Dulcarnon

Dulcarnon is one of those words in Chaucer which Tyrwhitt professes that he does not understand. It occurs in *Trolius and Creseide*, book iii. 931.933. Creseide says:— "I am, til God me better minde sende, At Dulcarnon, right at my witt'is ende. Quod Pandarus ye nece, wol ye here, Dulcarnon clepid is fleming[3] of wretches." This passage of *Trolius and Creseide* is quoted in the life of Sir Thomas More, given in Wordsworth's *Ecclesiastical Biography*. More's daughter said to him, when he was in prison, "Father, I can no further goe; I am come, as Chaucer said of Cressid Dulcarnon, to my wit…