And wolde hir-selven been of thyn assent?

Now is not this a nyce vanitee?

Rys up anoon, and lat this weping be,

And kyth thou art a man, for in this houre

I wil be deed, or she shal bleven oure.'

540

78. To this answerde him Troilus ful softe,

And seyde, 'parde, leve brother dere,

Al this have I my-self yet thought ful ofte,

And more thing than thou devysest here.