Of fair Cresseid, one sometime his own darling.
He throws her an alms and the poor creature dies. And so the moral sense is satisfied. There is a good deal of superfluous mythology and unnecessary verbiage in The Testament of Cresseid, but the main lines of the poem are firmly and powerfully drawn. Of all the disciples of Chaucer, from Hoccleve and the Monk of Bury down to Mr. Masefield, Henryson may deservedly claim to stand the highest.
FOOTNOTES
[1]. Collected Poems, by Edward Thomas: with a Foreword by W. de la Mare. Selwyn & Blount.
[2]. Wordsworth: an Anthology, edited, with a Preface, by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. R. Cobden-Sanderson.
[3]. Ben Jonson, by G. Gregory Smith. (English Men of Letters Series.) Macmillan, 1919.
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