Book IV. 1397, &c. 'For al Apollo and his clerkish lawes,' &c. Guido gives

rather a long account of the manner in which Criseyde upbraided her father

Chalcas at their meeting. Chaucer says nothing about this matter in Book V.

193, but he here introduces an account of the same speech, telling us that

Creseyde _intended_ to make it! I quote from Book XIX. 'Sane deceperunt te

Apollinis friuola responsa, a quo dicis te suscepisse mandatum vt tu

paternas Lares desereres, et tuos in tanta acerbitate Penates[55] sic tuis

specialiter hostibus adhereres. Sane non fuit ille deus Apollo, set, puto,

fuit comitiua infernalium Furiarum a quibus responsa talia recepisti.' Cf.

allit. Troy-book, 8103-40; and observe that Lydgate, in his Siege of Troye,

R 3, back, omits the speech of Criseyde to her father, on the ground that

it is given in Chaucer. Yet such is not the case, unless we allow the

present passage to stand for it. In Book V. 194, Chaucer (following

Boccaccio) expressly says that she was _mute_!