Clippe ich yow thus, or [elles I it mete]?'

1345

193. And, lord! so he gan goodly on hir see,

That never his look ne bleynte from hir face,

And seyde, 'O dere herte, may it be

That it be sooth, that ye ben in this place?'

'Ye, herte myn, god thank I of his grace!'

1350

Quod tho Criseyde, and therwith-al him kiste,

That where his spirit was, for Ioye he niste.