| Gret honour dide hem Deiphebus, certeyn, |
| 1570 | And fedde hem wel with al that mighte lyke. |
| But ever-more, `Allas!' was his refreyn, |
| `My goode brother Troilus, the syke, |
| Lyth yet" --and therwithal he gan to sike; |
| And after that, he peyned him to glade |
| 1575 | Hem as he mighte, and chere good he made. |
| Compleyned eek Eleyne of his syknesse |
| So feithfully, that pitee was to here, |
| And every wight gan waxen for accesse |
| A leche anoon, and seyde, `In this manere |
| 1580 | Men curen folk; this charme I wol yow lere.' |
| But ther sat oon, al list hir nought to teche, |
| That thoughte, best koude I yet been his leche. |
| After compleynt, him gonnen they to preyse, |
| As folk don yet, whan som wight hath bigonne |
| 1585 | To preyse a man, and up with prys him reyse |
| A thousand fold yet hyer than the sonne: -- |
| `He is, he can, that fewe lordes conne.' |
| And Pandarus, of that they wolde afferme, |
| He not forgat hir preysing to conferme. |
| 1590 | Herde al this thing Criseyde wel ynough, |
| And every word gan for to notifye; |
| For which with sobre chere hir herte lough; |
| For who is that ne wolde hir glorifye, |
| To mowen swich a knight don live or dye? |
| 1595 | But al passe I, lest ye to longe dwelle; |
| For for o fyn is al that ever I telle. |
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