troilus and criseyde-第23部分
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Shoop me to ben a lyves creature!'
But after; whan the furie and the rage
Which that his herte twiste and faste threste;
By lengthe of tyme somwhat gan asswage; 255
Up…on his bed he leyde him doun to reste;
But tho bigonne his teres more out…breste;
That wonder is; the body may suffyse
To half this wo; which that I yow devyse。
Than seyde he thus; ‘Fortune! Allas the whyle! 260
What have I doon; what have I thus a…gilt?
How mightestow for reuthe me bigyle?
Is ther no grace; and shal I thus be spilt?
Shal thus Criseyde awey; for that thou wilt?
Allas! How maystow in thyn herte finde 265
To been to me thus cruel and unkinde?
‘Have I thee nought honoured al my lyve;
As thou wel wost; above the goddes alle?
Why wiltow me fro Ioye thus depryve?
O Troilus; what may men now thee calle 270
But wrecche of wrecches; out of honour falle
In…to miserie; in which I wol biwayle
Criseyde; allas! Til that the breeth me fayle?
‘Allas; Fortune! If that my lyf in Ioye
Displesed hadde un…to thy foule envye; 275
Why ne haddestow my fader; king of Troye;
By…raft the lyf; or doon my bretheren dye;
Or slayn my…self; that thus compleyne and crye;
I; combre…world; that may of no…thing serve;
But ever dye; and never fully sterve? 280
‘If that Criseyde allone were me laft;
Nought roughte I whider thou woldest me stere;
And hir; allas! Than hastow me biraft。
But ever…more; lo! This is thy manere;
To reve a wight that most is to him dere; 285
To preve in that thy gerful violence。
Thus am I lost; ther helpeth no defence!
‘O verray lord of love; O god; allas!
That knowest best myn herte and al my thought;
What shal my sorwful lyf don in this cas 290
If I for…go that I so dere have bought?
Sin ye Cryseyde and me han fully brought
In…to your grace; and bothe our hertes seled;
How may ye suffre; allas! It be repeled?
‘What I may doon; I shal; whyl I may dure 295
On lyve in torment and in cruel peyne;
This infortune or this disaventure;
Allone as I was born; y…wis; compleyne;
Ne never wil I seen it shyne or reyne;
But ende I wil; as Edippe; in derknesse 300
My sorwful lyf; and dyen in distresse。
‘O wery goost; that errest to and fro;
Why niltow fleen out of the wofulleste
Body; that ever mighte on grounde go?
O soule; lurkinge in this wo; unneste; 305
Flee forth out of myn herte; and lat it breste;
And folwe alwey Criseyde; thy lady dere;
Thy righte place is now no lenger here!
‘O wofulle eyen two; sin your disport
Was al to seen Criseydes eyen brighte; 310
What shal ye doon but; for my discomfort;
Stonden for nought; and wepen out your sighte?
Sin she is queynt; that wont was yow to lighte;
In veyn fro…this…forth have I eyen tweye
Y…formed; sin your vertue is a…weye。 315
‘O my Criseyde; O lady sovereyne
Of thilke woful soule that thus cryeth;
Who shal now yeven comfort to the peyne?
Allas; no wight; but when myn herte dyeth;
My spirit; which that so un…to yow hyeth; 320
Receyve in gree; for that shal ay yow serve;
For…thy no fors is; though the body sterve。
‘O ye loveres; that heighe upon the wheel
Ben set of Fortune; in good aventure;
God leve that ye finde ay love of steel; 325
And longe mot your lyf in Ioye endure!
But whan ye comen by my sepulture;
Remembreth that your felawe resteth there;
For I lovede eek; though I unworthy were。
‘O olde; unholsom; and mislyved man; 330
Calkas I mene; allas! What eyleth thee
To been a Greek; sin thou art born Troian?
O Calkas; which that wilt my bane be;
In cursed tyme was thou born for me!
As wolde blisful Iove; for his Ioye; 335
That I thee hadde; where I wolde; in Troye!'
A thousand sykes; hottere than the glede;
Out of his brest ech after other wente;
Medled with pleyntes newe; his wo to fede;
For which his woful teres never stente; 340
And shortly; so his peynes him to…rente;
And wex so mat; that Ioye nor penaunce
He feleth noon; but lyth forth in a traunce。
Pandare; which that in the parlement
Hadde herd what every lord and burgeys seyde; 345
And how ful graunted was; by oon assent;
For Antenor to yelden so Criseyde;
Gan wel neigh wood out of his wit to breyde;
So that; for wo; he niste what he mente;
But in a rees to Troilus he wente。 350
A certeyn knight; that for the tyme kepte
The chaumbre…dore; un…dide it him anoon;
And Pandare; that ful tendreliche wepte;
In…to the derke chaumbre; as stille as stoon;
Toward the bed gan softely to goon; 355
So confus; that he niste what to seye;
For verray wo his wit was neigh aweye。
And with his chere and loking al to…torn;
For sorwe of this; and with his armes folden;
He stood this woful Troilus biforn; 360
And on his pitous face he gan biholden;
But lord; so often gan his herte colden;
Seing his freend in wo; whos hevinesse
His herte slow; as thoughte him; for distresse。
This woful wight; this Troilus; that felte 365
His freend Pandare y…comen him to see;
Gan as the snow ayein the sonne melte;
For which this sorwful Pandare; of pitee;
Gan for to wepe as tendreliche as he;
And specheles thus been thise ilke tweye; 370
That neyther mighte o word for sorwe seye。
But at the laste this woful Troilus;
Ney deed for smert; gan bresten out to rore;
And with a sorwful noyse he seyde thus;
Among his sobbes and his sykes sore; 375
‘Lo! Pandare; I am deed; with…outen more。
Hastow nought herd at parlement;' he seyde;
‘For Antenor how lost is my Criseyde?'
This Pandarus; ful deed and pale of hewe;
Ful pitously answerde and seyde; ‘Yis! 380
As wisly were it fals as it is trewe;
That I have herd; and wot al how it is。
O mercy; god; who wolde have trowed this?
Who wolde have wend that; in so litel a throwe;
Fortune our Ioye wolde han over…throwe? 385
‘For in this world ther is no creature;
As to my doom; that ever saw ruyne
Straungere than this; thorugh cas or aventure。
But who may al eschewe; or al devyne?
Swich is this world; for…thy I thus defyne; 390
Ne trust no wight to finden in Fortune
Ay propretee; hir yeftes been comune。
‘But tel me this; why thou art now so mad
To sorwen thus? Why lystow in this wyse;
Sin thy desyr al holly hastow had; 395
So that; by right; it oughte y…now suffyse?
But I; that never felte in my servyse
A frendly chere or loking of an ye;
Lat me thus wepe and wayle; til I dye。
‘And over al this; as thou wel wost thy…selve; 400
This town is ful of ladies al aboute;
And; to my doom; fairer than swiche twelve
As ever she was; shal I finde; in som route;
Ye; oon or two; with…outen any doute。
For…thy be glad; myn owene dere brother; 405
If she be lost; we shal recovere another。
‘What; god for…bede alwey that ech plesaunce
In o thing were; and in non other wight!
If oon can singe; another can wel daunce;
If this be goodly; she is glad and light; 410
And this is fayr; and that can good a…right。
Ech for his vertu holden is for dere;
Bothe heroner and faucon for rivere。
‘And eek; as writ Zanzis; that was ful wys;
〃The newe love out chaceth ofte the olde;〃 415
And up…on newe cas lyth newe avys。
Thenk eek; thy…self to saven artow holde;
Swich fyr; by proces; shal of kinde colde。
For sin it is but casuel plesaunce;
Som cas shal putte it out of remembraunce。 420
‘For al…so seur as day cometh after night;
The newe love; labour or other wo;
Or elles selde seinge of a wight;
Don olde affecciouns alle over…go。
And; for thy part; thou shalt have oon of tho 425
To abrigge with thy bittre peynes smerte;
Absence of hir shal dryve hir out of herte。'
Thise wordes seyde he for the nones alle;
To helpe his freend; lest he for sorwe deyde。
For douteles; to doon his wo to falle; 430
He roughte not what unthrift that he seyde。
But Troilus; that neigh for sorwe deyde;
Tok litel hede of al that ever he mente;
Oon ere it herde; at the other out it wente:
But at the laste answerde and seyde; ‘Freend; 435
This lechecraft; or heled thus to be;
Were wel sitting; if that I were a feend;
To traysen hir that trewe is unto me!
I pray god; lat this consayl never y…thee;
But do me rather sterve anon…right here 440
Er I thus do as thou me woldest lere。
‘She that I serve; y…wis; what so thou seye;
To whom myn herte enhabit is by right;
Shal han me holly hires til that I deye。
For; Pandarus; sin I have trouthe hir hight; 445
I wol not been untrewe for no wight;
But as hir man I wol ay live and sterve;
And never other creature serve。
‘And ther thou seyst; thou shalt as faire finde
As she; lat be; make no comparisoun 450
To creature y…formed here by kinde。
O leve Pandare; in conclusioun;
I wol not be of thyn opinioun;
Touching al this; for whiche I thee biseche;
So hold thy pees; thou sleest me with thy speche。 455
‘Thow biddest me I sholde love an…other
Al freshly newe; and lat Criseyde go!
It lyth not in my power; leve brother。
And though I mighte; I wolde not do so。
But canstow pleyen raket; to and fro; 460
Netle in; dokke out; now this; now that; Pandare?
Now foule falle hir; for thy wo that care!
‘Thow farest eek by me; thou Pandarus;
As he; that whan a wight is wo bi…goon;
He cometh to him a pas; and seyth right thus; 465
〃Thenk not on smert; and thou shalt fele noon。〃
Thou most me first transmuwen in a stoon;
And reve me my passiounes alle;
Er thou so lightly do my wo to falle。
‘The deeth may wel out of my brest departe 470
The lyf; so longe may this sorwe myne;
But fro my soule shal Criseydes darte
Out never…mo; but doun with Proserpyne;
Whan I am deed; I wol go wone in pyne;
And ther I wol eternaly compleyne 475
My wo; and how that twinned be we tweyne。
‘Thow hast here maad an argument; for fyn;
How that it sholde a lasse peyne be
Criseyde to for…goon; for she was myn;
And