Note 632 — Chapter XXV · HUMANISM AND MEDIAEVALISM
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Chaucer, Monk’s Prologue, (C. T. 13,999):
‘Or elles first Tragedies wol I telle Of whiche I have an hundred in my celle. Tragedie is to seyn a certeyn storie, As olde bokes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in greet prosperitee And is y-fallen out of heigh degree Into miserie, and endeth wrecchedly.’
Cf. the gloss in his Boethius, ii. pr. 2, 78, to the passage already quoted on p. 20; and the description of Troilus in T. C. v. 1786.