Troilus and Cressida

(Shakespeare). The story was originally written by Lollius, an old Lombard author, and since by Chaucer (Pope). Chaucer's poem is from Boccaccio's Filostrato.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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