So Troilus decides to have a last meeting with Criseyde before she goes, to contrive with her what is to be done.

Diomede got possession of Troilus' horse, and sent it to Criseyde; whereupon she said that Diomede might keep it for himself.

That the stanza of Troilus and Criseyde should be used for such stuff as this is unbearable.

There is more than mere graceful irony in the beautiful lines with which, a few years later, he begins his “Troilus and Criseyde.”