Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)
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The history
¶You told how Dyomed a whole weeke by daies,
¶Did haunt you in the field.
¶During all question of the gentle truce:
2185But when I meete you arm'd, as black defiance,
¶As heart can thinke or courage execute.
¶Diom. The one and other Diomed embraces,
¶Our blouds are now in calme, and so long helth:
¶Lul'd when contention, and occasion meete,
2190By Ioue ile play the hunter for thy life,
¶With all my force, pursuite, and pollicy.
¶Welcome to Troy, now by Anchises life,
2195Welcome indeed: by Uenus hand I swere:
¶The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently.
¶(If to my sword his fate be not the glory)
¶But in mine emulous honor let him die:
¶With euery ioynt a wound and that to morrow------
¶Æne. We know each other well?
¶Lord so earely?
2210To Calcho's house, and there to render him:
¶Lets haue your company, or if you please,
¶(Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge)
2215My brother Troylus lodges there to night,
¶Rouse him and giue him note of our approch,
¶With the whole quality wherefore:
I feare
