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Troilus and Cressida
[I, 2] |
Cressida |
432 |
By the same token, you are a bawd.
[Exit PANDARUS]
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.
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2 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3] |
Ulysses |
505 |
Agamemnon,
Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit.
In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks.
Besides the applause and approbation To which,
[To AGAMEMNON]
most mighty for thy place and sway,
[To NESTOR]
And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life
I give to both your speeches, which were such
As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
Should hold up high in brass, and such again
As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,
Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree
On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears
To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,
Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.
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3 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1] |
Achilles |
938 |
Nay, I must hold you.
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4 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1] |
Thersites |
971 |
I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?
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5 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 3] |
Ulysses |
1404 |
O Agamemnon, let it not be so!
We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes
When they go from Achilles: shall the proud lord
That bastes his arrogance with his own seam
And never suffers matter of the world
Enter his thoughts, save such as do revolve
And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipp'd
Of that we hold an idol more than he?
No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord
Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired;
Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,
As amply titled as Achilles is,
By going to Achilles:
That were to enlard his fat already pride
And add more coals to Cancer when he burns
With entertaining great Hyperion.
This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,
And say in thunder 'Achilles go to him.'
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Troilus and Cressida
[III, 2] |
Cressida |
1767 |
Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord,
With the first glance that ever—pardon me—
If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
I love you now; but not, till now, so much
But I might master it: in faith, I lie;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,
When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man,
Or that we women had men's privilege
Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,
For in this rapture I shall surely speak
The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws
My very soul of counsel! stop my mouth.
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7 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 2] |
Pandarus |
1848 |
Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the
witness. Here I hold your hand, here my cousin's.
If ever you prove false one to another, since I have
taken such pains to bring you together, let all
pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end
after my name; call them all Pandars; let all
constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids,
and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen.
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8 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 1] |
Paris |
2279 |
Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy:
But we in silence hold this virtue well,
We'll but commend what we intend to sell.
Here lies our way.
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9 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
Nestor |
2730 |
Now, Ajax, hold thine own!
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10 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2] |
Cressida |
3076 |
I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;
Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek.
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11 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2] |
Troilus |
3079 |
Hold, patience!
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12 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3] |
Cassandra |
3301 |
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;
But vows to every purpose must not hold:
Unarm, sweet Hector.
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13 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3] |
Hector |
3304 |
Hold you still, I say;
Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:
Lie every man holds dear; but the brave man
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.
[Enter TROILUS]
How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?
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14 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3] |
Cassandra |
3344 |
Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:
He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,
Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
Fall all together.
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15 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 4] |
Thersites |
3435 |
Hold thy whore, Grecian!—now for thy whore,
Trojan!—now the sleeve, now the sleeve!
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