Note to As You Like It, 4.1.97: "videlicet, in a love-cause. Troilus"


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videlicet, in a love-cause. Troilus: namely, for love. The story of the love of Troilus and Cressida was very famous. Troilus loses the love of Cressida and he dies, but not of a broken heart. It was the subject of a long poem by Chaucer, and Shakespeare later wrote the play, Troilus and Cressida.






Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida in the garden of Pandarus
Edward Henry Corbould (1815 - 1905)