Crossword-Solution: DEDE 4 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Now hadde Calkas left, in this meschaunce, Al unwist of this false and wikked dede, His doughter, which that was in gret penaunce, For of hir lyf she was ful sore in drede, 95 As she that niste what was best to rede; For bothe a widowe was she, and allone Of any freend to whom she dorste hir mone.

Dede were his Iapes and his crueltee, His heighe port and his manere estraunge, And ech of tho gan for a vertu chaunge.

But in him-self with manhod gan restreyne Ech rakel dede and ech unbrydled chere, That alle tho that liven, sooth to seyne, 430 Ne sholde han wist, by word or by manere, What that he mente, as touching this matere.

Wherfor I seye, that from eterne if he Hath wist biforn our thought eek as our dede, We have no free chois, as these clerkes rede.

For which Criseyde up-on him gan biholde, And gan him in hir armes faste folde, 1230 And seyde, `O mercy, god, lo, which a dede! Allas! How neigh we were bothe dede! `Thanne if I ne hadde spoken, as grace was, Ye wolde han slayn your-self anoon?' quod she.