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In Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, the relationship between Pandarus and Criseyde has raised much speculation. This applies particularly to the scene between uncle and niece on the morning after Criseyde's first night with Troilus. Pandarus visits her in the bedroom. Contrary to what Pandarus might have expected, Criseyde chides him for having arranged the affair, and
With that she gan hire face for to wryeWith the shete, and wax for shame al reed;And Pandarus gan under for to prie,And seyde, “Nece, if that I shal be ded,Have here a swerd and smyteth of myn hed!”With that his arm al sodeynly he thristeUnder hire nekke, and at the laste hire kyste.I passe al that which chargeth nought to seye.What! God foryaf his deth, and she al so