Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)
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of Troylus and Cresseida.
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Enter Hector.
3360Hect. What art Greeke, art thou for Hectors match.
¶Art thou of bloud and honour.
¶filthy roague.
¶Hect. I do beleeue thee, liue.
3365Ther. God a mercy, that thou wilt beleeue me, but a plague
¶breake thy neck --- for frighting me: whats become of the
¶wenching roagues? I thinke they haue swallowed one ano-
¶ther. I would laugh at that miracle----yet in a sort lechery
Exit.
¶
Enter Diomed and Seruant.
¶Fellow commend my seruice to her beauty:
¶And am her knight by proofe.
Enter Agamem.
¶Man. I goe my Lord:
¶Aga. Renew, renew, the fierce Polidamas,
¶Hath beate downe Menon: bastard Margarelon,
3380Hath Doreus prisoner.
¶Amphimacus and Thous deadly hurt,
3385Patroclus tane or slaine, and Palamedes
¶Sore hurt and bruised, the dreadfull Sagittary,
¶Appalls our numbers, hast we Diomed,
¶To re-enforcement or we perish all.
¶
Enter Nestor.
3390Nest: Go beare Patroclus body to Achilles,
¶There is a thousand Hectors in the field:
¶Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
¶And there lacks worke, anon he's there a foote
¶Before the belching Whale, then is he yonder:
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