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... Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ( based mainly on Boccaccio ) . Their story was also the subject of Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida . See also Troy , me- dieval legends of . Troilus ( minor planet 1208 ) : see Trojan planets ...
... Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ( based mainly on Boccaccio ) . Their story was also the subject of Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida . See also Troy , me- dieval legends of . Troilus ( minor planet 1208 ) : see Trojan planets ...
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... Chaucer . A 19th- century critic , T.R. Lonsbury , said of him : " The sanest of English poets had the good fortune ... Chaucer's reputation had suffered because the principles on which his verse depends were no longer understood ; it ...
... Chaucer . A 19th- century critic , T.R. Lonsbury , said of him : " The sanest of English poets had the good fortune ... Chaucer's reputation had suffered because the principles on which his verse depends were no longer understood ; it ...
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... Chaucer used it to mean a lavatory , and for some time it signified not a piece of furniture but a room or apart- ment ; in medieval England , for instance , the king's wardrobe was the centre of a good deal of administrative machinery ...
... Chaucer used it to mean a lavatory , and for some time it signified not a piece of furniture but a room or apart- ment ; in medieval England , for instance , the king's wardrobe was the centre of a good deal of administrative machinery ...
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