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Cressida “was a beggar,” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 1. 53. “The circumstance of making Cressid a beggar is from Chaucer [Henryson]; who, in his Testament of Creseyde, makes Saturn, at the instance of Cupid, conclude a sentence pronounc'd on her in these words,
‘great penurye
Thou suffre shalt, and as a beggar dye’”
(CAPELL) .

A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.

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