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Still, all this great and moving romance would have been impossible without the idea of Cressid's successive sojourn in Troy and the Greek camp, and of her successive courtship by Troilus and by
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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With Boccaccio Pandarus is Cressid's cousin and Troilus 'youthful friend, and there is no intention of making him more offensive than are half the confidants of amorous heroes.
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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How wonderfully natural is the description of Cressid's bevy of lady-visitors, attracted by the news that she is shortly to be surrendered to the Greeks, and of the
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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By Cressid's rule; rather think this not Cressida.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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100 (41,8) [I am Cressid's uncle] I am like Pandarus.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Cressida_ itself, the allusion to the "lazar kite of Cressid's kind" in _Henry V. _ shows that he knew it) it had reached that completeness through the hands of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Henryson, the least of whom was capable of turning a comparatively barren _donnée_ into a rich possession, and who as a matter of fact each added much.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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I. i.58 (10,4) The cignet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense/Hard as the palm of ploughman!] _In comparison with_ Cressid's _hand_, says he,
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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