundi Libri.
  5. BOOK III. Incipit prohemium tercii libri.
  6. BOOK IV. Incipit Prohemium Liber Quartus.
  7. BOOK V. Incipit Liber Quintus.
  8. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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