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6 - Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2006

Piero Boitani
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Jill Mann
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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At a crucial moment in Book ii of Troilus and Criseyde, Criseyde is left alone to reflect on Pandarus's astonishing revelation that Troilus is dying with love for her. And as chance would have it, at this very moment Troilus rides past her window.

But as she sat allone and thoughte thus,

Ascry aros at scarmuch al withoute,

And men criden in the strete, ‘Se, Tr

Hath right now put to flighte the Grekes route!’

With that gan al hire meyne for to shoute,

‘A, go we se! Cast up the yates wyde!

For thorwgh this strete he moot to paleys ride;

For other wey is fro the yate noon

Of Dardanus, there opyn is the cheyne.’

With that com he and al his folk anoon

An esy pas rydyng, in routes tweyne,

Right as his happy day was, sooth to seyne,

For which, men seyn, may nought destourbed be

That shal bityden of necessitee.

(610–23)
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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