/ · 1894 Brewer’s · T · Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare)
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The story was originally written by Lollius, an old Lombard author, and since by Chaucer (Pope). Chaucer’s poem is from Boccaccio’s Filostrato.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.