Helen. My Lord Pandarus; honey-sweet lord, Pan. Go to, sweet queen, go to: commends himself most affectionately to you.

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Helen. You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do, our melancholy upon your head! Pan. Sweet queen, sweet queen! that's a sweet queen, i' faith.

Helen. And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.

Pan. Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall it not, in truth, la! Nay, I care not for such words; no, no. And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king call for him at supper, you will make his excuse.

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Pan. He no, she'll none of him; they two are twain.

Helen. Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.

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Pan. Come, come, I'll hear no more of this. I'll sing you a song now.

Helen. Ay, ay, prithee now. sweet lord, thou hast a fine forehead. Pan. Ay, you may, you may.

Helen. Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all. O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid! Pan. Love! ay, that it shall, i' faith. Par. Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.

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Sings.

Par. I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida. Pan. No, no, no such matter; you are wide. Come, your disposer is sick.

Par. Well, I'll make excuse.

By my troth,

Pan. In good troth, it begins so.

Love, love, nothing but love, still more!

For, O love's bow
Shoots buck and doe:
The shaft confounds,
Not that it wounds,
But tickles still the sore.

These lovers cry O! O! they die!

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Yet that which seems the wound to kill,
Doth turn 0! O! to ha! ha! he!
So dying love lives still :
O! O! a while, but ha! ha! ha!
O! O! groans out for ha ha! ha!
Heigh-ho!

Helen. In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the

nose.

Par. He eats nothing but doves, love; and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.

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Pan. Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's a-field to-day?

Par. Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day, but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my brother Troilus went not? Helen. He hangs the lip at something you know all, Lord Pandarus.

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Pan. Not I, honey-sweet queen.

I long to hear how they sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?

Cres. Hard to seem won; but I was won, my Yet, after all comparisons of truth, lord,

As truth's authentic author to be cited,

As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse 190
And sanctify the numbers.

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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 lov'd 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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Tro. And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.

Pan. Pretty, i' faith.

Cres. My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;
'Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss:
I am asham'd: O heavens! what have I done?
For this time will I take my leave, my lord.

Tro. Your leave, sweet Cressid!

Pan. Leave an you take leave till to-morrow morning.

Cres. Pray you, content you.
Tro.
What offends you, lady?
Cres. Sir, mine own company.
Tro. You cannot shun yourself.
Cres. Let me go and try.

I have a kind of self resides with you;
But an unkind self, that itself will leave,
To be another's fool. Where is my wit?
I would be gone.
I speak I know not what.
Tro. Well know they what they speak that
speak so wisely.
Cres. Perchance, my lord, I show more craft
than love,

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And fell so roundly to a large confession,
To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods
above.

Tro. O! that I thought it could be in a woman,
As if it can I will presume in you,
To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love;
To keep her constancy in plight and youth,
Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind
That doth renew swifter than blood decays:
Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,
That my integrity and truth to you
Might be affronted with the match and weight
Of such a winnow'd purity in love;
How were I then uplifted! but, alas!
I am as true as truth's simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Cres. In that I'll war with you.
Tro.
O virtuous fight!
When right with right wars who shall be most
right.
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True swains in love shall in the world to come
Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rimes,
Full of protest, of oath, and big compare,
Want similes, truth tir'd with iteration,
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,

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Cres.
Prophet may you be !
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,
When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing, yet let memory,

From false to false, among false maids in love,
Upbraid my falsehood! when they 've said 'as
false

As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,
As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'
Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
As false as Cressid.'

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Pan. 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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Tro. Amen.
Cres. Amen.

Pan. 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! 201
Exeunt.

SCENE III.-The Grecian Camp.

Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NES-
TOR, AJAX, MENELAUS, and CALCHAS.

Cal. Now, princes, for the service I have done
you,

The advantage of the time prompts me alond
To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind
That through the sight I bear in things to come,
I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,
Incurr'd a traitor's name; expos'd myself,
From certain and possess'd conveniences,
To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all
That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition
Made tame and most familiar to my nature;
And here, to do you service, am become
As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:
I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
To give me now a little benefit,
Out of those many register'd in promise,
Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.
Agam. What would'st thou of us, Trojan!
make demand.

Cal. You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Oft have you, often have you thanks therefore.
Desir'd my Cressid in right great exchange, a
Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor
I know is such a wrest in their affairs.
That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,

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In change of him: let him be sent, great princes, Hath any honour, but honour for those honours And he shall buy my daughter; and her That are without him, as place, riches, and presence

favour, Shall quite strike off all service I have done, Prizes of accident as oft as merit: In most accepted pain.

Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, Agam,

Let Diomedes bear him, The love that lean’d on them as slippery too, And bring us Cressid hither : Calchas shall have Doth one pluck down another, and together What he requests of us. Good Diomed, 32 Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me : Furnish you fairly for this interchange : Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow At ample point all that I did possess, Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready. Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find

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

Something not worth in me such rich beholding Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS. As they have often given. Here is Ulysses: Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before

I'll interrupt his reading.

How now, Ulysses ! their Tent.

Ulyss.

Now, great Thetis' son! Ulyss. Achilles stands i’ the entrance of his Achil. What are you reading ? tent:

Ulyss.

A strange fellow here Please it our general to pass strangely by him, Writes me : As if he were forgot ; and, princes all, Lay negligent and loose regard upon him :

That man, how dearly ever parted,

How much in having, or without, or in,
I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me
Why such unplausive eyes are bent on bim:

Cannot make boast to have that which he hath, If so, I have derision medicinable

Nor feels not what he owes but by reflection ;

A8 when his virtues shining upon others
To use between your strangeness and his pride,
Which his own will shall have desire to drink.

Heat them, and they retort that heat again

To the first giver.
It may do good : pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees

Achil.

This is not strange, Ulysses. Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. The beauty that is borne here in the face

Agam. We'll execute your purpose, and put on The bearer knows not, but commends itself A form of strangeness as we pass along : To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself, So do each lord, and either greet him not, That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself, Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more Not going from itself; but eye to eye oppos’d Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way. Salutes each other with each other's form; Achil. What! comes the general to speak For speculation turns not to itself with me?

Till it hath travell'd, and is married there You know my mind ; I'll fight no more 'gainst Where it may see itself. This is not strange Troy.

at all. Agam. What says Achilles ? would he aught Ulyss. I do not strain at the position, with us?

It is familiar, but at the author's drift; Nest. Would you, my lord, aught with the Who in his circumstance expressly proves general ?

That no man is the lord of any thing, Achil. No.

Though in and of hiun there be much consisting, Nest. Nothing, my lord.

Till he communicate his parts to others : Agam. The better.

Nor doth he of himself know them for aught Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR. Till he behold them form'd in the applause Achil. Good day, good day.

Where they 're extended; who, like an arch,

1 Men. How do you ? how do you? Exit.

reverberates Achil. What does the cuckold scorn me? The voice again, or, like a gate of steel Ajar. How now, Patroclus !

Fronting the sun, receives and renders back Achil. Good morrow, Ajax.

His figureand his heat. I was much wraptinthis; Ajax. Ha?

And apprehended here immediately Achil. Good morrow.

The unknown Ajax. Ajar. Ay, and good next day too. Exit. Heavens, what a man is therel a very horse ; Achil. What mean these fellows? Know they That has he knows not what. Nature, what not Achilles ?

things there are, Patr. They pass by strangely; they were Most abject in regard, and dear in use! us'd to bend,

What things, again most dear in the esteem, To send their smiles before them to Achilles ; And poor in worth! Now shall we see toTo come as humbly as they usd to creep

morrow, To holy altars.

An act that very chance doth throw upon him, Achil. What! am I poor of late? Ajax renown'd. O heavens! what some men do, 'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with While some men leave to do. fortune,

How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall, Mast fall out with men too : what the declin'd is Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes ! He shall as soon read in the eyes of others How one man eats into another's pride, As fcel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, while pride is fasting in his wantonness ! Show not their mealy wings but to the summer, To see these Grecian lords ! why, even already And not a man, for being simply man, 80 | They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder

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As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast, 140 Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,
And great Troy shrinking:

Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,
Achil. I do believe it ; for they pass’d by me Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the
As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me gods,
Good word norlook: what ! are my deeds forgot! Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.

Ulyss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, There is a mystery, with whom relation Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,

Durst never meddle, in the soul of state, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes :

Which hath an operation more divine Those scraps are good deeds past; which are Than breath or pen can give expressure to. devour'd

All the commerce that you have had with As fast as they are made, forgot as soon

Troy
As done: perseverance, dear my lord, 150 As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord ;
Keeps honour bright : to have done is to hang And better would it fit Achilles much
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail

To throw down Hector than Polyxena ; In monumental mockery. Take the instant But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at way ;

home, For honour travels in a strait so narrow

When fame shall in our islands sound her Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path; trump, For emulation hath a thousand sons

And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing, That one by one pursue : if you give way, • Great Hector's sister did Achilles win, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.' Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by

Farewell, my lord : I as your lover speak; And leave you hindmost;

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o'er the ice that you should Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,

break.

Erit. Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,

Patr. To this effect, Achilles, have I mov'd O'errun and trampled on: then what they do in you. present,

A woman impudent and mannish grown Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop is not more loath'd than an effeminate man yours ;

In time of action. I stand condemnd for For time is like a fashionable host,

this : That slightly shakes his parting guest by the They think my little stomach to the war hand,

And your great love to me restrains you thus. And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,

Cupid And farewell goes out sighing. O! let not virtue Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, seek

And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Remuneration for the thing it was ;

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Achil.

Shall Ajax fight with Hector ! High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Patr. Ay; and perhaps receive much honour Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all

by him. To envious and calumniating time.

Achil

. I see my reputation is at stake; One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, My fame is shrewdly gor'd. That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Patr.

O! then beware ; Though they are made and moulded of things Those wounds heal ill that men do give them. past,

selves : And give to dust that is a little gilt

Omission to do what is necessary More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.

Seals a commission to a blank of danger; The present eye praises the present object: 180 And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Then marvel not, thou great and complete man, Even then when we sit idly in the sun. That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax ; Achil. Go call Thersites hither, sweet PaSince things in motion sooner catch the eye

troclus : Than what not stirs. The cry went once on I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him thee,

To invite the Trojan lords after the combat And still it might, and yet it may again, To see us here unarm’d. I have a woman's If thou wonld'st not entomb thyself alive,

longing, And case thy reputation in thy tent ;

An appetite that I am sick withal, Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of To see great Hector in his weeds of peace; late,

To talk with him and to behold his visage, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods them. Even to my full of view. A labour sav'd !

selves, And drave great Mars faction.

Enter THERSITES. Achil.

Of this my privacy 190 Ther. A wonder! I have strong reasons.

Achil. What? Uly88.

But 'gainst your privacy Ther. Ajax goes up and down the field, asking The reasons are more potent and heroical. for himself. "Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love

Achil. How so? With one of Priam's daughters.

Ther. He must fight singly to.morrow with Achil. Ha ! known !

Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an Ulyss. Is that a wonder ?

heroical cudgelling that he raves in saying The providence that's in a watchful state nothing