P attempts to adjust Troilus' understanding of their relationship, and of T's relationship to Criseyde, especially with respect to uses of language. How might a feudal audience have understood the strains and risks of this kind of arrangement. Note the stanza break and Narrator's apostrophe to Fortune that follows. Then C delivers her speech intended, she thinks , to assuage T's jealous despair.
P turns down the lights to save the poor lovers' vision, and they embrace.
Boethius in Middle English translation from the Latin. Chaucer's Narrator ends Book III as he began, with a two-stanza apostrophe to Venus and the muses, thanking them for guiding him this far.