Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: W. L. Godshalk

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Troilus and Cressida (Modern)
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  1. Prologue
  2. 1.1
  3. 1.2
  4. 1.3
  5. 2.1
  6. 2.2
  7. 2.3
  8. 3.1
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  10. 3.3
  11. 4.1
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Troilus and Cressida (Folio 1, 1623)
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  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 2.1
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  7. 3.1
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  10. 4.1
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Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)
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- Scene
  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2
  6. 2.3
  7. 3.1
  8. 3.2
  9. 3.3
  10. 4.1
  11. 4.2
  12. 4.3
  13. 4.4
  14. 4.5
  15. 5.1
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  17. 5.3
  18. 5.4
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The history
¶looke, nere looke, the Eagles are gonne, crowes and dawes,
¶crowes and dawes, I had rather bee such a man as Troylus,
¶then Agamemnon and all Greece.
¶Cres. There is amongst the Greekes Achilles a better
405man then Troylus.
¶Pan. Achilles, a dray-man, a porter, a very Cammell.
¶Cres. Well, well:
¶Pan. Well, well, why haue you any discretion, haue you
¶any eyes, doe you know what a man is? is not birth, beauty,
410good shape, discourse, man-hood, learning, gentlenesse, ver-
¶tue youth, liberallity and such like, the spice & salt that sea-
¶son a man.
¶Cres. I a minst man, and then to bee bak't with no date in
¶the pie, for then the mans date is out:
415Pan. You are such a woman a man knowes not at what
¶ward you lie:
¶Cres: Vpon my backe to defend my bellie, vpon my wit
¶to defend my wiles, vpon my secrecy to defend mine hones-
¶ty, my maske to defend my beauty, and you to defend all
420these: and at al these wards I lie, at a thousand watches.
¶Pan. Say one of your watches.
¶Cres. Nay Ile watch you for that; and thats one of the
¶chiefest of them two: If I cannot ward what I would not
425haue hit: I can watch you for telling how I tooke the blowe
¶vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then its past watching:
¶Pan: You are such another:Enter Boy:
430Boy: Sir my Lord would instantlie speake with you.
¶Pan: Where?
¶Boy: At your owne house there he vnarmes him:
¶Pan. Good boy tell him I come, I doubt he be hurt, fare ye
¶well good Neice:
 _Cres: Adiew vncle:
¶Pan: I wilbe with you Neice by and by:
¶Cres: To bring vncle: _Pan: I a token from Troylus:
¶Cres: By the same token you are a Bawde,
440Words, vowes, guifts, teares and loues full sacrifize:
¶He offers in anothers enterprize,
¶But more in Troylus thousand fould I see,
¶Then in the glasse of Pandars praise may bee:
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