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  • Title: Troilus and Cressida (Modern)
  • Editor: William Godshalk

    • ISBN: 1-55058-301-8

    Copyright Internet Shakespeare Editions. This text may be freely used for educational, non-proift purposes; for all other uses contact the Coordinating Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: William Godshalk
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    Troilus and Cressida (Modern)

    3424.1[5.6]
    3425Enter Ajax.
    Ajax
    Troilus, thou coward Troilus. Show thy head.
    Enter Diomed.
    Diomed
    Troilus, I say. Where's Troilus?
    Ajax
    What wouldst thou?
    3430Diomed
    I would correct him.
    Ajax
    Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office
    Ere that correction. -- Troilus, I say. What, Troilus?
    Enter Troilus.
    3435Troilus
    O traitor Diomed. Turn thy false face, thou traitor,
    And pay thy life thou ow'st me for my horse.
    Diomed
    Ha? Art thou there?
    Ajax
    I'll fight with him alone. Stand, Diomed.
    3440Diomed
    He is my prize; I will not look upon.
    Troilus
    Come, both you cogging Greeks. Have at you both.
    Exit Troilus [with Ajax and Diomed, fighting].
    Enter Hector.
    Hector
    Yea, Troilus. Oh, well fought, my youngest brother.
    3445Enter Achilles.
    Achilles
    Now do I see thee. Have at thee, Hector.
    [They fight; Achilles drops his sword?]
    Hector
    Pause, if thou wilt.
    Achilles
    I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan.
    Be happy that my arms are out of use.
    3450My rest and negligence befriends thee now,
    But thou anon shalt hear of me again.
    Till when, go seek thy fortune.
    Exit [Achilles].
    Hector
    Fare thee well.
    I would have been much more a fresher man,
    3455Had I expected thee. --
    Enter Troilus.
    How now, my brother?
    Troilus
    Ajax hath ta'en Aeneas; shall it be?
    No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
    He shall not carry him. I'll be ta'en too,
    3460Or bring him off. Fate, hear me what I say:
    I reck not, though thou end my life today.
    Exit [Troilus].
    Enter one [Greek] in armor.
    Hector
    Stand, stand, thou Greek. Thou art a goodly mark.
    3465No? Wilt thou not? I like thy armor well;
    I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all,
    But I'll be master of it. Wilt thou not, beast, abide?
    [Exit Greek in armor.]
    Why then, fly on; I'll hunt thee for thy hide.
    Exeunt [Hector and the Greek in armor.]
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