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Troilus and Cressida (Folio 1, 1623)
3332Enter Thersites in excursion.
3333Ther. Now they are clapper-clawing one another, Ile
3336knaues Sleeue of Troy, there in his Helme: I would faine
3344me vp in pollicy, that mungrill curre Aiax, against that
3345dogge of as bad a kinde, Achilles. And now is the curre
3346Aiax prouder then the curre Achilles, and will not arme
3347to day. Whereupon, the Grecians began to proclaime
3348barbarisme; and pollicie growes into an ill opinion.
3349Enter Diomed and Troylus.
3350Soft, here comes Sleeue, and th'other.
3352I would swim after.
3354I doe not flye; but aduantagious care
3355Withdrew me from the oddes of multitude:
3356Haue at thee?
3357Ther. Hold thy whore Grecian: now for thy whore
3358Troian: Now the Sleeue, now the Sleeue.
3359Euter Hector.
3361Art thou of bloud, and honour?
3363a very filthy roague.
3364Hect. I doe beleeue thee, liue.
3365Ther. God a mercy, that thou wilt beleeue me; but a
3366plague breake thy necke---for frighting me: what's be-
3367come of the wenching rogues? I thinke they haue
3370Exit.