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Updated: May 7, 2025
"In such a night Troilus mounted the Trojan walls and sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents where Cressid lay." She watches the fireflies respiring in phosphorescent flame amid the clover blooms, while you watch her and twine a spray of honeysuckle in her hair. Your clumsy fingers unloose the guards and her fragrant tresses, caught up by the cool night wind, float about your face.
Beware ye women of your subtle foe, Since yet this day men may example see And as in love trust ye no man but me. first father that began The love of two, and was in bigamy. This poem seems designed to illustrate much the same moral as that enforced by the "Legend of Good Women" a moral which, by-the-bye, is already foreshadowed towards the close of "Troilus and Cressid," where Chaucer speaks of
Think of what that arch-knave Shakespeare says a plague on him, his toys come into my head when I should think of other matters. Stay, how goes it? 'Cressid was yours, tied with the bonds of heaven; These bonds of heaven are slipt, dissolved, and loosed, And with another knot five fingers tied, The fragments of her faith are bound to Diomed.
Gawin Douglas in his "Palace of Honour," and Henryson in his "Testament of Cressid" and elsewhere, are followers of the southern master.
His own heart, he says, bleeds and his pen quakes to write what must be written of the falsehood of Cressid, which was her doom. Chaucer's nature, however tried, was unmistakeably one gifted with the blessed power of easy self-recovery.
Towards the close of his "Troilus and Cressid," he thus addresses his "little book," in fear of the mangling it might undergo from scriveners who might blunder in the copying of its words, or from reciters who might maltreat its verse in the distribution of the accents:
A very Cressid, with a cross of Corinne! Should she be like her of Troy? At all events, it can do no harm to see what she's made of! "But I must manage warily. I have something to lose in the business. Frankfort is but fifty miles from Charlemont fifty miles and there's Ellisland, but fourteen. Fourteen! an easy afternoon ride. That way it must be done. Ellisland shall be my post-town.
"'On such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees And they did make no noise, on such a night Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls And sighed his soul towards the Grecian tents Where Cressid lay!" "You know your Shakespeare!" said Rivardi. "Who would not know him!" replied Aloysius "One is not blind to the sun!"
"As men see in town, and all about, that women are accustomed to visit their friends," so a swarm of ladies came to Cressid, "and sat themselves down, and said as I shall tell.
Troilus and Cressid, the hero sinned against and the sinning heroine, are the VICTIMS OF FATE. Who shall cast a stone against those who are, but like the rest of us, predestined to their deeds and to their doom; since the co-existence of free-will with predestination does not admit of proof?
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