Or al the night they moste bleven there.

And fer with-in the night, with many a tere,

This Troilus gan hoomward for to ryde;

For wel he seeth it helpeth nought tabyde.

170. But natheles, he gladded him in this;

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He thoughte he misacounted hadde his day,

And seyde, 'I understonde have al a-mis.

For thilke night I last Criseyde say,

She seyde, "I shal ben here, if that I may,