Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Troilus and Cressida"
Total: 164

1

I,1,32

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS]

2

I,1,118

Pandarus. Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I
found it, and there an end.

(stage directions). [Exit PANDARUS. An alarum]

3

I,1,135

Troilus. Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument;
It is too starved a subject for my sword.
But Pandarus,—O gods, how do you plague me!
I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar;
And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo.
As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.
Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love,
What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?
Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:
Between our Ilium and where she resides,
Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,
Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar
Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark.

(stage directions). [Alarum. Enter AENEAS]

4

I,1,145

Troilus. Let Paris bleed; 'tis but a scar to scorn;
Paris is gored with Menelaus' horn.

(stage directions). [Alarum]

5

I,1,151

Troilus. Come, go we then together.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

6

I,2,152

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CRESSIDA and ALEXANDER]

7

I,2,193

Alexander. Madam, your uncle Pandarus.

(stage directions). [Enter PANDARUS]

8

I,2,322

Cressida. And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle
against May.

(stage directions). [A retreat sounded]

9

I,2,331

Cressida. Speak not so loud.

(stage directions). [AENEAS passes]

10

I,2,335

Pandarus. That's AEneas: is not that a brave man? he's one of
the flowers of Troy, I can tell you: but mark
Troilus; you shall see anon.

(stage directions). [ANTENOR passes]

11

I,2,345

Cressida. If he do, the rich shall have more.

(stage directions). [HECTOR passes]

12

I,2,366

Pandarus. Swords! any thing, he cares not; an the devil come
to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's
heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris.
[PARIS passes]
Look ye yonder, niece; is't not a gallant man too,
is't not? Why, this is brave now. Who said he came
hurt home to-day? he's not hurt: why, this will do
Helen's heart good now, ha! Would I could see
Troilus now! You shall see Troilus anon.

(stage directions). [HELENUS passes]

13

I,2,375

Cressida. What sneaking fellow comes yonder?

(stage directions). [TROILUS passes]

14

I,2,390

Cressida. Here come more.

(stage directions). [Forces pass]

15

I,2,421

Pandarus. You are such another!

(stage directions). [Enter Troilus's Boy]

16

I,2,448

Cressida. 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.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

17

I,3,449

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES,]
MENELAUS, and others]

18

I,3,666

Nestor. Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse
Makes many Thetis' sons.

(stage directions). [A tucket]

19

I,3,669

Menelaus. From Troy.

(stage directions). [Enter AENEAS]

20

I,3,771

Agamemnon. Fair Lord AEneas, let me touch your hand;
To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir.
Achilles shall have word of this intent;
So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent:
Yourself shall feast with us before you go
And find the welcome of a noble foe.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR]

21

I,3,856

Nestor. Ulysses,
Now I begin to relish thy advice;
And I will give a taste of it forthwith
To Agamemnon: go we to him straight.
Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

22

II,1,857

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AJAX and THERSITES]

23

II,1,911

Thersites. Mars his idiot! do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do.

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]

24

II,1,935

Thersites. I say, this Ajax—

(stage directions). [Ajax offers to beat him]

25

II,1,976

Thersites. I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come
any more to your tents: I will keep where there is
wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.

(stage directions). [Exit]

26

II,1,988

Ajax. O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

27

II,2,989

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS]

28

II,2,1095

Hector. It is Cassandra.

(stage directions). [Enter CASSANDRA, raving]

29

II,2,1108

Cassandra. Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,
Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,
Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes
A moiety of that mass of moan to come.
Cry, Trojans, cry! practise your eyes with tears!
Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand;
Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all.
Cry, Trojans, cry! a Helen and a woe:
Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go.

(stage directions). [Exit]

30

II,2,1213

Hector. I am yours,
You valiant offspring of great Priamus.
I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
The dun and factious nobles of the Greeks
Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits:
I was advertised their great general slept,
Whilst emulation in the army crept:
This, I presume, will wake him.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

31

II,3,1214

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter THERSITES, solus]

32

II,3,1237

Thersites. How now, Thersites! what lost in the labyrinth of
thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He
beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy satisfaction!
would it were otherwise; that I could beat him,
whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to
conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of
my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a
rare enginer! If Troy be not taken till these two
undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of
themselves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus,
forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and,
Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy
caduceus, if ye take not that little, little less
than little wit from them that they have! which
short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant
scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly
from a spider, without drawing their massy irons and
cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the
whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that,
methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war
for a placket. I have said my prayers and devil Envy
say Amen. What ho! my Lord Achilles!

(stage directions). [Enter PATROCLUS]

33

II,3,1251

Thersites. Ay: the heavens hear me!

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES]

34

II,3,1283

Achilles. Patroclus, I'll speak with nobody.
Come in with me, Thersites.

(stage directions). [Exit]

35

II,3,1289

Thersites. Here is such patchery, such juggling and such
knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a
whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions
and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo on
the subject! and war and lechery confound all!

(stage directions). [Exit]

36

II,3,1290

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and AJAX]

37

II,3,1300

Patroclus. I shall say so to him.

(stage directions). [Exit]

38

II,3,1307

Ajax. Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it
melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my
head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the
cause. A word, my lord.

(stage directions). [Takes AGAMEMNON aside]

39

II,3,1320

Ulysses. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily
untie. Here comes Patroclus.

(stage directions). [Re-enter PATROCLUS]

40

II,3,1359

Patroclus. I shall; and bring his answer presently.

(stage directions). [Exit]

41

II,3,1362

Agamemnon. In second voice we'll not be satisfied;
We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you.

(stage directions). [Exit ULYSSES]

42

II,3,1381

Nestor. Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?

(stage directions). [Aside]

43

II,3,1382

(stage directions). [Aside]

(stage directions). [Re-enter ULYSSES]

44

II,3,1491

Agamemnon. Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep:
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

45

III,1,1492

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter a Servant and PANDARUS]

46

III,1,1534

Servant. Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed!

(stage directions). [Enter PARIS and HELEN, attended]

47

III,1,1632

Pandarus. I will, sweet queen.

(stage directions). [Exit]

48

III,1,1633

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [A retreat sounded]

49

III,1,1646

Paris. Sweet, above thought I love thee.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

50

III,2,1647

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PANDARUS and Troilus's Boy, meeting]

51

III,2,1655

Troilus. Sirrah, walk off.

(stage directions). [Exit Boy]

52

III,2,1666

Pandarus. Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.

(stage directions). [Exit]

53

III,2,1679

Troilus. I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense: what will it be,
When that the watery palate tastes indeed
Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,
Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine,
Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,
For the capacity of my ruder powers:
I fear it much; and I do fear besides,
That I shall lose distinction in my joys;
As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps
The enemy flying.

(stage directions). [Re-enter PANDARUS]

54

III,2,1686

Pandarus. She's making her ready, she'll come straight: you
must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches
her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a
sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest
villain: she fetches her breath as short as a
new-ta'en sparrow.

(stage directions). [Exit]

55

III,2,1692

Troilus. Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:
My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse;
And all my powers do their bestowing lose,
Like vassalage at unawares encountering
The eye of majesty.

(stage directions). [Re-enter PANDARUS with CRESSIDA]

56

III,2,1713

Pandarus. Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll
bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your
activity in question. What, billing again? Here's
'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably'—
Come in, come in: I'll go get a fire.

(stage directions). [Exit]

57

III,2,1751

Cressida. Will you walk in, my lord?

(stage directions). [Re-enter PANDARUS]

58

III,2,1863

Pandarus. Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber with a
bed; which bed, because it shall not speak of your
pretty encounters, press it to death: away!
And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

59

III,3,1864

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,]
MENELAUS, and CALCHAS]

60

III,3,1904

Diomedes. This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden
Which I am proud to bear.

(stage directions). [Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS]

61

III,3,1905

(stage directions). [Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS]

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their tent]

62

III,3,1930

Agamemnon. The better.

(stage directions). [Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR]

63

III,3,1933

Menelaus. How do you? how do you?

(stage directions). [Exit]

64

III,3,1940

Ajax. Ay, and good next day too.

(stage directions). [Exit]

65

III,3,2096

Ulysses. Is that a wonder?
The providence that's in a watchful state
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,
Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.
There is a mystery—with whom relation
Durst never meddle—in the soul of state;
Which hath an operation more divine
Than breath or pen can give expressure to:
All the commerce that you have had with Troy
As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;
And better would it fit Achilles much
To throw down Hector than Polyxena:
But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
When fame shall in our islands sound her trump,
And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing,
'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,
But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'
Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak;
The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break.

(stage directions). [Exit]

66

III,3,2191

Achilles. My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;
And I myself see not the bottom of it.

(stage directions). [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]

67

III,3,2195

Thersites. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,
that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a
tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance.

(stage directions). [Exit]

68

IV,1,2196

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a]
torch; from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,
DIOMEDES, and others, with torches]

69

IV,1,2253

Aeneas. Good morrow, all.

(stage directions). [Exit with Servant]

70

IV,1,2284

Paris. 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.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

71

IV,2,2285

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA]

72

IV,2,2314

Cressida. A pestilence on him! now will he be mocking:
I shall have such a life!

(stage directions). [Enter PANDARUS]

73

IV,2,2336

Cressida. Come, you are deceived, I think of no such thing.
[Knocking within]
How earnestly they knock! Pray you, come in:
I would not for half Troy have you seen here.

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS and CRESSIDA]

74

IV,2,2339

Pandarus. Who's there? what's the matter? will you beat
down the door? How now! what's the matter?

(stage directions). [Enter AENEAS]

75

IV,2,2354

Aeneas. Who!—nay, then: come, come, you'll do him wrong
ere you're ware: you'll be so true to him, to be
false to him: do not you know of him, but yet go
fetch him hither; go.

(stage directions). [Re-enter TROILUS]

76

IV,2,2372

Aeneas. Good, good, my lord; the secrets of nature
Have not more gift in taciturnity.

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS and AENEAS]

77

IV,2,2376

Pandarus. Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil
take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a
plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!

(stage directions). [Re-enter CRESSIDA]

78

IV,2,2408

Cressida. Tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks,
Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart
With sounding Troilus. I will not go from Troy.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

79

IV,3,2409

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,]
and DIOMEDES]

80

IV,3,2421

Troilus. Walk into her house;
I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:
And to his hand when I deliver her,
Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus
A priest there offering to it his own heart.

(stage directions). [Exit]

81

IV,3,2425

Paris. I know what 'tis to love;
And would, as I shall pity, I could help!
Please you walk in, my lords.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

82

IV,4,2426

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA]

83

IV,4,2441

Cressida. O Troilus! Troilus!

(stage directions). [Embracing him]

84

IV,4,2485

Pandarus. Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or
my heart will be blown up by the root.

(stage directions). [Exit]

85

IV,4,2580

Troilus. Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,
This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.
Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,
To our own selves bend we our needful talk.

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES]

86

IV,4,2581

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES]

(stage directions). [Trumpet within]

87

IV,4,2592

Aeneas. Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity,
Let us address to tend on Hector's heels:
The glory of our Troy doth this day lie
On his fair worth and single chivalry.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

88

IV,5,2593

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS,]
MENELAUS, ULYSSES, NESTOR, and others]

89

IV,5,2607

Ajax. Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek
Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:
Come, stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood;
Thou blow'st for Hector.

(stage directions). [Trumpet sounds]

90

IV,5,2614

Ulysses. 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;
He rises on the toe: that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES, with CRESSIDA]

91

IV,5,2658

Diomedes. Lady, a word: I'll bring you to your father.

(stage directions). [Exit with CRESSIDA]

92

IV,5,2670

Ulysses. Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,
That give accosting welcome ere it comes,
And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
To every ticklish reader! set them down
For sluttish spoils of opportunity
And daughters of the game.

(stage directions). [Trumpet within]

93

IV,5,2701

Achilles. A maiden battle, then? O, I perceive you.

(stage directions). [Re-enter DIOMEDES]

94

IV,5,2708

Agamemnon. Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,
Stand by our Ajax: as you and Lord AEneas
Consent upon the order of their fight,
So be it; either to the uttermost,
Or else a breath: the combatants being kin
Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.

(stage directions). [AJAX and HECTOR enter the lists]

95

IV,5,2728

Ulysses. The youngest son of Priam, a true knight,
Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm of word,
Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue;
Not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd:
His heart and hand both open and both free;
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,
Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath;
Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;
For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes
To tender objects, but he in heat of action
Is more vindicative than jealous love:
They call him Troilus, and on him erect
A second hope, as fairly built as Hector.
Thus says AEneas; one that knows the youth
Even to his inches, and with private soul
Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.

(stage directions). [Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight]

96

IV,5,2735

Diomedes. You must no more.

(stage directions). [Trumpets cease]

97

IV,5,2909

Agamemnon. First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
There in the full convive we: afterwards,
As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
Concur together, severally entreat him.
Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow,
That this great soldier may his welcome know.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all except TROILUS and ULYSSES]

98

IV,5,2928

Troilus. O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars
A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?
She was beloved, she loved; she is, and doth:
But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

99

V,1,2929

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]

100

V,1,2934

Patroclus. Here comes Thersites.

(stage directions). [Enter THERSITES]

101

V,1,2978

Achilles. My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite
From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.
Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
A token from her daughter, my fair love,
Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;
My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:
This night in banqueting must all be spent.
Away, Patroclus!

(stage directions). [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]

102

V,1,3007

Ulysses. Here comes himself to guide you.

(stage directions). [Re-enter ACHILLES]

103

V,1,3019

Agamemnon. Good night.

(stage directions). [Exeunt AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS]

104

V,1,3030

Hector. And so, good night.

(stage directions). [Exit DIOMEDES; ULYSSES and TROILUS following]

105

V,1,3032

Achilles. Come, come, enter my tent.

(stage directions). [Exeunt ACHILLES, HECTOR, AJAX, and NESTOR]

106

V,1,3044

Thersites. That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most
unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers
than I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend
his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound:
but when he performs, astronomers foretell it; it
is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun
borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his
word. I will rather leave to see Hector, than
not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan
drab, and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll
after. Nothing but lechery! all incontinent varlets!

(stage directions). [Exit]

107

V,2,3045

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES]

108

V,2,3053

Ulysses. Stand where the torch may not discover us.

(stage directions). [Enter CRESSIDA]

109

V,2,3057

Cressida. Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you.

(stage directions). [Whispers]

110

V,2,3120

Cressida. I'll fetch you one.

(stage directions). [Exit]

111

V,2,3125

Troilus. Fear me not, sweet lord;
I will not be myself, nor have cognition
Of what I feel: I am all patience.

(stage directions). [Re-enter CRESSIDA]

112

V,2,3182

Cressida. Good night: I prithee, come.
[Exit DIOMEDES]
Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee
But with my heart the other eye doth see.
Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err; O, then conclude
Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude.

(stage directions). [Exit]

113

V,2,3257

Ulysses. O, contain yourself
Your passion draws ears hither.

(stage directions). [Enter AENEAS]

114

V,2,3266

Troilus. Accept distracted thanks.

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS, AENEAS, and ULYSSES]

115

V,2,3274

Thersites. Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would
croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode.
Patroclus will give me any thing for the
intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not
do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing
else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!

(stage directions). [Exit]

116

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE]

117

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Hector. No more, I say.

(stage directions). [Enter CASSANDRA]

118

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Andromache. Cassandra, call my father to persuade.

(stage directions). [Exit CASSANDRA]

119

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Troilus. Who should withhold me?
Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars
Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;
Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,
Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears;
Not you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,
Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,
But by my ruin.

(stage directions). [Re-enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM]

120

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Hector. Andromache, I am offended with you:
Upon the love you bear me, get you in.

(stage directions). [Exit ANDROMACHE]

121

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Cassandra. Farewell: yet, soft! Hector! take my leave:
Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.

(stage directions). [Exit]

122

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Priam. Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!

(stage directions). [Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums]

123

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Troilus. They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,
I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.

(stage directions). [Enter PANDARUS]

124

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Troilus. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
The effect doth operate another way.
[Tearing the letter]
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.
My love with words and errors still she feeds;
But edifies another with her deeds.

(stage directions). [Exeunt severally]

125

V,4,3409

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Alarums: excursions. Enter THERSITES]

126

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Thersites. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go
look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,
has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's
sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see
them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that
loves the whore there, might send that Greekish
whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the
dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand.
O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty
swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry
cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is
not proved worthy a blackberry: they set me up, in
policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of
as bad a kind, Achilles: and now is the cur Ajax
prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm
to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim
barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.
Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other.

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following]

127

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Thersites. Hold thy whore, Grecian!—now for thy whore,
Trojan!—now the sleeve, now the sleeve!

(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting]

128

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(stage directions). [Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting]

(stage directions). [Enter HECTOR]

129

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Hector. I do believe thee: live.

(stage directions). [Exit]

130

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Thersites. God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a
plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's
become of the wenching rogues? I think they have
swallowed one another: I would laugh at that
miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.
I'll seek them.

(stage directions). [Exit]

131

V,5,3452

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant]

132

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Servant. I go, my lord.

(stage directions). [Exit]

133

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter AGAMEMNON]

134

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Agamemnon. Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Hath Doreus prisoner,
And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
Upon the pashed corses of the kings
Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,
Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,
Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary
Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,
To reinforcement, or we perish all.

(stage directions). [Enter NESTOR]

135

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Nestor. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;
And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
There is a thousand Hectors in the field:
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:
Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is call'd impossibility.

(stage directions). [Enter ULYSSES]

136

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Ulysses. O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles
Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,
Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,
Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day
Mad and fantastic execution,
Engaging and redeeming of himself
With such a careless force and forceless care
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,
Bade him win all.

(stage directions). [Enter AJAX]

137

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Ajax. Troilus! thou coward Troilus!

(stage directions). [Exit]

138

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Nestor. So, so, we draw together.

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES]

139

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Achilles. Where is this Hector?
Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

140

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AJAX]

141

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Ajax. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES]

142

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Ajax. Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office
Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus!

(stage directions). [Enter TROILUS]

143

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Troilus. Come, both you cogging Greeks; have at you both!

(stage directions). [Exeunt, fighting]

144

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(stage directions). [Exeunt, fighting]

(stage directions). [Enter HECTOR]

145

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Hector. Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES]

146

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Achilles. I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan:
Be happy that my arms are out of use:
My rest and negligence befriends thee now,
But thou anon shalt hear of me again;
Till when, go seek thy fortune.

(stage directions). [Exit]

147

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Hector. Fare thee well:
I would have been much more a fresher man,
Had I expected thee. How now, my brother!

(stage directions). [Re-enter TROILUS]

148

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Troilus. Ajax hath ta'en AEneas: shall it be?
No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
He shall not carry him: I'll be ta'en too,
Or bring him off: fate, hear me what I say!
I reck not though I end my life to-day.

(stage directions). [Exit]

149

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter one in sumptuous armour]

150

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Hector. Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark:
No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;
I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all,
But I'll be master of it: wilt thou not,
beast, abide?
Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

151

V,7,3556

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons]

152

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Thersites. The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,
bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-
henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the
game: ware horns, ho!

(stage directions). [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS]

153

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(stage directions). [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS]

(stage directions). [Enter MARGARELON]

154

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Thersites. I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard
begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard
in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will
not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?
Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the
son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:
farewell, bastard.

(stage directions). [Exit]

155

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Margarelon. The devil take thee, coward!

(stage directions). [Exit]

156

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter HECTOR]

157

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Hector. Most putrefied core, so fair without,
Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.
Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:
Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death.
[Puts off his helmet and hangs his shield]
behind him]

(stage directions). [Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons]

158

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Achilles. The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,
And, stickler-like, the armies separates.
My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed,
Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.
[Sheathes his sword]
Come, tie his body to my horse's tail;
Along the field I will the Trojan trail.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

159

V,9,3617

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES,]
and others, marching. Shouts within]

160

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Agamemnon. March patiently along: let one be sent
To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
If in his death the gods have us befriended,
Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.

(stage directions). [Exeunt, marching]

161

V,10,3631

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AENEAS and Trojans]

162

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Aeneas. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:
Never go home; here starve we out the night.

(stage directions). [Enter TROILUS]

163

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Troilus. Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame
Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!

(stage directions). [Exit]

164

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Pandarus. A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!
world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!
O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set
a-work, and how ill requited! why should our
endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?
what verse for it? what instance for it? Let me see:
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
Good traders in the flesh, set this in your
painted cloths.
As many as be here of pander's hall,
Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;
Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.
Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,
Some two months hence my will shall here be made:
It should be now, but that my fear is this,
Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:
Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,
And at that time bequeathe you my diseases.

(stage directions). [Exit]