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- Penn State University Press
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Abstract
The Trouthe/Routhe Rhyme in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by owen boynton Set amidst the buffets and blows of the pagan world, trouthe stands impeachable throughout Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. It also rarely stands alone. It occurs fifty-four times in the poem, and on eighteen of these occasions Chaucer sets it at the end of a line and obliges it to rhyme with routhe. As several critics have noticed, routhe and trouthe coexist and touch upon one another nowhere as extensively in Chaucer's work as in Troilus. Marie Borroff writes that "this final linking of the words trouthe and routhe underscores yet again the relationship between faithfulness and compassion that is essential to the meaning of the poem."1 In her larger argument about Criseyde's routhe, Kate Bauer takes up the significance of the rhyme only when the word routhe is in Criseyde's mouth.2 Most extensively, Myra Stokes discusses it as one of the key "recurring rhymes" in the poem, focusing also on serve/disserve and mente/entente; she might also have included Troye/joye and Criseyde/deyde.3 For Stokes, the rhyme's full significance emerges only in the fifth book of the poem, where we can see "the tragically altered application of and relationship
Journal
The Chaucer Review – Penn State University Press
Published: Oct 7, 2010