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cressida
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Cressida (; also Criseida , Cresseid or Criseyde ) is a character who appears in many Medieval and Renaissance retellings of the story of the Trojan War . She is a Trojan woman, the daughter of Calchas , a Greek seer. She falls in love with Troilus , the ...
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He has a daughter, Cressida, almost sixteen and ripe for the marriage bed.
She wore a slightly outmoded gown in heavy cranberry velvet and, like Cressida, she had put off her veiled hennin in favour of a more embroidered linen cap, from which her still fair hair curled at the front and sides.
It seems he has heard of your coming sixteenth birthday, Cressida, and wishes you to be presented to his Queen, on the understanding that you might enter her household as a lady-in-waiting--until your marriage, that is.
Despite her earlier forebodings, Cressida was excited by the new sights and experiences, though Alice grumbled almost every step of the way.
The roads were hard-rutted and the weather chilly without excessive frost, the sun watery on most days and low in the sky, but, despite the barrenness of the brown earth fields, and the stark, skeletal branches of trees arching over their heads, Cressida rejoiced in the sights of the rolling English country they passed through.
Sir John Paynton, and it was here that Cressida celebrated her sixteenth birthday on the twenty-eighth of November.
It was a joyous occasion and she was made much of by her burly uncle, who had longed for a daughter, his wife having given him four sturdy sons, two of whom were older than Cressida and the two remaining still too young to be sent into the households of neighbouring gentry to e trained as pages.
Reluctantly Cressida left her post of vantage where, at least, she could watch the novel sights below, and came to remove her travelling gown and lie down, as her mother had recommended.
Alice had already settled to rest and Cressida did not want to bother her with the back lacing of her gown, but she experienced some difficulty in trying to manage it unaided.
The broad courtyard was bordered on two sides by long, low outbuildings which Cressida judged to be stables and mews.
The des triers pawed the ground impatiently and Cressida saw that the men needed all their skill to control the powerful beasts.
The second man prepared to follow, but Cressida must have made some sound or movement for he turned sharply in her direction.
Head held down and panting, Cressida could do nothing but try to regain her breath.
Alice was awake and already panicking when Cressida reached her bedchamber.
She stood, arms akimbo, facing Cressida, who was struggling with the refractory laces of her travelling gown.