bones that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to think on 't. What says she there? Tro. Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; The effect doth operate another way. 109 [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. [Exeunt severally. SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp. Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan, I go, my lord. [Exit. Enter AGAMEMNON. Agam. Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam, Enter NESTOR. Alarums: excursions. Enter THERsites. Ther. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look on. That dissembling abominable varlet, 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-Now here he fights on Galathe his horse, masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand. O'the 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 worth a blackberry: they set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur, Ájax, against that deg 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. Nest. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles; Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following. 20 Ther. Hold thy whore, Grecian!-now for thy whore, Trojan!-now the sleeve, now the sleeve ! [Exeunt Troilus and Diomedes, fighting. Enter HECTOR. Hell. What art thou, Greek? art thou for Art thou of blood and honour? Ther. No, no, I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave: a very filthy rogue. Hell. I do believe thee: live. 31 [Exit. Ther. God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe SCENE V. Another part of the plains. Dio. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid: ΙΟ 20 And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot, Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance: Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend With such a careless force and forceless care Enter AJAX. 40 Dio. I would correct him. Ajax. Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus! Enter TROILUS. Tro. O traitor Diomed! turn thy false face, am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard thou traitor, And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse! Ajax. I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed. Enter HECTOR. Heel. Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother! Enter ACHIlles. Ther. I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I 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 judgement: farewell, bastard. [Exit. Mar. The devil take thee, coward! [Exit. SCENE VIII. Another part of the plains. Enter HECtor. Hect. Most putrefied core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. Achil. Now do I see thee, ha! have at thee, Now is my day's work done; I'll take good Hector! SCENE VII. Another part of the plains. Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons. Achil. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel: Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath: And when I have the bloody Hector found, Ther. 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! [Exeunt Paris and Menelaus. breath: How ugly night comes breathing at his heels: Achil. Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek. [Hector falis. 10 So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down! Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone. On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain, 'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.' [A retreat sounded. Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part. Myr. The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord. Achil. 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. 20 SCENE IX. Another part of the plains. Agam. Hark! hark! what shout is that? [Within] Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles ! Dio. The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles. Ajax. If it be so, yet bragless let it be; Great Hector was a man as good as he. Agam. March patiently along: let one be sent To pray Achilles see us at our tent. Hector! the gods forbid! Tro. He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail, In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field. Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed! Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy! I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy, And linger not our sure destructions on! 9 Ane. My lord, you do discomfort all the host. Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd, 20 I'll through and through you! and, thou greatsized coward, No space of earth shall sunder our two hates: [Exeunt Æneas and Trojans. AS TROILUS is going out, enter, from the other side, PANDARUS. Pan. But hear you, hear you! Tro. Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name![Exit. Pan. 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: 41 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; It should be now, but that my fear is this, [Exit. SCENE I. Rome. A street. Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons. First Cit. Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. Two Volscian Guards. VOLUMNIA, mother to Coriolanus. Gentlewoman, attending on Virgilia. Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ediles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants. SCENE: Rome and the neighbourhood; Corisli and the neighbourhood; Antium. partly proud; which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue. 41 Sec. Cit. What he cannot help in his nature. you account a vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous. First Cit. If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. [Shouts within.] What shouts are these? The other side o' the city is risen: You are all resolved rather to die why stay we prating here? to the Capitol! All. Come, come. All Speak, speak. than to famish? All. Resolved, resolved. First Cit. First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people. All. We know't, we know't. II First Cit. Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. Is't a verdict? All. No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away! Sec. Cit. One word, good citizens. First Cit. We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good. What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. Sec. Cit. Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius? All. Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty. 29 Sec. Cit. Consider you what services he has done for his country? First Cit. Very well; and could be content to give him good report for't, but that he pays himself with being proud. Sec. Cit. Nay, but speak not maliciously. First Cit. I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother, and to be First Cit. Soft! who comes here? Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA. 50 Sec. Cit. Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved the people. First Cit. He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so ! Men. What work's, my countrymen, in hand! where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you. First Cit. Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we have strong arms too. Men. Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours, Will you undo yourselves? First Cit. We cannot, sir, we are undone already. Men. I tell you, friends, most charitable care Have the patricians of you. For your wants, Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well 69 Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them Against the Roman state, whose cours will on The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs Of more strong link asunder than can e ver Appear in your impediment. For the deth, The gods, not the patricians, make it, and Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Jack You are transported by calamity Thither where more attends you, and you lander Men. Either you must Confess yourselves wondrous malicious, First Cit. Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please you, deliver. Men. There was a time when all the body's members Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it: 100 I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive, Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel, First Cit. Well, sir, what answer made the belly? Men. Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus For, look you, I may make the belly smile Your belly's answer? What! In this our fabric, if that they What then? 120 Men. 'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then? First Cit. Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd, Who is the sink o' the body,- Well, what then? True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he, First Cit. Ay, sir; well, well. man, 140 'Though all at once cannot See what I do deliver out to each, Yet I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, And leave me but the bran.' What say you to 't? First Cit. It was an answer: how apply you this? 151 Men. The senators of Rome are this good belly, And you the mutinous members; for examine Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find No public benefit which you receive But it proceeds or comes from them to you And no way from yourselves. What do you think, You, the great toe of this assembly? First Cit. I the great toe! why the great toe? Men. For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest, 161 Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost: Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run, Lead'st first to win some vantage. But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs: Rome and her rats are at the point of battle; The one side must have bale. you, Where he should find you lions, finds you hares; Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is | And curse that justice did it. Who deserves greatness 180 Deserves your hate: and your affections are |