Cressid's
“kind—The lazar kite of,”
HENRY V., ii. 1. 74.
Steevens remarks that this expression is found in Gascoigne's Dan Bartholomew of Bathe, 1587 [p. 67],
“Nor seldom seene in kites of Cressid's kinde;” and in Greene's Card of Fancy, 1601 [sig. M verso, ed. 1608]: “What courtesy is [there] to be found in such kites of Cressid's kind?” “This alludes to the punishment of Cressida for her falsehood to Troilus. She was afflicted with the leprosy, ‘like a Lazarous,’ and sent to the ‘spittel hous.’ See Chaucer's [Henryson's] Testament of Creseyde” (DOUCE ,—whom Grey has anticipated in pointing out this allusion).
“Nor seldom seene in kites of Cressid's kinde;” and in Greene's Card of Fancy, 1601 [sig. M verso, ed. 1608]: “What courtesy is [there] to be found in such kites of Cressid's kind?” “This alludes to the punishment of Cressida for her falsehood to Troilus. She was afflicted with the leprosy, ‘like a Lazarous,’ and sent to the ‘spittel hous.’ See Chaucer's [Henryson's] Testament of Creseyde” (DOUCE ,—whom Grey has anticipated in pointing out this allusion).
