0.4As it was a
cted by the Kings Maie
sties
0.5seruants at the Globe.
0.6Written by William Shake
speare,
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0.9are to be
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0.10Church-yeard, ouer against the
0.15Troylus
and Cresseid.
0.16Excellently expressing the beginning 0.17of their loues, with the conceited wooing
0.18of
Pandarus Prince of
Licia.
0.19Written by William Shake
speare.
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G. Eld for
R. Bonian and
H. Walley, and
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Ternall reader, you haue heere a new 0.294play, neuer stal'd with the Stage, 0.305neuer clapper-clawd with the palmes 0.316of the vulger, and yet passing full of 0.327the palme comicall; for it is a birth of 0.338your braine, that neuer vnder-tooke 0.349any thing commicall, vainely: And 0.3510were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the 0.3611titles of Commodities, or of Playes for Pleas; you should 0.3712see all those grand censors, that now stile them such 0.3813vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their 0.3914grauities:
especially this authors Commedies, that are 0.4015so fram'd to the life, that they serue for the most com- 0.4116monCommentaries, of all the actions of our liues, shew- 0.4217ingsuch a dexteritie, and power of witte, that the most 0.4318displeased with Playes, are pleasd with his Commedies. 0.4419And all such dull and heauy-witted worldlings, as were 0.4520neuer capable of the witte of a Commedie, comming by 0.4621report of them to his representations, haue found that 0.4722witte there, that they neuer found in them-selues, and 0.4823haue parted better wittied then they came: feeling an 0.4924edge of witte set vpon them, more then euer they 0.5025dreamd they had braine to grinde it on. So much and 0.5126such sauored salt of witte is in his Commedies, that they 0.5227seeme (for their height of pleasure) to be borne in that 0.5328sea that brought forth Venus.
Amongst all there is 0.5429none more witty then this: And had I time I would 0.5530comment vpon it, though I know it needs not, (for so ¶2
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0.5631much as will make you thinke your testerne well be- 0.5732stowd)
but for so much worth, as euen poore I know to be 0.5833stuft in it. It deserues such a labour, as well as the best 0.5934Commedy in Terence
or Plautus.
And beleeue this, 0.6035that when hee is gone, and his Commedies out of sale, 0.6136you will scramble for them, and set vp a new English 0.6237Inquisition. Take this for a warning, and at the perrill 0.6338of your pleasures losse, and Iudgements, refuse not, nor 0.6439like this the lesse, for not being sullied, with the smoaky 0.6540breath of the multitude;
but thanke fortune for the 0.6641scape it hath made amongst you. Since by the grand 0.6742possessors wills I beleeue you should haue prayd for them 0.6843rather then beene prayd. And so I leaue all such to bee 0.6944prayd for (for the states of their wits healths) 0.7045that will not praise it. The history of Troylus
and Cresseida.
3447Enter Pandarus and Troylus. 3548Troy.CAll heere my varlet, Ile vnarme againe,
3749Why
should I warre without the walls of Troy:
3850That
finde
such cruell battell here within,
3951Each Troyan that is mai
ster of his heart,
4052Let him to
field
Troylus alas hath none.
4153Pan. Will this geere nere be mended?
4254Troy. The Greeks are
strong and skilfull to their
strength
4355Fierce to their skill, and to their
fiercene
sse valiant,
4456But I am weaker then a womans teare;
4557Tamer then
sleepe; fonder then ignorance,
4658Le
sse valiant then the Virgin in the night,
4759And skille
sse as vnpra
ctiz'd infancy:
4860Pan. Well, I haue told you enough of this; for my part ile
4961not meddle nor make no farther; hee that will haue a cake
5062out of the wheate mu
st tarry the grynding.
5263Tro. Haue I not tarried
? 5364Pan. I the grinding; but you mu
st tarry the boulting.
5465Troy. Haue I not tarried?
5566Paude. I the boulting; but you mu
st tarry the leauening.
5667Troy. Still haue I tarried.
5768Pan. I, to the leauening, but heares yet in the word here
- 5869after, the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating the
5970ouen, and the baking, nay you mu
st stay the cooling too, or
6071yea may chance burne your lippes.
6172Troy. Pacience her
selfe, what Gode
sse ere
she be,
6273Doth le
sser blench at
su
ffrance then I do:
6374At
Priams royall table do I
sit
6475And when faire
Cressid comes into my thoughts,
6576So traitor then
she comes when
she is thence.
6677Pand. Well
shee lookt ye
sternight fairer then euer I
saw her
6778looke, or any woman els.
6979Troy. I was about to tell thee when my heart,
A2 As
7080As wedged with a
sigh would riue in twaine,
7181Lea
st Hector or my father
should perceiue mee
: 7282I haue (as when the Sunne doth light a
scorne)
7383Buried this
sigh in wrincle of a
smyle,
7484But
sorrow that is coucht in
seeming gladne
sse,
7585Is like that mirth fate turnes to
suddaine
sadne
sse.
7686Pan: And her haire were not
some-what darker then
Hel- 7787lens, well go to, there were no more compari
son betweene
7888the women! but for my part
she is my kin
swoman, I would
7989not as they tearme it prai
se her, but I would
som-body had
8090heard her talke ye
ster-day as I did, I will not di
sprai
se your
8191sister C
assandraes wit, but-------
8292Troy. Oh P
andarus I tell thee P
andarus, 8393When I do tell thee there my hopes lie drown'd
8494Reply not in how many fadomes deepe,
8595They lie indrench'd, I tell thee I am madde:
8696In C
ressi}ds love? thou an
swer
st she is faire,
8797Powre
st in the open vlcer of my heart
: 8898Her eyes, her haire her cheeke, her gate, her voice,
8999Handle
st in thy di
scour
se: O that her hand
90100In who
se compari
son all whites are ynke
91101Writing their owne reproch; to who
se
soft
sei
sure,
92102The cignets downe is har
sh, and
spirit of
sence:
93103Hard as the palme of plow-man; this thou tel
st me,
94104As true thou tel
st me, when I
say I loue her,
95105But
saying thus in
steed of oyle and balme,
96106Thou lay
st in euery ga
sh that loue hath giuen mee
97107The knife that made it.
98108Pan: I
speake no more then truth.
99109Troy. Thou do
st not
speake
so much.
100110Pan: Faith Ile not meddle in it, let her bee as
shee is, if
she
101111bee faire tis the better for her, and
shee bee not,
she has the
102112mends in her owne hands.
103113Troy. Good P
andarus, how now P
andarus?
104114Pan: I haue had my labour for my trauell, ill thought on
105115of her, and ill thought of you, gon betweene and betweene,
106116but
small thanks for my labour.
107117Troy. What art thou angry P
andarus? what with me?
Pan.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
108118Pan. Because
shee's kin to me therefore
shee's not
so faire
109119as
Hellen, and
she were kin to me,
she would be as faire a Fri
- 110120day as
Hellen, is on Sunday, but what I? I care not and
shee
111121were a blackeamore, tis all one to mee.
112122Troy. Say I
she is not faire?
113123Pan. I do not care whether you do or no,
she's a foole to
114124stay behinde her father, let her to the Greekes, and
so Ile tell
116125her the next time I
see her for my part Ile meddle nor make
118127Troy. P
andarus.
Pan. Not I.
120129Pan. Pray you
speake no more to mee I will leaue all as I
121130found it and there an end.
Exit. 123132Troy. Peace you vngracious clamors, peace rude
sounds,
124133Fooles on both
sides,
Helleu must needes be faire,
125134When with your bloud you daylie paint her thus,
126135I cannot
fight vpon this argument:
127136It is too
staru'd a
subie
ct for my
sword,
128137But P
andarus: O gods! how do you plague me
129138I cannot come to
Cressid but by P
andar, 130139And he's as teachy to be wood to woe,
131140As
she is
stubborne, cha
st, again
st all
suite.
132141Tell me
Apollo for thy
Daphues loue
133142What
Cressid is, what P
andar, and what we:
134143Her bed is
India there
she lies, a pearle,
135144Betweene our Ilium, and where
shee reides
136145Let it be cald the wild and wandring
flood:
137146Our
selfe the Marchant, and this
sayling P
andar, 138147Our doubtfull hope, our conuoy and our barke.
140149AEne. How now prince T
roylus, wherefore not a
field.
142150Troy. Becau
se not there; this womans an
swer
sorts,
143151For womani
sh it is to be from thence.
144152What newes
AEneas from the
field to day
? 145153AEne. That P
aris is returned home and hurt.
147155AEne. T
roylus by
Menelaus.
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148156Troy. Let P
aris bleed tis but a
scar to
scorne,
149157Paris is gor'd with
Menelaus horne.
Alarum. 150158AEne. Harke what good
sport is out of towne to day.
151159Troy. Better at home, if would I might were may:
152160But to the
sport abrode are you bound thither?
153161AEne. In all
swift ha
st.
154162Troy. Come goe wee then togither.
Exeunt. 155163Enter Cressid and her man. 156164Cres. Who were tho
se went by
? 157165Man. Queene
Hecuba, and
Hellen.
158166Cres. And whether goe they?
159167Man. Vp to the Ea
sterne tower,
160168Who
se hight commands as
subie
ct all the vaile,
161169To
see the battell:
Hector who
se pacience,
162170Is as a vertue
fixt, to day was mou'd:
163171Hee chid
Andromache and
strooke his armorer,
164172And like as there were husbandry in warre
165173Before the Sunne ro
se, hee was harne
st lyte,
166174And to the
field goes he; where euery
flower
167175Did as a Prophet weepe what it fore
sawe,
168176In
Hectors wrath.
Cres. What was his cau
se of anger.
170177Man. The noi
se goes this, there is amonge the Greekes,
172178A Lord of Troian bloud, Nephew to
Hector, 173179They call him
Aiax. Cres.Good; and what of him.
175180Man. They
say hee is a very man
per se and
stands alone.
176181Cres. So do all men vnle
sse the are dronke,
sicke, or haue no
178183Man. This man Lady, hath rob'd many bea
sts of their par
- 179184ticular additions, hee is as valiant as the Lyon, churli
sh as
180185the Beare,
slowe as the Elephant: a man into whome nature
181186hath
so crowded humors, that his valour is cru
sht into folly,
182187his folly
sauced with di
scretion
: there is no man hath a ver
- 183188tue, that he hath not a glimp
se of, nor any
mā an attaint, but
184189he carries
some
staine of it. Hee is melancholy without cau
se
185190and merry again
st the haire, hee hath the ioynts of euery
186191thing, but euery thing
so out of ioynt, that hee is a gowtie
187192Briareus, many hands, & no v
se: or purblinde
Argus, al eyes,
Cres.
of Troylus and Cresseda.
189194Cres. But how
should this man that makes me
smile, make
191196Man They
say hee ye
sterday cop't
Hector in the battell
192197and
stroke him downe, the di
sdaine and
shame whereof
193198hath euer
since kept
Hector fa
sting and waking.
196200Man Maddam your vncle
Pandarus. 197201Cres. Hectors a gallant man.
198202Man As may be in the world Lady.
199203Pand. Whats that? whats that?
200204Cres. Good morrow vncle
Pandarus.
201205Pan. Good morrow cozen
Cressid: what doe you talke of?
202206good morrow
Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were
203207you at Illum
? Cres. This morning vncle.
205208Pan. What were you talking of when I came
? was
Hector 206209arm'd and gon ere yea came to Illium,
Hellen was not vp
207210was
she?
Cres. Hector was gone but
Hellen was not vp
? 209211Pan. E'ene
so,
Hector was
stirring early.
210212Cres. That were wee talking of, and of his anger.
211213Pan: Was he angry
? Cres: So he
saies here.
213214Pan: True hee was
so; I know the cau
se to, heele lay about
214215him to day I can tel them that, & ther's
Troylus wil not come
215216farre behind him, let them take heede of
Troylus; I can tell
216217them that too.
Cres. What is he angry too?
218218Pan: Who T
roylus? T
roylus is the better man of the two:
220219Cres: Oh
Iupiter ther's no compari
son.
221220Pan: What not betweene T
roylus and
Hector? do you know
223222Cres: I, if I euer
saw him before and knew him:
224223Pan: Well I
say T
roylus is T
roylus:
225224Cres. Then you
say as I
say, for I am
sure hee is not
Hector.
227225Pan. No nor
Hector is not T
roylus in
some degrees.
228226Cres. Tis iu
st, to each of them he is him
selfe.
229227Pan. Him
selfe, alas poore T
roylus I would he were.
231229Pan. Condition I had gone bare-foot to India.
233231Pan. Him
selfe
? no? hee's not him
selfe, would a were him
- selfe,
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234232selfe, well the Gods are aboue, time mu
st friend or end well
235233Troylus well, I would my heart were in her body; no,
Hector 236234is not a better man then
Troylus. 237235Cres. Excu
se me.
Pand. He is elder.
239236Cres. Pardon me, pardon me.
240237Pand. Th'others not eome too't, you
shall tell me another
241238tale when th'others come too't,
Hector shall not haue his
243240Cres. He
shall not neede it if he haue his owne.
244241Pand. Nor his qualities.
245242Cres. No matter.
Pand. Nor his beautie.
247243Cres. Twould not become him, his own's better.
248244Pan: You haue no iudgement neece;
Hellen her
selfe
249245swore th'other day that
Troylus for a browne fauour (
for so 250246tis I must confesse) not browne neither.
252248Pand. Faith to
say truth, browne and not browne.
253249Cres. To
say the truth, true and not true.
254250Pand. She prai
sd his complexion aboue
Paris, 255251Cres. Why
Paris hath colour inough.
Pand. So he has.
257252Cres. Then
Troylus should haue too much, if
shce praizd
258253him aboue, his complexion is higher then his, hee
259254hauing colour enough, and the other higher, is too
flaming
260255a prai
se for a good complexion, I had as lieue
Helens golden
261256tongue had commended
Troylus for a copper no
se.
262257Pand. I
sweare to you I thinke
Helen loues him better then(
Paris.
264258Cres. Then
shees a merry greeke indeed.
265259Pand. Nay I am
sure
she dooes,
she came to him th'other
266260day into the compa
st window, and you know hee has not
267261pa
st three or foure haires on his chinne.
268262Cres. Indeed a Tap
sters Arithmetique may
soone bring
269263his particulars therein to a totall.
270264Pand. Why he is very yong, and yet will hc within three
271265pound li
fte as much as his brother
Hector. 272266Cres. Is he
so yong a man, and
so old a lifter.
273267Pand. But to prooue to you that
Hellen loues him,
shee
274268eame and puts mee her white hand to his clouen chin.
275269Cres. Iuno haue mercy, how came it clouen?
Pand
of Troylus and Cresseida.
276270Pan. Why, you know tis dimpled,
277271I thinke his
smyling becomes him better then any man in
278272all Phrigia.
Cres. Oh he
smiles valianty.
281274Cres. Oh yes, and twere a clowd in
Autumne.
282275Pan. Why go to then, but to proue to you that
Hellen 284277Cres. T
roylus wil
stand to thee proofe if youle prooue it
so.
286278Pan. T
roylus, why hee e
steemes her no more then I e
- 288280Cres. If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an idle
289281head you would eate chickens ith
shell.
290282Pan. I cannot chu
se but laugh to thinke how
she ticled
291283his chin, indeed
shee has a maruel's white hand I mu
st needs
294286Pan. And
shee takes vpon her to
spie a white heare on
296288Cres. Alas poore chin many a wart is ritcher.
297289Pan. But there was
such laughing, Queene
Hecuba laught
300292Pan. And
Cassandra laught.
301293Cres. But there was a more temperate
fire vnder the por
302294of her eyes: did her eyes run ore to?
304296Cres. At what was all this laughing.
305297Pan. Marry at the white heare that
Hellen spied on T
roy- 307299Cres. And t'had beene a greene heare I
should haue
309301Pan. They laught not
so much at the heare as at his pret
- 311303Cres, What was his an
swere?
312304Pan. Quoth
shee heere's but two and
fifty heires on your
313305chinne; and one of them is white.
314306Cres. This is her que
stion.
315307Pan. Thats true, make no que
stion of that, two and
fiftie
B heires
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316308heires quoth hee, and one white, that white heire is my fa
- 317309ther, and all the re
st are his
sonnes.
Iupiter quoth
shee, which
318310of the
se heires is
Paris my hu
sband
? the forked one quoth
319311he, pluckt out and giue it him: but there was
such laughing,
320312and
Hellen so blu
sht, and
Paris so chaf't, and all the re
st so
322314Cres. So let it now for it has beene a great while going by.
324315Pan. Wel cozen I tould you a thing ye
sterday, think on't.
327317Pan. Ile be
sworne tis true, he will weepe you an'twere a
328318man borne in Aprill.
Sound a retreate. 329319Cres. And Ile
spring vp in his teares an'twere a nettle a
- 331321Pan. Harke they are comming from the
field,
shall we
332322stand vp here and
see them as they pa
sse toward Ilion, good
333323Neece do,
sweete Neece
Cresseida. 335325Pan. Heere, here, here's an excellent place, here wee may
336326see mo
st brauely, ile tell you them all by their names, as they
337327pa
sse by, but marke
Troylus aboue the re
st.
Enter AEneas. 339328Cres. Speake not
so lowde.
340329Pan. Thats
AEneas, is not that a braue man, hees one of
341330the
flowers of Troy I can tell you, but marke
Troylus, you
shal
342331see anon.
Cres. Who's that
? 345333Pan. Thats
Antenor, he has a
shrow'd wit I can tell you,
346334and hee's man good enough, hees one o'th
sounde
st iudge
- 347335ments in Troy who
soeuer, and a proper man of per
son, when
348336comes
Troylus, ile
shew you
Troylus anon, if hee
see me, you
349337shall
see him nod at mee.
350338Cres. Will he giue you the nod:
352340Crcs. If he do the ritch
shall haue more.
Enter Hector. 354341Pan. Thats
Hector, that, that, looke you that, thers a fel
- 355342low! goe thy way
Hector, ther's a braue man Neece, O braue
356343Hector, looke how hee lookes, theres a countenance, i
st not a
Pan:
of Troylus and Cresseida.
359346Pan: Is a not? it dooes a man heart good, looke you what
360347hacks are on his helmet, looke you yonder, do you
see, looke
361348you there, thers no ie
sting, thers laying on, takt o
ff, who will
362349as they
say, there be hacks.
363350Cres. Be tho
se with
swords.
365352Pan: Swords, any thing he cares not, and the diuell come to
366353him, its all one, by Gods lid it dooes ones heart good. Yon
- 367354der comes P
aris, yonder comes P
aris, looke yee yonder
368355Neece, i
st not a gallant man to, i
st not, why this is braue now,
369356who
said he came hurt home to day. Hee's not hurt, why this
370357will do
Hellens heart good now ha
? would I could
see
Troy- 371358lus now, you
shall
see
Troylus anon.
375361Pan. Thats
Helenus, I maruell where
Troylus is, thats
He- 376362lenus, I thinke he went not forth to day, thats
Helenus. 378363Cres: Can
Helenus fight vncle
? 379364Pan: Helenus no: yes heele
fight indi
fferent, well, I maruell
380365where
Troylus is; harke doe you not here the people crie
381366Troylus?
Helenus is a prie
st;
382367Cres: What
sneaking fellow comes yonder
? 384369Panda: Where? yonder? thats
Deiphobus. Tis T
roylus!
385370theres a man Neece, hem? braue T
roylus the Prince of
387372Cres. Peace for
shame peace.
388373Pan. Marke him, note him: O braue T
roylus, looke well
389374vpon him Neece, looke you how his
sword is bloudied, and
390375his helme more hackt then
Hectors, and how hee lookes, and
391376how hee goes? O admirable youth, hee neuer
saw three and
392377twenty, go thy way T
roylus, go thy way, had I a
sister were a
393378grace, or a daughter a Godde
sse, hee
should take his choiee,
394379O admirable man!
Paris? P
aris is durt to him, and I warrant
395380Hellen to change would giue an eye to boote.
399382Pa. A
sses, fooles, doults, cha
ff & bran, cha
ff & bran, porredge
400383after meate, I could liue and die in the eyes of T
roylus, nere
B2 looke
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401384looke, nere looke, the Eagles are gonne, crowes and dawes,
402385crowes and dawes, I had rather bee
such a man as T
roylus, 403386then
Agamemnon and all Greece.
404387Cres. There is among
st the Greekes
Achilles a better
406389Pan. Achilles, a dray-man, a porter, a very Cammell.
408391Pan. Well, well, why haue you any di
scretion, haue you
409392any eyes, doe you know what a man is
? is not birth, beauty,
410393good
shape, di
scour
se, man-hood, learning, gentlene
sse, ver
- 411394tue youth, liberallity and
such like, the
spice &
salt that
sea
- 413396Cres. I a min
st man, and then to bee bak't with no date in
414397the pie, for then the mans date is out
: 415398Pan. You are
such a woman a man knowes not at what
417400Cres: Vpon my backe to defend my bellie, vpon my wit
418401to defend my wiles, vpon my
secrecy to defend mine hone
s- 419402ty, my maske to defend my beauty, and you to defend all
420403the
se: and at al the
se wards I lie, at a thou
sand watches.
422404Pan. Say one of your watches.
423405Cres. Nay Ile watch you for that; and thats one of the
424406chiefe
st of them two: If I cannot ward what I would not
425407haue hit: I can watch you for telling how I tooke the blowe
426408vnle
sse it
swell pa
st hiding, and then its pa
st watching:
429409Pan: You are
such another
: Enter Boy: 430410Boy: Sir my Lord would in
stantlie
speake with you.
432412Boy: At your owne hou
se there he vnarmes him:
433413Pan. Good boy tell him I come, I doubt he be hurt, fare ye
434414well good Neice
: Cres: Adiew vncle
: 436415Pan: I wilbe with you Neice by and by:
437416Cres: To bring vncle:
Pan: I a token from T
roylus: 439417Cres: By the
same token you are a Bawde,
440418Words, vowes, guifts, teares and loues full
sacri
fize:
441419He o
ffers in anothers enterprize,
442420But more in
Troylus thou
sand fould I
see,
443421Then in the gla
sse of P
andars prai
se may bee:
Yet
of Troylus and Cresseida.
444422Yet hold l o
ff: women are angels woing,
445423,,Things woone are done, ioyes
soule lies in the dooing.
446424That
shee belou'd, knows naught that knows not this,
447425,,Men price the thing vngaind more then it is,
448426That
she was neuer yet that euer knew
449427Loue got
so
sweet, as when de
sire did
sue,
450428Therefore this
maxim out of loue I teach,
451429"
Atchiuement is command;
ungaind beseech, 452430Then though my hearts content
firme loue doth beare,
453431Nothing of that
shall from mine eyes appeare.
Exit. 454432Enter Agamemnon. Nestor, Vlisses, Diomedes, 456434Aga. Princes: what griefe hath
set the
se Iaundies ore your (cheekes?
458435The ample propo
sition that hope makes,
459436In all de
signes begun on earth below,
460437Failes in the promi
st largene
sse, checks and di
sa
sters,
461438Grow in the vaines of a
ctions highe
st reard.
462439As knots by the con
flux of meeting
sap,
463440Infe
cts the
sound Pine, and diuerts his graine,
464441Tortiue and errant from his cour
se of growth.
465442Nor Princes is it matter new to vs,
466443That we come
short of our
suppo
se
so farre,
467444That after
seauen yeares
siege, yet Troy walls
stand,
468445Sith euer a
ction that hath gone before,
469446Whereof we haue record, triall did draw,
470447Bias and thwart: not an
swering the ayme,
471448And that vnbodied
figure of the thought,
472449That gau't
surmi
sed
shape: why then you Princes,
473450Do you with cheekes aba
sht behold our workes,
474451And call them
shames which are indeed naught el
se,
475452But the protra
ctiue tryals of great
Ioue, 476453To
finde per
sistiue con
stancie in men.
477454The
finene
sse of which mettall is not found,
478455In fortunes loue: for then the bould and coward,
479456The wi
se and foole, the Arti
st and vnread,
480457The hard and
so
ft seeme all a
ffyn'd and kin,
481458But in the winde and tempe
st of her frowne,
482459Di
stin
ction with a broad and powerfull fan,
B3 Puffing
The history
483460Pu
ffing at all, winnowss the light away,
484461And what hath ma
sse or matter by it
selfe,
485462Lyes rich in vertue and vnmingled.
486463Nestor. With due ob
seruance of the godlike
seate,
487464Great
Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply
488465Thy late
st words. In the reproofe of chance,
490466Lies the true proofe of men: the
sea being
smooth,
491467How many
shallow bauble boates dare
saile,
492468Vpon her ancient bre
st, making their way
493469With tho
se of nobler bulke
? 494470But let the ru
ffian
Boreas once enrage
495471The gentle
Thetis, and anon, behold
496472The
strong ribbd barke through liquid mountaines cut,
497473Bounding betweene the two moy
st elements,
498474Like
Perseus hor
se. Where's then the
sawcie boate,
499475Who
se weake vntymberd
sides but euen now
500476Corriuald greatne
sse? either to harbor
fled,
501477Or made a to
ste for
Neptune: euen
so
502478Doth valours
shew, and valours worth deuide
503479In
stormes of fortune; for in her ray and brightne
sse
505480The heard hath more annoyance by the Bryze
506481Then by the Tyger, but when the
splitting winde,
507482Makes
flexible the knees of knotted Okes,
508483And Flies
fled vnder
shade, why then the thing of courage,
510484As rouzd with rage, with rage doth
simpathize,
511485And with an accent tun'd in
selfe
same key,
512486Retires to chiding fortune.
514488Thou great Commander, nerues and bone of Greece,
515489Heart of our numbers,
soule and onely
spright,
516490In whom the tempers and the minds of all
517491Should be
shut vp: heere what
Vlisses speakes,
518492Be
sides th'applau
se and approbation,
519493The which mo
st mighty (for thy place and
sway
520494And thou mo
st reuerend) for the
stretcht out life,
521495I giue to both your
speeches; which were
such
522496As
Agamemnon and the hand of Greece,
523497Should hold vp high in bra
sse, and
such againe
As
of Troylus and Cresseida.
524498As venerable
Nestor (hatcht in
siluer)
525499Should with a bond of ayre
strong as the Axel-tree,
526500(On which heauen rides) knit all the Greeki
sh eares
527501To his experienc't tongue, yet let it plea
se both
528502Thou great and wi
se, to heare
Vlisses speake.
534503Troy yet vpon his ba
ses had beene downe,
535504And the great
Hectors sword had lackt a ma
ster
536505But for the
se in
stances.
537506The
specialtie of rule hath beene negle
cted,
538507And looke how many Grecian tents do
stand,
539508Hollow vpon this plaine,
so many hollow fa
ctions,
540509When that the generall is not like the hiue,
541510To whom the forragers
shall all repaire,
542511What honey is expc
cted
? Degree being vi
sarded
543512Th'vnworthie
st shewes as fairly in the maske.
544513The heauens them-
selues, the plannets and this center
545514Ob
serue degree, prioritie and place,
546515In
sisture, cour
se, proportion,
sea
son, forme,
547516O
ffice and cu
stome, in all line of order.
548517And therefore is the glorious planet Sol,
549518In noble eminence enthron'd and
spherd,
550519Amid
st the other; who
se medcinable eye,
551520Corre
cts the in
fluence of euill Planets,
552521And po
sts like the Commandment of a King,
553522Sans check to good and bad. But when the Planets,
554523In euill mixture to di
sorder wander,
555524What plagues, and what portents, what mutinie
? 556525What raging of the
sea,
shaking of earth
? 557526Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors
558527Diuert and crack, rend and deracinate,
559528The vnitie and married calme of
states
560529Quite from their
fixure: O when degree is
shakt,
561530Which is the ladder of all high de
signes,
562531The enterpri
se is
sick. How could communities,
563532Degrees in
schooles, and brother-hoods in Citties,
564533Peacefull commerce from deuidable
shores,
565534The primogenitie and due of birth,
566535Prerogatiue of age, crownes,
scepters, lawrels,
But
The history
567536But by degree
stand in authentique place:
568537Take but degree away, vntune that
string,
569538And harke what di
scord followes, each thing melts
570539In meere oppugnancie: the bounded waters
571540Should lift their bo
somes higher then the
shores,
572541And make a
sop of all this
solid globe:
573542Strength
should be Lord of imbecilitie,
574543And the rude
sonne
should
strike his father dead.
575544Force
should be right or rather right and wrong,
576545(
Betweene whose endlesse iarre Iustice recides) 577546Should loo
se their names, and
so
should Iu
stice to?
578547Then euery thing include it
selfe in power,
579548Power into will, will into appetite,
580549And appetite an vniuer
sall Woolfe,
581550(So doubly
seconded with will and power)
582551Mu
st make perforce an vniuer
sall prey,
583552And la
st eate vp him
selfe.
585554This
chaos when degree is
su
ffocate,
587556And this negle
ction of degree it is,
588557That by a pace goes backward with a purpo
se
589558It hath to clime. The generalls di
sdaind,
590559By him one
step below, he by the next,
591560That next by him beneath,
so euery
step,
592561Exampl'd by the
fir
st pace that is
sick
593562Of his
superior, growes to an enuious feauer
594563Of pale and bloudle
sse emulation,
595564And 'tis this feauer that keepes Troy on foote,
596565Not her owne
sinnews. To end a tale of length,
597566Troy in our weakne
sse
stands not in her
strength.
598567Nestor. Mo
st wi
sely hath
Vlisses here di
scouerd,
599568The feuer whereof all our power is
sick.
600569Agamem. The nature of the
sickne
sse found,
Vlisses 602571Ulisses. The great
Achilles whom opinion crownes,
603572The
sinnow and the fore-hand of our ho
ste,
604573Hauing his eare full of his ayrie fame,
Growes
of Troylus and Cresseida.
605574Growes dainty of his worth, and in his Tent
606575Lies mocking our de
signes
: with him
Patroclus 607576Vpon a lazie bed the liue-long day,
609578And with ridiculous and
sillie a
ction,
610579Which (
slanderer
) he Imitation calls,
611580He pageants vs. Some-time great
Agamemnon, 612581Thy tople
sse deputation he puts on,
613582And like a
strutting Player, who
se conceit
614583Lyes in his ham-
string, and doth thinke it rich
615584To heere the woodden dialogue and
sound,
616585Twixt his
stretcht footing and the
scoa
ffollage,
617586Such to be pitied and ore-re
sted
seeming,
618587He a
cts thy greatne
sse in. And when he
speakes,
619588Tis like a chime a mending, with termes vn
square,
620589Which from the tongue of roaring
Tiphon dropt,
621590Would
seeme hiperboles, at this fu
stie
stu
ffe,
622591The large
Achilles on his pre
st bed lolling,
623592From his deepe che
st laughes out a lowd applau
se,
624593Cries excellent; 'tis
Agamemnon right,
625594Now play me
Nestor, hem and
stroake thy beard,
626595As he being dre
st to
some Oration,
627596That's done, as neere as the extreme
st ends
628597Of paralells, as like as
Uulcan and his wife
: 629598Yet god
Achilles still cries excellent,
630599Tis
Nestor right: now play him me
Patroclus, 631600Arming to an
swer in a night alarme,
632601And then for
sooth the faint defe
cts of age,
633602Mu
st be the
sc
aene of myrth, to co
ffe and
spit,
634603And with a pal
sie fumbling on his gorget,
635604Shake in and out the riuet, and at this
sport
636605Sir valour dyes, cryes O enough
Patroclus, 637606Or giue me ribbs of
steele, I
shall
split all
638607In plea
sure of my
spleene, and in this fa
shion,
639608All our abilities, guifts, natures
shapes,
640609Seueralls and generalls of grace exa
ct,
641610Atchiuements, plots, orders, preuentions,
642611Excitements to the
field, or
speech for truce,
C Successe
The history
643612Succe
sse or lo
sse, what is, or is not,
serues
644613As
stu
ffe for the
se two to make paradoxes.
645614Nestor. And in the imitation of the
se twaine,
646615Who as
Vlisses sayes opinion crownes,
647616With an imperiall voyce: many are infe
ct,
648617Aiax is growne
selfe-wild, and beares his head
649618In
such a reyne, in full as proud a place
650619As broad
Achilles: keepes his Tent like him,
651620Makes fa
ctious fea
sts, railes on our
state of warre,
652621Bould as an Oracle, and
sets
Thersites 653622A
slaue, who
se gall coynes
slanders like a mint,
654623To match vs in compari
sons with durt,
655624To weaken our di
scredit, our expo
sure
656625How ranke
so euer rounded in with danger.
657626Vlisses. They taxe our pollicie, and call it cowardice,
658627Count wi
sdome as no member of the warre,
659628For
stall pre
science, and e
steeme no a
ct 660629But that of hand, the
still and mentall parts,
661630That do contriue how many hands
shall
strike,
662631When
fitne
sse calls them on, and know by mea
sure
663632Of their ob
seruant toyle the enemies waight,
664633Why this hath not a
fingers dignitie,
665634They call this bed-worke, mappry, Clo
set warre,
666635So that the Ram that batters downe the wall,
667636For the great
swinge and rudene
sse of his poi
se,
668637They place before his hand that made the engine,
669638Or tho
se that with the
finc
sse of their
soules,
670639By rea
son guide his execution.
671640Nest. Let this be granted, and
Achilles hor
se
672641Makes many
Thetis sonnes,
673642Agam. What trumpet
? looke
Menelaus.
675644Agam. What would you fore our tent.
676645AEne. Is this great
Agamemnons tent I pray you
? 678647AEne. May one that is a Herrald and a Prince,
679648Do a faire me
ssage to his Kingly eyes
? 680649Agam. With
surety
stronger then
Achill
es arme,
Fore
of Troylus and Cresseida.
681650Fore all the Greeki
sh heads, which with one voice,
682651Call A
gamemnon head and generall.
683652AEne. Faire leaue and large
security, how may
684653A
stranger to tho
se mo
st imperiall lookes,
685654Know them from eyes of other mortals?
687656AEne. I, I aske that I might waken reuerence,
688657And bid the cheeke be ready with a blu
sh,
689658Mode
st as morning, when
shee coldly eyes the youthfull (
Phoebus, 691659Which is that god, in o
ffice guiding men,
692660Which is the high and mighty
Agamemnon. 693661Agam. This Troyan
scornes vs, or the men of Troy,
694662Are ceremonious Courtiers.
695663AEne, Courtiers as free as debonaire, vnarm'd
696664As bending Angels, thats their fame in peace
: 697665But when they would
seeme
soldiers, they haue galls,
698666Good armes,
strong ioints, true
swords, & great
Ioues accord
699667Nothing
so full of heart
: but peace
AEneas, 700668Peace Troyan, lay thy
finger on thy lips,
701669The worthine
sse of prai
se di
staines his worth,
702670If that the prai
sd him-
selfe bring the prai
se forth.
703671But what the repining enemy commends,
704672That breath fame blowes, that prai
se
sole pure tran
scends.
705673Agam. Sir you of Troy, call you your
selfe
AEneas?
706674AEne. I Greeke, that is my name.
707675Agam. Whats your a
ffaires I pray you?
708676AEne. Sir pardon, 'tis for
Agamemnons eares.
709677Aga. He heeres naught priuately that comes from Troy.
711678AEne. Nor I from Troy come not to whi
sper with him,
712679I bring a trumpet to awake his eare,
713680To
set his
seat on that attentiue bent,
715682Agam. Speake frankly as the winde,
716683It is not
Agamemnons sleeping houre;
717684That thou
shalt know Troyan he is awake,
718685Hee tels thee
so him
selfe.
719686AEne. Trumpet blowe alowd,
720687Send thy bra
sse voyce through all the
se lazie tents,
C2 And
The history
721688And euery Greeke of mettell let him know,
722689 What Troy meanes fairely,
shall be
spoke alowd.
Soundtrumpet. 724690We haue great
Agamemnon heere in Troy,
725691A Prince calld
Hector, Priam is his father,
726692Who in his dull and long continued truce,
727693Is re
stie growne: He bad me take a Trumpet,
728694And to this purpo
se
speake. Kings, Princes, Lords,
729695If there be one among the fair'
st of Greece,
730696That holds his honour higher then his ea
se,
731697And feeds his prai
se, more then he feares his perill,
732698That knowes his valour, and knowes not his feare,
733699That loues his Mi
stre
sse more then in confe
ssion,
734700(With truant vowes to her owne lips he loues)
735701And dare avowe her beautie, and her worth,
736702In other armes then hers: to him this challenge;
737703Hector in view of Troyans and of Greekes,
738704Shall make it good, or do his be
st to do it:
739705He hath a Lady, wi
ser, fairer, truer,
740706Then euer Greeke did couple in his armes,
741707And will tomorrow with his Trumpet call,
742708Mid-way betweene your tents and walls of Troy,
743709To rouze a Grecian that is true in loue
: 744710If any come,
Hector shall honor him:
745711If none, heele
say in Troy when he retires,
746712The Grecian dames are
sun-burnt, and not worth
747713The
splinter of a Launce. Euen
so much.
748714Agam. This
shall be told our louers Lord
AEneas, 749715If none of them haue
soule in
such a kinde,
750716We left them all at home, but we are
souldiers,
751717And may that
souldier a meere recreant prooue,
752718That meanes not, hath not, or is not in loue:
753719If then one is, or hath a meanes to be,
754720That one meetes
Hector: if none el
se I am he.
755721Nest. Tell him of
Nestor, one that was a man
756722When
Hectors grand-
sire
suckt. He is old now,
757723But if there be not in our Grecian ho
ste,
758724A noble man that hath no
sparke of
fire
759725To an
swer for his loue, tell him from me,
Ile
of Troylus and Cresseida.
760726Ile hide my
siluer beard in a gould beauer,
761727And in my vambrace put my withered braunes
762728And meeting him tell him that my Lady,
763729Was fairer then his grandam, and as cha
st,
764730As may bee in the world, (his youth in
flood
) 765731Ile proue this troth with my three drops of bloud,
766732AEne. Now heauens for-fend
such
scarcity of men.
767733Vlis. Amen
: faire Lord
AEneas let me touch your hand,
770734To our pauilion
shall I leade you
sir;
771735Achilles shall haue word of this intent,
772736So
shall each Lord of Greece from tent to tent,
773737Your
selfe
shall fea
st with vs before you goe,
774738And
finde the welcome of a noble foe.
776739Vlis. Nestor.
Nest. What
saies
Vlisses? 778740Vlis. I haue a yong conception in my braine,
779741Be you my time to bring it to
some
shape.
782743Vlis: Blunt wedges riue hard knots, the
seeded pride,
783744That hath to this maturity blowne vp
784745In ranke
Achilles, mu
st or now be cropt,
785746Or
shedding breede a nour
sery of like euill,
786747To ouer-bulk vs all.
Nest. Well and how?
788748Vlis: This challeng that the gallant
Hector sends,
789749How euer it is
spread in generall name
790750Relates in purpo
se onely to
Achilles. 791751Nest. True the purpo
se is per
spicuous as
sub
stance,
792752Who
se gro
sene
sse little chara
cters
sum vp:
793753And in the publication make no
straine,
794754But that
Achilles weare his braine, as barren,
795755As banks of libia (
though Apollo
knowes 796756Tis dry enough) will with great
speed of iudgement,
797757I with celerity
finde
Hectors purpo
se, pointing on him.
799758Vlis. And wake him to the an
swere thinke you
? 800759Nest. Why tis mo
st meete; who may you elce oppo
se,
801760That can from
Hector bring tho
se honours o
ff,
802761If not
Achilles: though't be a
sportfull combat,
803762Yet in the triall much opinion dwells:
804763For here the Troyans ta
st our deer
st repute,
C3 With
The history
805764With their
fin'
st pallat, and tru
st to me
Ulisses 806765Our imputation
shalbe odly poizde
807766In this vilde a
ction, for the
succe
sse,
808767Although perticuler
shall giue a
scantling
809768Of good or bad vnto the generall,
810769And in
such
indexes (although
small pricks
811770To their
sub
sequent volumes) there is
seene,
812771The baby
figure of the gyant ma
sse,
813772Of things to come at large: It is
suppo
s'd
814773He that meetes
Hector, y
ssues from our choice,
815774And choice (being mutuall a
ct of all our
soules)
816775Makes merit her ele
ction, and doth boyle,
817776(As twere from forth vs all) a man di
still'd
818777Out of our vertues, who mi
scarrying,
819778What heart receiues from hence a conquering part,
820779To
steele a
strong opinion to them
selues.
824780Uliss. Giue pardon to my
speech
? therefore tis meete,
825781Achilles meete not
Hector, let vs like Marchants
826782Fir
st shew foule wares, and thinke perchance theile
sell;
827783If not; the lu
ster of the better
shall exceed,
829784By
shewing the wor
se
fir
st: do not con
sent,
830785That euer
Hector and
Achilles meet,
831786For both our honour and our
shame in this, are dog'd with
833788Nest. I
see them not with my old eyes what are they?
834789Vless. What glory our
Achilles shares from
Hector 835790Were he not proud, we al!
should
share with him:
836791But he already is too in
solent.
837792And it were better partch in Afrique Sunne,
838793Then in the pride and
sault
scorne of his eyes
839794Should he
scape
Hector faire. If he were foild,
840795Why then we do our maine opinion cru
sh 841796In taint of our be
st man. No, make a lottry
842797And by deui
se let blocki
sh A
iax draw
843798The
sort to
fight with
Hector, among our
selues,
844799Giue him allowance for the better man,
845800For that will phi
sick the great Myrmidon,
846801Who broyles in loud applau
se, and make him fall,
His
of Troylus and Cresseida.
847802His cre
st that prouder then blew Iris bends,
848803If the dull brainle
sse
Aiax come
safe o
ff 849804Weele dre
sse him vp in voices, if he faile
850805Yet go we vnder our opinion
still,
851806That we haue better men, but hit or mi
sse,
852807Our proie
cts life this
shape of
sence a
ssumes
853808Aiax imploy'd plucks downe
Achilles plumes.
854809Nest. Now
Vlisses I begin to reli
sh thy adui
se,
855810And I will giue a ta
ste thereof forthwith,
856811To
Agamemnon, go we to him
straight
857812Two curres
shall tame each other, pride alone
858813Mu
st arre the ma
sti
ffs on, as twere a bone.
Exeunt. 859814Enter Aiax and Thersites. 861816 Ther. A
gamemnon, how if he had biles, full, all ouer, gene
- 864818Ther: And tho
se byles did run (
say
so), did not the gene
- 865819rall run then, were not that a botchy core.
Aiax. Dogge.
867820Ther. Then would come
some matter from him, I
see none
869822Aia: Thou bitchwolfs
son can
st thou not heare, feele then.
871823Ther. The plague of Greece vpon thee thou mongrell beefe
873825Aiax. Speake then thou vn
salted leauen,
speake, I will beate
875827Ther. I
shall
sooner raile thee into wit and holine
sse, but I
876828thinke thy hor
se will
sooner cunne an oration without
877829booke, then thou learne praier without booke, thou can
st 878830strike can
st thou? a red murrion ath thy Iades trickes.
879831Aiax. Tode-
stoole? learne me the proclamation.
880832Ther: Doo
st thou thinke I haue no
sence thou
strike
st mee
881833thus?
Aiax. The proclamation.
882834Ther: Thou art proclaim'd foole I thinke.
883835Aiax. Do not Porpentin, do not, my
fingers itch:
884836Ther. I would thou did
st itch from head to foote, and I had
885837the
scratching of the, I would make thee the loth
some
st scab
886838in Greece, when thou art forth in the incur
sions thou
strike
st Aiax:
The history
887840Aiax. I
say the proclamation.
888841Ther. Thou gromble
st and rayle
st euery houre on
Achil- 889842les, and thou art as full of enuy at his greatne
sse, as
Cerberus 890843is at P
roserpinas beauty, I that thou bark
st at him.
891844Aiax. Mi
stres T
hersites.
892845Ther. Thou
should
st strike him.
AiaxCoblofe, 894846Hee would punne thee into
shiuers with his
fist, as a
sayler
895847breakes a bi
sket, you hor
son curre. Do? do
? 897848Aiax: Thou
stoole for a witch:
898849Ther. I, Do? do? thou
sodden witted Lord, thou ha
st 899850no more braine then I haue in mine elbowes, an
Asinico 900851may tutor thee, you
scuruy valiant a
sse, thou art heere but to
901852thra
sh Troyans, and thou art bought and
sould among tho
se
902853of any wit, like a Barbarian
slaue. If thou v
se to beate mee I
903854will beginne at thy heele, and tell what thou art by ynches,
904855thou thing of no bowells thou.
905856Aiax. You dog:
Ther. You
scuruy Lord.
908858Ther. Mars his Idiot, do rudene
sse, do Camel, do, do.
910859Achil. Why how now
Aiax wherefore do yee thus,
911860How now T
hersites whats the matter man.
912861Ther. You
see him there? do you?
913862Achil. I whats the matter.
Ther: Nay looke vpon him.
915863Achil: So I do, whats the matter?
916864Ther: Nay but regard him well.
917865Achil: Well, why
so I do.
918866Ther: But yet you looke not well vpon him, for who
some
919867euer you take him to be he is
Aiax. 920868Achil. I know that foole.
921869Ther. I but that foole knowes not him
selfe.
922870Aiax: Therefore I beate thee.
923871Ther: Lo, lo, lo, lo, what
modicums of wit he vtters, his eua
- 924872sions haue eares thus long, I haue bobd his braine more then
925873he has beate my bones. It will buy nine
sparrowes for a pen
- 926874ny, and his
pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a
spar
- 927875row: this Lord (
Achilles)
Aiax, who weares his wit in his bel
- 928876ly, and his guts in his head, I tell you what I
say of him.
930877Ach. What.
Ther. I
say this
Aiax.
Achil.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
932878Achil. Nay good
Aiax.
Ther.Has not
so much wit.
934879Achil. Nay I mu
st hold you.
935880Ther. As will
stop the eye of
Hellens needle, for whom
936881he comes to
fight.
Achil.Peace foole?
938882Ther. I would haue peace and quietne
sse, but the foole
939883will not, he there, that he: looke you there
? 940884Aiax. Oh thou damned curre I
shall-------------
941885Achil. Will you
set your wit to a fooles.
942886Ther. No I warrant you, the fooles will
shame it.
943887Patro. Good words
Thesites.
Achil.Whats the quarrell.
945888Aiax. I bad the vile oule goe learne mee the tenor of the
946889proclamation, and he railes vpon me.
947890Ther. I
serue thee not?
Aiax.Well, go to, go to.
949891Ther. I
serue here voluntary.
950892Achil. Your la
st seruice was
su
ffrance: twas not voluntary,
951893no man is beaten voluntary, A
iax was here the voluntary,
952894and you as vnder an Impre
sse.
953895Ther. E'ene
so, a great deale of your witte to, lies in your
954896sinnewes, or els there bee liers,
Hector shall haue a great
955897catch and knocke at either of your beains, a were as good
956898crack a fu
sty nut with no kernell.
957899Achil. What with me to T
hersites.
958900Ther. Thers
Vlisses and old
Nestor, who
se wit was mouldy
959901ere their grand
siers had nailes, yoke you like draught oxen,
960902and make you plough vp the wars.
962904Ther. Yes good
sooth, to
Achilles, to
Aiax, to ------------
963905Aiax. I
shall cut out your tongue.
964906Ther. Tis no matter, I
shall
speake as much as thou after
-(wards.
966907Patro. No more words T
hersites peace.
967908Ther. I will hold my peace when
Achilles brooch bids me,(
shall I?
969909Achil. There's for you
Patroclus.
970910Ther. I will
see you hang'd like
Clatpoles, ere I come any
971911more to your tents, I will keepe where there is wit
stirring,
972912and leaue the fa
ction of fooles.
Exit. 974914Achil. Marry this
sir is proclaim'd through all our ho
ste,
975915That
Hector by the
fir
st houre of the Sunne:
D Will
The history
976916Will with a trumpet twixt our Tents and Troy,
977917To morrow morning call
some Knight to armes,
978918That hath a
stomack, and
such a one that dare,
979919Maintaine I know not what, (tis tra
sh) farewell-------
980920Aiax. Farewell, who
shall an
swer him.
981921Achil. I know not, tis put to lottry, otherwi
se,
983923Aiax. O meaning you? I will go learne more of it.
984924Enter Priam, Hector, Troylus, Paris and Helenus. 985925Priam. After
so many houres, liues,
speeches
spent,
986926Thus once againe
saies
Nestor from the Greckes
: 987927Deliuer
Hellen, (and all domage els,
988928As honour, lo
sse of time, trauell, expence,
989929Wounds, friends and what els deere that is con
sum'd:
990930In hot dige
stion of this cormorant warre)
991931Shalbe
stroke o
ff,
Hector what
say you to't?
992932Hect: Though no man le
sser feares the Greekes then I
993933As farre as toucheth my particular: yet dread
Priam 994934There is no Lady of more
softer bowells,
995935More
spungy to
suck in the
sence of feare:
996936More ready to cry out, who knowes what followes
997937Then
Hector is: the wound of peace is
surely
998938Surely
secure, but mode
st doubt is calld
999939The beacon of the wi
se, the tent that
serches,
1000940Too'th bottome of the wor
st let
Hellen go,
1001941Since the
fir
st sword was drawne about this que
stion
1002942Euery tith
soule 'mong
st many thou
sand di
smes,
1003943Hath beene as deere as
Hellen. I meane of ours:
1004944If we haue lo
ste
so many tenthes of ours,
1005945To guard a thing not ours, nor worth to vs,
1006946(Had it our name) the valew of one ten,
1007947What merits in that rea
son which denies,
1010950Way you the worth and honour of a King
: 1011951So great as our dread fathers in a
scale
1012952Of common ounces? will you with
Compters summe,
1013953The pa
st proportion of his in
finite
And
of Troylus and Cresseida.
1014954And buckle in, a wa
ste mo
st fathomles,
1015955With
spanes and inches
so dyminutue:
1016956As feares and rea
sons: Fie for Godly
shame?
1017957Hele. No maruell though you bite
so
sharpe of rea
sons,
1018958You are
so empty of them
should not our father;
1019959Beare the great
sway of his a
ffaires with rea
son,
1020960Becau
se your
speech hath none that tell him
so?
1021961Troy. You are for dreames and
slumbers brother Prie
st,
1022962You furre your gloues with rea
son, here are your rea
sons
1023963You know an enemy intends you harme:
1024964You know a
sword imployde is perilous
1025965And rea
son
flies the obie
ct of all harme.
1026966Who maruells then when
Helenus beholds,
1027967A Gretian and his
sword, if he do
set
1028968The very wings of rea
son to his heeles,
1030969And
flie like chidden
Mercury from
Ioue 1029970Or like a
starre di
sorbd? nay if we talke of rea
son,
1031971Sets
shut our gates and
sleepe
: man-hood and honour,
1032972Should haue hare hearts, would they but fat their thoughts
1033973With this cram'd rea
son, rea
son and re
spe
ct,
1034974Make lyuers pale, and lu
stihood deie
ct.
1035975Hect. Brother,
shee is not worth, what
shee doth co
st the
1037977Troy. Whats aught but as tis valued.
1038978Hect. But valew dwells not in perticuler will,
1039979It holds his e
stimate and dignity,
1040980As well wherein tis precious of it
selfe
1041981As in the prizer, tis madde Idolatry
1042982To make the
seruice greater then the God,
1043983And the will dotes that is attributiue;
1044984To what infe
ctiou
sly it
selfe a
ffe
cts,
1045985Without
some image of th'a
ffe
cted merit,
1046986Troy. I take to day a wife, and my ele
ction
: 1047987Is led on in the condu
ct of my will,
1048988My will enkindled by mine eyes and eares,
1049989Two traded pilots twixt the dangerous
shore,
1050990Of will and Iudgement: how may I auoyde?
1051991(Although my will di
sta
st what it ele
cted)
D2 The
The history
1052992The wife I choo
se, there can be no eua
sion,
1053993To blench from this and to
stand
firme by honor,
1054994We turne not backe the
silkes vpon the marchant
1055995When we haue
soild them, nor the remainder viands,
1056996We do not throw in vnre
spe
ctue
siue,
1057997Becau
se we now are full, it was thought meete
1058998Pa is should do
some vengeance on the Greekes.
1059999Your breth with full con
sent bellied his
sailes,
10601000The
seas and winds (old wranglers) tooke a ttuce
: 10611001And did him
seruice, hee toucht the ports de
sir'd,
10621002And for an old aunt whom the Greekes held Captiue,
10631003He brought a Grecian Queene, who
se youth and fre
shne
sse,
10641004Wrincles
Apolloes, and makes pale the morning.
10651005Why keepe we her? the Grecians keepe our Aunt,
10661006Is
she worth keeping? why
shee is a pearle,
10671007Who
se price hath lan
sh't aboue a thou
sand
ships:
10681008And turn'd crown'd Kings to Marchants,
10691009If youle auouch twas wi
sdome
Paris went,
10701010As you mu
st needs, for you all cri'd go, go,
10711011If youle confe
sse be brought home worthy prize:
10721012As you mu
st needs, for you all, clapt your hands,
10731013And cry'd ine
stimable: why do you now
10741014The y
ssue of your proper wi
sdomes rate,
10751015And do a deed that neuer fortune did,
10761016Begger the e
stimation, which you priz'd
10771017Ritcher then
sea and land? O theft mo
st ba
se,
10781018That wee haue
stolne, what we do feare to keepe,
10791019But theeues vnworthy of a thing
so
stolne:
10801020That in their country did them that di
sgrace,
10811021We feare to warrant in our natiue place.
10851024Priam. What noi
se? what
shrike is this
? 10861025Troy. Tis our madde
sister I do know her voice,
10871026Cass. Cry Troyans.
Hect.It is
Crssandra!
10891027Cass. Cry Troyans cry, lend me ten thou
sand eyes,
10901028And I will
fill them with prophetick teares.
Cass.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
10921030Cass. Virgins, and boyes, mid-age, and wrinckled elders,
10931031Soft infancie, that nothing can
st but crie,
10941032Adde to my clamours: let vs pay be-times
10951033A moytie of that ma
sse of mone to come:
10961034Crie
Troyans crye, pra
cti
se your eyes with teares,
10971035Troy mu
st not bee, nor goodly I lion
stand.
10981036Our
fire-brand brother
Paris burnes vs all,
10991037Crie Troyans crie, a
Helen and a woe,
11001038Crie, crie, Troy burnes, or el
se let
Hellen goe.
Exit. 11011039Hect. Now youthfull
Troylus, do not the
se high
straines
11021040Of diuination in our Si
ster, worke
11031041Some touches of remor
se? or is your bloud
11041042So madly hott, that no di
scour
se of rea
son,
11051043Nor feare of bad
succe
sse in a bad cau
se,
11081046We may not thinke the iu
stne
sse of each a
ct 11091047Such, and no other then euent doth forme it,
11101048Nor once deie
ct the courage of our mindes,
11111049Becau
se
Cassandra'
s madde, her brain-
sick raptures
11121050Cannot di
sta
st the goodne
sse of a quarrell,
11131051Which hath our
seuerall honors all engag'd,
11141052To make it gratious. For my priuate part,
11151053I am no more toucht then all
Priams sonnes
: 11161054And
Ioue forbid there
should be done among
st vs,
11171055Such things as might o
ffend the weake
st spleene,
11191057Par. El
se might the world conuince of leuitie,
11201058As well my vnder-takings as your coun
sells,
11211059But I atte
st the gods, your full con
sent,
11221060Gaue wings to my propen
sion, and cut o
ff 11231061All feares attending on
so dire a proie
ct,
11241062For what (alas) can the
se my
single armes?
11251063What propugnation is in one mans valour
11261064To
stand the pu
sh and enmitie of tho
se
11271065This quarrell would excite? Yet I prote
st 11281066Were I alone to pa
sse the di
fficulties,
11291067And had as ample power, as I haue will,
D3 Paris
The history
11301068Paris should nere retra
ct, what he hath done,
11331071Like one be-
sotted on your
sweet delights,
11341072You haue the hony
still, but the
se the gall,
11351073So to be valiant, is no prai
se at all.
11361074Par. Sir, I propo
se not meerly to my
selfe,
11371075The plea
sures
such a beautie brings with it,
11381076But I would haue the
soile of her faire rape,
11391077Wip't of in honorable keeping her,
11401078What trea
son were it to the ran
sackt queene,
11411079Di
sgrace to your great worths, and
shame to me,
11421080Now to deliuer her po
sse
ssion vp
11431081On tearmes of ba
se compul
sion? can it be,
11441082That
so degenerate a
straine as this,
11451083Should once
set footing in your generous bo
somes?
11461084There's not the meane
st spirit on our party,
11471085Without a heart to dare, or
sword to drawe,
11481086When
Helen is defended: nor none
so noble,
11491087Who
se life were ill be
stowd, or death vnfam'd,
11501088Where
Helen is the
subie
ct. Then I
say,
11511089Well may we
fight for her, whom we know well,
11521090The worlds large
spaces cannot paralell.
11531091Hect. Paris and
Troylus, you haue both
said well,
11541092And on the cau
se and que
stion now in hand,
11551093Haue glozd, but
super
ficially, not much
11561094Vnlike young men, whom
Aristotle thought
11571095Vn
fit to heere
Morrall Philosophie;
11581096The rea
sons you alleadge, do more conduce
11591097To the hot pa
ssion of di
stempred blood,
11601098Then to make vp a free determination
11611099Twixt right and wrong: for plea
sure and reuenge,
11621100Haue eares more deafe then Adders to the voyce
11631101Of any true deci
sion. Nature craues
11641102All dues be rendred to their owners. Now
11651103What neerer debt in all humanitie,
11661104Then wife is to the husband
? if this lawe
11671105Of nature be corrupted through a
ffe
ction
And
of Troylus and Cresseida.
11681106And that great mindes of partiall indulgence,
11691107To their benummed wills re
sist the
same,
11701108There is a lawe in each well-orderd nation,
11711109To curbe tho
se raging appetites that are
11721110Mo
st di
sobedient and refra
cturie;
11731111If
Helen then be wife to
Sparta's King,
11741112As it is knowne
she is, the
se morrall lawes
11751113Of nature and of nations,
speake alowd
11761114To haue her back returnd: thus to per
sist 11771115In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong,
11781116But makes it much more heauie.
Hectors opinion
11791117Is this in way of truth: yet nere the le
sse,
11801118My
spritely brethren, I propend to you
11811119In re
solution to keepe
Helen still,
11821120For 'tis a cau
se that hath no meane dependance,
11831121Vpon our ioynt and
seuerall dignities.
11841122Tro. Why there you toucht the life of our de
signe:
11851123Were it not glory that we more a
ffe
cted,
11861124Then the performance of our heauing
spleenes,
11871125I would not wi
sh a drop of Troyan bloud,
11881126Spent more in her defence. But worthy
Hector, 11891127She is a theame of honour and renowne,
11901128A
spurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds,
11911129Who
se pre
sent courage may beate downe our foes,
11921130And fame in time to come canonize vs,
11931131For I pre
sume braue
Hector would not loo
se
11941132So rich aduantage of a promi
sd glory,
11951133As
smiles vpon the fore-head of this a
ction,
11981136You valiant o
ffspring of great
Priamus, 11991137I haue a roi
sting challenge
sent among
st 12001138The dull and fa
ctious nobles of the Greekes,
12011139VVill
shrike amazement to their drow
sie
spirits,
12021140I was aduertizd, their great generall
slept,
12031141VVhil
st emulation in the armie crept:
12041142This I pre
sume will wake him.
Exeunt. Enter
The history
12061144How now
Thersites? what lo
st in the Labyrinth of thy
12071145furie?
shall the Elephant
Aiax carry it thus? he beates me,
12081146and I raile at him
: O worthy
sati
sfa
ction, would it were
12091147otherwi
se: that I could beate him, whil
st hee raild at mee:
12101148Sfoote, Ile learne to coniure and rai
se Diuels, but Ile
see
12111149some i
ssue of my
spitefull execrations. Then ther's
Achilles, a
12121150rare inginer. If Troy bee not taken till the
se two vnder
- 12131151mine it, the walls will
stand till they fall of them-
selues.
12141152O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus, forget that thou
12151153art
Ioue the king of gods: and
Mercury, loo
se all the Ser
- 12161154pentine craft of thy Caduceus, if yee take not that little
12171155little le
sse then little witte from them that they haue
: 12181156which
short-armd Ignorance it
selfe knowes is
so aboun
- 12191157dant
scarce, it will not in circumuention deliuer a
flie from
12201158a
spider, without drawing their ma
ssie Irons, and cutting
12211159the web. After this the vengeance on the whole campe,
12221160or rather the Neopolitan bone-ache: for that me thinkes is
12231161the cur
se depending on tho
se that warre for a placket. I
12241162haue
said my prayers, and diuell Enuie
say
Amen. What ho
12271164Patrocl. Who
se there?
Thersites? good
Thersites come
12291166Thersi. If I could a remembred a guilt counterfeit, thou
12301167could
st not haue
slipt out of my contemplation: but it is no
12311168matter, thy
selfe vpon thy
selfe. The common cur
se of man
- 12321169kinde, Folly and Ignorance, be thine in great reuenew: Hea
- 12331170uen ble
sse thee from a tutor, and di
scipline come not neere
12341171thee. Let thy bloud be thy dire
ction till thy death: then if
12351172she that layes thee out
sayes thou art not a faire cour
se, Ile
12361173be
sworne and
sworne vpon't,
shee neuer
shrowded any but
12381175Patro. What art thou deuout
? wa
st thou in prayer
? 12431180Achil. Where? where? O where? art thou come why my
cheese,
of Troylus and Cresseida.
12441181chee
se, my dige
stion, why ha
st thou not
serued thy
selfe into
12451182my table,
so many meales, come what's
Agamemnon? 12461183Ther. Thy commander
Achilles, then tell me
Patroclus,
12481185Patro. Thy Lord
Thersites. Then tell mee I pray thee,
12501187Ther. Thy knower,
Patroclus: then tell mee
Patroclus, 12521189Patro. Thou mu
st tell that knowe
st.
12541191Ther. Ile decline the whole que
stion.
Agamemnon com
- 12551192mands
Achilles, Achilles is my Lord, I am
Patroclus know
- 12631195Ther. Agamemnon is a foole to o
ffer to command
Achil- 12641196les, Achilles is a foole to be commanded.
Thersites is a foole
12651197to
serue
such a foole, and this
Patroclus is a foole po
sitiue.
12701199Ther. Make that demand of the Prouer, it
su
ffices mee
12711200thou art: looke you, who comes heere?
12681201Enter Agam: Vliss: Nestor, Diomed, Aiax & Calcas. 12721202Achil. Come
Patroclus, Ile
speake with nobody: come
12741204Ther. Here is
such patcherie,
such iugling, and
such kna
- 12751205uery: all the argument is a whore, and a Cuckold, a good
12761206quarrell to draw emulous fa
ctions, & bleed to death vpon.
12801208Patro. Within his tent, but ill di
spo
sd my Lord.
12811209Aga. Let it be knowne to him, that we are heere,
12821210He
sate our me
ssengers and we lay by,
12831211Our appertainings, vi
siting of him
12841212Let him be told
so, lea
st perchance he thinke,
12851213We dare not moue the que
stion of our place,
12881216Vliss. We
saw him at the opening of his tent,
12901218Aiax. Yes Lion
sick,
sick of proud heart, you may call it
E melan-
The history
12911219melancholy if you will fauour the man. But by my head 'tis
12921220pride: but why, why, let him
shew vs a cau
se
? 12941221Nest. What mooues
Aiax thus to bay at him?
12951222Vliss. Achillis hath inuegled his foole from him,
12981224Nest. Thē wil A
iax lack matter, if he haue lo
st his
argumẽt.
13001225Vli. No, you
see he is his argument, that has his argument
13021227Nes. All the better, their
fractiō is more our wi
sh then theit
13031228fa
ction, but it was a
strōg compo
sure a foole could di
sunite.
13051229Vli. The amity that wi
sdom knits not, folly may ea
sily vnty,
13071230Heere comes
Patroclus. Nest. No
Achilles with him.
13091231Vlis. The Elephant hath ioynts, but none for courte
sie,
13101232His legs are legs for nece
ssity, not for
flexure.
13111233Patro. Achilles bids me
say he is much
sorry,
13121234If any thing more then your
sport and plea
sure
13131235Did mooue your greatne
sse, and this noble
state,
13141236To call vpon him. He hopes it is no other
13151237But for your health, and your di
sge
stion
sake,
13181240We are too well acquainted with the
se an
swers,
13191241But his eua
sion winged thus
swift with
scorne,
13201242Cannot out-
flie our apprehen
sions,
13211243Much attribute he hath, and much the rea
son
13221244Why we a
scribe it to him. Yet all his vertues,
13231245Not vertuou
sly on his owne part beheld,
13241246Doe in our eyes begin to lo
se their glo
sse,
13251247Yea like faire fruite in an vnhol
some di
sh,
13261248Are like to rott vnta
sted. Go and tell him,
13271249We come to
speake with him, and you
shall not
sinne,
13281250If you do
say, we thinke him ouer-proud
13291251And vnder-hone
st: in
selfe a
ssumption greater
13301252Then in the note of iudgement. And worthier then him
selfe
13311253Heere tend the
sauage
strangene
sse he puts on
13321254Di
sgui
se, the holy
strength of their commaund,
13331255And vnder-write in an ob
seruing kinde,
13341256His humorous predominance: yea watch
His
of Troylus and Cresseida.
13351257His cour
se, and time, his ebbs and
flowes, and if
13361258The pa
ssage, and whole
streame of his commencement,
13371259Rode on his tide. Goe tell him this, and adde,
13381260That if he ouer-hold his price
so much,
13391261Weele none of him. But let him like an engine,
13401262Not portable, lye vnder this report.
13411263Bring a
ction hither, this cannot go to warre,
13421264A
stirring dwarfe we doe allowance giue,
13431265Before a
sleeping gyant. Tell him
so.
13441266Patr. I
shall, and bring his an
swer pre
sently.
13451267Agam. In
second voyce weele not be
satis
fied,
13461268We come to
speake with him
: V
lisses entertaine.
13481269Aiax. What is he more then another.
13491270Agam, No more then what he thinkes he is.
13501271Aiax. Is he
so much: doe you not thinke he thinkes him
- 13531274Aiax. Will you
sub
scribe his thought, and
say he is.
13541275Agam. No noble A
iax, you are as
strong, as valiant, as
13551276wi
se, no le
sse noble, much more gentle, and altogether
13571278Aia. Why
should a man be proud? how doth pride grow
? 13591280Agam. Your minde is the cleerer, and your vertues the
13601281fairer, hee that is proud eates vp him-
selfe: Pride is his
13611282owne gla
sse, his owne trumpet, his owne chronicle, and
13621283what euer prai
ses it
selfe but in the deed, deuoures the
13651286Aiax. I do hate a proud man, as I do hate the ingendring
13671288Nest. And yet he loues him
selfe, i
st not
strange?
13681289Vlis. Achilles will not to the
field to morrow.
13711292But carries on the
streame of his di
spo
se,
13721293Without ob
seruance, or re
spe
ct of any,
13731294In will peculiar, and in
selfe admi
ssion.
E2 Agam.
The history
13741295Agam. Why will he not vpon our faire reque
st,
13751296Vntent his per
son, and
share th'ayre with vs.
13761297Vlis. Things
small as nothing, for reque
sts
sake onely,
13771298He makes important, po
sse
st he is with greatne
sse,
13781299And
speakes not to him
selfe but with a pride,
13791300That quarrels at
selfe breath. Imagind worth,
13801301Holds in his bloud
such
swolne and hott di
scour
se,
13811302That twixt his mentall and his a
ctiue parts,
13821303Kingdomd
Achilles in commotion rages,
13831304And batters downe him
selfe. What
should I
say,
13841305He is
so plaguie proud, that the death tokens of it,
13851306Crie no recouerie.
Agam. Let
Aiax go to him,
13871307Deare Lord, go you, and greete him in his tent,
13881308'Tis
said he holds you well, and will be lead,
13891309At your reque
st a little from him
selfe.
13901310Ulis. O
Agamemnon let it not be
so,
13911311Weele con
secrate the
steps that
Aiax makes,
13921312When they go from
Achilles:
shall the proud Lord
13931313That ba
sts his arrogance with his owne
seame,
13941314And neuer
su
ffers matter of the world
13951315Enter his thoughts,
saue
such as doth reuolue,
13961316And ruminate him-
selfe:
shall he be wor
shipt,
13971317Of that we hold an idoll more then hee,
13981318No
: this thrice worthy and right valiant Lord,
13991319Shall not
so
staule his palme nobly acquird,
14001320Nor by my will a
ssubiugate his merit,
14011321As amply liked as
Achilles is, by going to
Achilles, 14021322That were to enlard his fat already pride,
14031323And adde more coles to
Cancer when he burne
s, 14041324With entertaining great
Hiperion, 14051325This Lord go to him.
Iupiter forbid,
14061326And
say in thunder
Achilles go to him.
14071327Nest. O this is well, he rubs the vaine of him.
14081328Diom. And how his
silence drinkes vp his applau
se,
14091329Aia. If I go to him: with my armed
fist ile pu
sh him ore the(face.
14121331Aia. And he be proud with me, Ile phe
se his pride,
Vlis.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
14141333Vliss. Not for the worth that hangs vpon our quarrell.
14161335Nest. How he de
scribes him
selfe.
14181337Uliss. The Rauen chides blackne
sse.
14191338Aiax. Ile tell his humorous bloud.
14201339Agam. Hee wil be the phi
sition, that
should bee the paci
- 14211340ent.
Aiax. And all men were of my minde.
14231341Vliss. Wit would bee out of fa
shion.
14241342Aiax: A
should not beare it
so, a
should eate
swords
fir
st? 14261344Nest. And two'od yow'd carry halfe.
14271345Aiax. A would haue ten
shares. I will kneade him, Ile
14281346make him
supple, he's not yet through warme?
14301347Nest. Force him with praiers poure in, poure, his ambition
14321349Vliss. My Lord you feed to much on this di
slike.
14331350Nest. Our noble generall do not do
so?
14341351Diom. You mu
st prepare to
fight without
Achilles.
14351352Vliss: Why tis this naming of him do's him harme,
14361353Here is a man but tis before his face, I wil be
silent.
14391355He is not emulous as
Achilles is.
14401356Vliss. Know the whole world hee is as valiant-------------
14411357Aiax. A hoar
son dog that
shall palter with vs thus, would
14431359Nest. What a vice were it in
Aiax now
: 14471363Diom. Or
strange or
selfe a
ffe
cted.
14481364Vliss: Thank the heauens Lord, thou art of
sweet compo
sure
14491365Prai
se him that gat thee,
shee that gaue thee
suck
: 14501366Fam'd be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature,
14511367Thrice fam'd beyond all thy erudition:
14521368But hee that di
sciplind thine armes to
fight,
14531369Let
Mars diuide eternity in twaine,
14541370And giue him halfe, and for thy vigour
: E3 Bull-
The history
14551371Bull-bearing
Milo his addition yeeld,
14561372To
sinowy A
iax, I will not prai
se thy wi
sdome,
14571373Which like a boord: a pale, a
shore con
fines
14581374This
spacious and dilated parts, here's
Nestor, 14591375In
stru
cted by the antiquary times
: 14601376He mu
st, he is, he cannot but be wi
se,
14611377But pardon father
Nestor were your daies
14621378As greene as A
iax, and your braine
so temper'd,
14631379You
should not haue the emynence of him,
14641380But be as A
iax. Aiax. Shall I call you father?
14681383Vliss. There is no tarrying here the Hart A
chilles, 14691384Keepes thicket, plea
se it our great generall,
14701385To call together all his
state of warre,
14711386Fre
sh Kings are come to Troy. To morrow
14721387We mu
st with all our maine of power
stand fa
st,
14731388And here's a Lord come Knights from Ea
st to We
st 14741389And call their
flower, A
iax shall cope the be
st.
14751390Aga. Go we to coun
sell, let
Achilles sleepe,
14761391Light boates
saile
swift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.
(Exeunt. 14791393Pan. Friend you, pray you a word, doe you not follow the
14801394yong Lord
Paris. Man. I
sir when he goes before mee.
14821395Pan. You depend vpon him I meane.
14831396Man. Sir I do depend vpon the Lord.
14841397Pan. You depend vpon a notable gentleman I mu
st needs
14891402Pan. Friend know mee better, I am the Lord
Pandarus.
14901403Man. I hope I
shall know your honour better?
14921405Man. You are in the
state of grace?
14931406Pan. Grace
? not
so friend, honour and Lord
ship are my ti
- 14951408Man. I do but partly know
sir, it is mu
sick in partes.
Pan.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
14971410Man. Wholy
sir.
Pan. Who play they to
? 15011413Man. At mine
sir, and theirs that loue mu
sicke.
15041416Pan. Friend we vnder
stand not one another, I am to court
- 15051417ly and thou to cunning, at who
se reque
st do the
se men play
? 15071418Man. Thats to't indeed
sir? marry
sir, at the reque
st of P
a- 15081419ris my Lord, who is there in per
son, with him the mortall
15091420V
enus, the heart bloud of beauty, loues inui
sible
soule
: 15121422Man. No
sir,
Hellen, could not you
finde out that by her at
- 15141424Pan. It
should
seeme fellow thou ha
st not
seene the Lady
15151425Cressid I come to
speake with P
aris, from the Prince
Troy- 15161426lus. I will make a complementall a
ssault vpon him for my
15181428Man. Sodden bu
sine
sse, theirs a
stew'd phra
se indeed.
15201430Pan. Faire be to you my Lord, and to al this faire company,
15211431faire de
sires in all faire mea
sure fairlie guide them, e
specially
15221432to you faire Queene faire thoughts be your faire pillow.
15241433Hel Dere Lord you are full of faire words
: 15251434Pan. You
speake your faire plea
sure
sweet Queene,
15261435Faire Prince here is good broken mu
sicke.
15271436Par. You haue broke it cozen: and by my life you
shall
15281437make it whole againe, you
shall peece it out with a peece of
15291438your performance.
Nel. he is full of harmony
: 15301439Pan: Truely Lady no:
Hel: O
sir
: 15321440Pan: Rude in
sooth, in good
sooth very rude.
15331441Paris: Well
said my Lord, well, you
say
so in
fits
: 15341442Pan. I haue bu
sine
sse to my Lord deere Queene? my Lord
15361444Hel. Nay this
shall not hedge vs out, weele here you
sing
15381446Pan: Well
sweete Queene you are plea
sant with mee, but,
mary
The history
15391447marry thus my Lord my deere Lord, and mo
st e
steemed
15411449Hel. My Lord
Pandarus hony
sweet Lord,
15421450Pan. Go too
sweet Queene, go to?
15431451Comends him
selfe mo
st a
ffe
ctionatly to you.
15441452Hel. You
shall not bob vs out of our melody,
15451453If you do our melancholy vpon your head.
15461454Pan. Sweet Queene,
sweet Queene, thats a
sweet Queene
15481456Hel. And to make a
sweet Lady
sad is a
sower o
ffence.
15491457Pan. Nay that
shall not
serue your turne, that
shall it not
15501458in truth la
? Nay I care not for
such words, no, no. And my
15511459Lord hee de
sires you that if the King call for him at
super.
15541462Pan. What
saies my
sweete Queenem,y very very
sweet
15561464Par. What exploit's in hand, where
suppes he tonight?
15581466Pan What
saies my
sweet Queene
? my cozen will fall out
15601468Hel. You mu
st not know where he
sups.
15611469Par. Ile lay my life with my di
spo
ser
Cresseida.
15621470Pan. No, no? no
such matter you are wide, come your
15651473Pan. I good my Lord, why
should you
say
Cresseida, no,
15661474your di
spo
sers
sick.
Par. I
spie
? 15681475Pan. You
spy? what doe you
spie
? come, giue mee an in
- 15711478Pan. My Neece is horribly in loue with a thing you haue
15731480Hel. Shee
shall haue it my Lord, if it bee not my Lord
15751482Pand. Hee
? no?
sheele none of him, they two are
15771484Hel. Falling in after falling out may make them three.
Pand.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
15781485Pand. Come, come, Ile heare no more of this, Ile
sing you a
15801487Hell: I, I, prethee, now by my troth
sweet lad thou ha
ste a
15831490Hell: Let thy
song be loue: this loue will vndoe vs all. Oh
15851492Pand: Loue? I that it
shall yfaith.
15861493Par: I good now loue, loue, nothing but loue.
Pand: Loue, loue, nothing but loue,still loue still more:
15891495 For o loues bow. Shoots Bucke and Doe. 15911496The shafts confound not that it wounds 15931498T
hese louers cry, oh ho they dye, 15941499Yet that which seemes the wound to kill, 15981503O ho grones out for ha ha ha ----
hey ho, 15991504Hell: In loue I faith to the very tip of the no
se.
16001505Par. He eates nothing but doues loue, and that breeds hot
16011506blood, and hot bloud begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts
16021507beget hot deedes, and hot deeds is loue.
16031508Pand. Is this the generation of loue: hot bloud hot
16041509thoughts and hot deedes, why they are vipers, is loue a ge
- 16061511Sweete Lord who
se a
field to day?
16071512Par: Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Anthenor, and all the gal
- 16081513lantry of T
roy.. I would faine haue arm'd to day, but my
Nell 16101515How chance my brother T
roylus went not
? 16111516Hell: He hangs the lippe at
something, you know al Lord
16131518Pand: Not I hony
sweete Queene, I long to heare how
16151520Youle remember your brothers excu
se?
F Hell. Com-
The history
16191524Pand. I will
sweet Queene.
Sound a retreat? 16201525Par: Their come from the
field: let vs to Priames Hall
16211526To greete the warriers. Sweet
Hellen I mu
st woe you,
16221527To helpe vn-arme our
Hector: his
stubborne bucles
16231528With this your white enchaunting
fingers toucht;
16241529Shall more obey then to the edge of
steele,
16251530Or force of Greeki
sh sinewes: you
shall do more
16261531Then all the Iland Kinges, di
sarme great
Hector. 16271532Hell: Twil make vs proud to be his
seruant
Paris}?
16281533Yea what he
shall receiue of vs in duty,
16291534Giues vs more palme in beauty then we haue.
16311536Par: Sweet aboue thought I loue her?
Exeunt. 16331538Pand: How now wher's thy mai
ster, at my Cou
sin
Cressidas?
16351539Man: No
sir
stayes for you to condu
ct him thether.
16371540Pand: O heere he comes? how now, how now?
16391542Pand: Haue you
seene my Cou
sine?
16401543Troy: No P
andarus, I
stalke about her dore
16411544Like to a
strange
soule vpon the Stigian bankes
16421545Staying for waftage. O be thou my Charon.
16431546And giue me
swift tran
sportance to the
se
fieldes,
16441547VVhere I may wallow in the lilly beds
16451548Propo
s'd for the de
seruer. O gentle
Pandar, 16461549From
Cupids shoulder plucke his painted wings,
16481551Pand: VValke heere ith'Orchard, Ile bring her
straight.
16501552Troy: I am giddy; expe
ctation whirles me round,
16511553Th'ymaginary reli
sh is
so
sweete,
16521554That it inchaunts my
sence: what will it be
16531555When that the watry pallats ta
ste indeed
16541556Loues thrice repured Ne
ctar? Death I feare me
16551557Sounding di
stru
ction, or
some ioy to fyne,
16561558To
subtill, potent, tun'd to
sharp in
sweetne
sse
16571559For the capacity of my ruder powers;
16581560I feare it much, and I doe feare be
sides
That
of Troylus and Cresseida.
16591561That I
shall loo
se di
stin
ction in my ioyes
16601562As doth a battaile, when they charge on heapes
16621564Pand. Shees making her ready,
sheele come
straight, you
16631565mu
st be witty now,
she does
so blu
sh, and fetches her wind
so
16641566short as if
shee were fraid with a
spirite: Ile fetch her; it is the
16651567prettie
st villaine,
she fetches her breath as
short as a new tane
16671569Troy: Euen
such a pa
ssion doth imbrace my bo
some,
16681570My heart beats thicker then a feauorous pul
se,
16691571And all my powers do their be
stowing loo
se
16701572Like va
ssalage at vnwares encountring
16711573the eye of maie
sty.
Enter pandar and Cressid. 16731574Pand. Come, come, what need you blu
sh? 16741575Shames a babie; heere
shee is now,
sweare the othes now to
16751576her that you haue
sworne to me: what are you gone againe,
16761577you mu
st be watcht ere you be made tame, mu
st you
? come
16771578your waies come your waies, and you draw backward weele
16781579put you ith
filles: why doe you not
speake to her. Come
16791580draw this curtaine, and lets
see your pi
cture; ala
sse the day?
16801581how loath you are to o
ffend daylight; and twere darke youd
16811582clo
se
sooner
: so
so, rub on and ki
sse the mi
stre
sse; how now
16821583a ki
sse in fee-farme: build there Carpenter, the ayre is
sweet.
16831584Nay, you
shall
fight your hearts out ere I part you. The faul
- 16841585con, as the tercell: for all the ducks ith riuer: go too, go too.
16861586Troy: You haue bereft me of all wordes Lady.
16871587Pand: Words pay no debts; giue her deeds: but
sheele be
- 16881588reaue you ath' deeds too if
she call your a
ctiuity in que
stion:
16891589what billing again: heeres in witne
sse whereof the parties in
- 16901590terchangeably. Come in come in Ile go get a
fire?
16921591Cres. Will you walke in my Lord?
16931592Troy. O
Cressed how often haue I wi
sht me thus.
16941593Cres. Wi
sht my Lord
? the gods graunt? O my Lord?
16951594Troy. What
should they graunt? what makes this pretty ab
- 16961595ruption: what to curious dreg e
spies my
sweete lady in the
16981597Cres. More dregs then water if my teares haue eyes.
16991598Troy. Feares make diuels of Cherubins, they neuer
see truly.
F2 Cres: blinde
The history
17011599Cres. Blind feare that
seeing rea
son leads,
finds
safer foo
- 17021600ting, then blind rea
son,
stumbling without feare: to feare
17041602Troy. O let my Lady apprehend no feare,
17051603In all
Cupids pageant there is pre
sented no mon
ster.
17061604Cres. Nor nothing mon
strous neither.
17071605Troy. Nothing but our vndertakings, when wee vow to
17081606weepe
seas, liue in
fire, eate rockes, tame Tygers, thin
- 17091607king it harder for our mi
stre
sse to deui
se impo
sition ynough
17101608then for vs to vndergoe any di
fficulty impo
sed. --
17111609This the mon
struo
sity in loue Lady, that the will is in
finite
17121610and the execution con
find, that the de
sire is boundle
sse, and
17141612Cres. They
say all louers
sweare more performance then
17151613they are able, and yet re
serue an ability that they neuer
17161614performe: vowing more then the perfe
ction of ten: and di
s- 17171615charging le
sse then the tenth part of one. They that haue
17181616the voyce of Lyons, and the a
ct of Hares are they not mon
- 17201618Troy. Are there
such:
such are not we; Prai
se vs as wee
17211619are ta
sted, allow vs as we proue: our head
shall goe bare till
17221620merit louer part no a
ffe
ction in reuer
sion
shall haue a prai
se
17231621in pre
sent: we will not name de
sert before his birth, and be
- 17241622ing borne, his addition
shall bee humble
: few wordes
17251623to faire faith. T
roylus shall be
such to
Cressid, as what en
- 17261624uy can
say wor
st shall bee a mocke for his truth, and what
17271625truth can
speake true
st not truer then T
roylus. 17291626Cres. Will you walke in my Lord?
17311627Pand. What blu
shing
still, haue you not done talking yet
? 17331628Cres. VVell Vncle what folly I commit I dedicate to
17351630Pand. I thanke you for that, if my Lord gette a boy of you,
17361631youle giue him me: be true to my Lord, if he
flinch chide me
17381633Troy: You know now your ho
stages, your Vncles word and
17401635Pand. Nay Ile giue my word for her too: our kindred
17411636though they be long ere they bee woed, they are con
stant
being
of Troylus and Cresseida.
17421637being wonne, they are burres I can tell you, theyle
sticke
17441639Cres. Bouldne
sse comes to me now and brings me heart:
17451640Prince
Troylus I haue loued you night and day, for many
17471642Troy: Why was my
Cressid then
so hard to wyn
? 17481643Cres: Hard to
seeme wonne: but I was wonne my Lord
17491644With the
fir
st glance; that euer pardon me
17501645If I confe
sse much you will play the tyrant,
17511646I loue you now, but till now not
so much
17521647But I might mai
ster it; in faith I lye,
17531648My thoughts were like vnbrideled children grone
17541649Too head
strong for their mother:
see wee fooles,
17551650VVhy haue I blab'd: who
shall be true to vs
17561651VVhen we are
so vn
secret to our
selues.
17571652But though I loue'd you well, I woed you not,
17581653And yet good faith I wi
sht my
selfe a man;
17591654Or that we women had mens priuiledge
17601655Of
speaking
fir
st. Sweete bid me hold my tongue,
17611656For in this rapture I
shall
surely
speake
17621657The thing I
shall repent:
see
see your
sylence
17631658Comming in dumbne
sse, from my weakne
sse drawes
17641659My very
soule of councell. Stop my mouth.
17651660Troy: And
shall, albeit
sweet mu
sique i
ssues thence.
17671662Cres. My Lord I doe be
seech you pardon me,
17681663Twas not my purpo
se thus to begge a ki
sse
: 17691664I am a
sham'd; O Heauens what haue I done!
17701665For this time will I take my leaue my Lord.
17711666Troy: Your leaue
sweete
Cressid:
17721667Pan: Leaue: and you take leaue till to morrow morning.
17741668Cres: Pray you content you.
Troy:What o
ffends you Lady?
17771670Troy: You cannot
shun your
selfe.
17791672I haue a kind of
selfe recids with you:
17801673But an vnkinde
selfe, that it
selfe will leaue,
17811674To be anothers foole. I would be gone:
F3 where
The history
17821675Where is my wit? I know not what I
speake,
17831676Tro. Well know they what they
speake, that
speake
so(wi
sely,
17851677Cres. Perchance my Lord I
show more craft then loue,
17861678And fell
so roundly to a large confe
ssion.
17871679To angle for your thoughts, but you are wi
se,
17881680Or el
se you loue not: for to be wi
se and loue,
17891681Exceeds mans might that dwells with gods aboue,
17901682Tro. O that I thought it could be in a woman.
17911683As if it can I will pre
sume in you,
17921684To feed for age her lampe and
flames of loue.
17931685To keepe her con
stancy in plight and youth.
17941686Out-liuing beauties outward, with a mind,
17951687That doth renew
swifter then blood decays,
17961688Or that per
sua
sion could but thus conuince me,
17971689That my integrity and truth to you,
17981690Might be a
ffronted with the match and waight,
17991691Of
such a winnowed purity in loue,
18001692How were I then vp-lifted! but ala
sse,
18011693I am as true as truths
simplicity,
18021694And
simpler then the infancy of truth.
18031695Cres. In that ile war with you,
Tro. O vertuous
fight,
18051696When right with right warres who
shalbe mo
st right,
18061697True
swains in loue
shall in the world to come
18071698Approue their trueth by T
roylus, when their rimes,
18081699Full of prote
st, of oath and big compare,
18091700Wants
simele's truth tyrd with iteration.
18101701As true as
steele, as plantage to the moone.
18111702As
sunne to day: as turtle to her mate,
18121703As Iron to Adamant
: as Earth to th' Center,
18141705(As truths anthentique author to be cited)
18151706As true as T
roylus, shall croune vp the ver
se,
18181709If I bee falce or
swarue a hayre from truth,
18191710When time is ould or hath forgot it
selfe,
18201711When water drops haue worne the
stones of T
roy, 18211712And blind obliuion
swallowd Citties vp.
And
of Troylus and Cresseida.
18221713And mighty
states chara
cter-les are grated,
18231714To du
sty nothing, yet let memory,
18241715From falce to falce among falce mayds in loue,
18251716Vpbraid my falcehood, when th'haue
said as falce,
18261717As ayre, as water, wind or
sandy earth,
18271718As Fox to Lambe; or Wolfe to Heifers Calfe,
18281719Pard to the Hind, or
stepdame to her Sonne,
18291720Yea let them
say to
sticke the heart of fal
sehood,
18311722Pand. Go to a bargaine made,
seale it,
seale it ile bee the
18321723witnes here I hold your hand, here my Cozens, if euer you
18331724proue fal
se one, to another
since I haue taken
such paine to
18341725bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald
18351726to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let
18361727all con
stant men be Troylu
sses all fal
se woemen
Cressids, and
18371728all brokers betweene panders;
say Amen.
18421731Wherevpon I will
shew you a Chamber, which bed be
- 18431732cau
se it
shall not
speake of your prety encounters pre
sse it to
18451734And Cupid grant all tong-tide maydens here,
18461735Bed, chamber, Pander to prouide this geere.
Exit. 18471736Enter Vlisses, Diomed, Nestor, Agamem, Chalcas. 18491737Cal Now Princes for the
seruice I haue done,
18501738Th'aduantage of the time prompts me aloud,
18511739To call for recompence: appere it to mind,
18521740That through the
sight I beare in things to loue,
18531741I haue abandond Troy, left my po
sse
ssion,
18541742Incurd a traytors name, expo
sd my
selfe,
18551743From certaine and po
sse
st conueniences,
18561744To doubtfull fortunes,
seque
string from me all,
18571745That time acquaintance, cu
stome and condition,
18581746Made tame, and mo
st familiar to my nature:
18591747And here to doe you
seruice am become,
18601748As new into the world,
strange, vnacquainted,
18611749I do be
seech you as in way of ta
st,
18621750To giue me now a little bene
fit.
F4 Out
The history
18631751Out of tho
se many regi
stred in promi
se,
18641752Which you
say liue to come in my behalfe:
18651753Aga. What would
st thou of vs Troian? make demand?
18671754Calc. You haue a Troian pri
soner cald
Antenor, 18681755Ye
sterday tooke, Troy holds him very deere.
18691756Oft haue you
(often haue you thankes therefore
) 18701757De
sird my
Cressed in right great exchange.
18711758Whom Troy hath
still deni'd, but this
Anthenor, 18721759I know is
such a wre
st in their a
ffaires:
18731760That their negotiations all mu
st slacke,
18741761Wanting his mannage and they will almo
st,
18751762Giue vs a Prince of blood a Sonne of
Pryam, 18761763In change of him. Let him be
sent great Princes,
18771764And he
shall buy my daughter: and her pre
sence,
18781765Shall quite
strike of all
seruice I haue done,
18811768And bring vs
Cressid hither,
Calcas shall haue
18821769What he reque
sts of vs
: good
Diomed 18831770Furni
sh you farely for this enterchange,
18841771Withall bring word If
Hector will to morrow,
18851772Bee an
swered in his challenge.
Aiax is ready.
18861773Dio. This
shall I vndertake, and tis a burthen
18871774Which I am proud to bcare.
Exit, 18881775Achilles and Patro stand in their tent. 18891776Uli. Achilles stands ith entrance of his tent,
18901777Plea
se it our generall pa
sse
strangely by him:
18911778As if he were forgot, and princes all,
18921779Lay negligent and loo
se regard vpon him,
18931780I will come la
st, tis like heele que
stion mee.
18941781Why
such vnpaul
siue eyes are bent? why turnd on him,
18951782If
so I haue deri
sion medecinable,
18961783To v
se betweene your
strangnes and his pride,
18971784Which his owne will
shall haue de
sire to drinke,
18981785It may doe good, pride hath no other gla
sse,
18991786To
show it
selfe but pride: for
supple knees,
19001787Feed arrogance and are the proud mans fees.
19011788Aga. Weele execute your purpo
se and put on,
A forme
of Troylus and Cresseida.
19021789A forme of
strangne
sse as we pas along,
19031790So do each Lord, and either greet him not
19041791Or els di
sdaynfully, which
shall
shake him more:
19051792Then if not lookt on. I will lead the way.
19061793Achil. What comes the generall to
speake with mee?
19071794You know my minde Ile
fight no more 'gain
st Troy.
19081795Aga. What
saies
Achilles would he ought with vs?
19091796Nest. Would you my Lord ought with the generall.
19151802Achil. What do's the Cnckould
scorne me?
19201807Aiax. I and good next day too.
Exeunt. 19211808Ach. What meane the
se fellowes know they not
Achilles? 19231809Patro. They pa
sse by
strangely: they were v
s'd to bend,
19241810To
send their
smiles before them to
Achilles:
19251811To come as humbly as they v
sd to creep, to holy aultars
: 19271813Tis certaine, greatne
sse once falne out with fortune,
19281814Mu
st fall out with men to, what the declin'd is,
19291815He
shall as
soone reade in the eyes of others
19301816As feele in his owne fall: for men like butter-
flies
19311817Shew not their mealy wings but to the Summer,
19321818And not a man for being
simply man,
19331819Hath any honour, but honour for tho
se honours
19341820That are without him, as place, ritches, and fauour,
19351821Prizes of accident as oft as merit
19361822Which when they fall as being
slipery
standers,
19371823The loue that lean'd on them as
slipery too,
19381824Doth one pluck downe another, and together, die in the fall,
19401826Fortune and I are friends, I do enioy:
G At
The history
19411827At ample point all that I did po
sse
sse,
19421828Saue the
se mens lookes, who do me thinkes
finde out:
19431829Some thing not worth in me
such ritch beholding,
19441830As they haue often giuen. Here is
Vlisses 19451831Ile interrupt his reading, how now
Vlisses? 19491835Writes me that man, how derely euer parted:
19501836How much in hauing or without or in
19511837Cannot, make bo
st to haue that which he hath,
19521838Nor feeles not what he owes but by re
fle
ction
: 19531839As when his vertues ayming vpon others,
19541840Heate them and they retort that heate againe
19561842Achil. This is not
strange
Vlisses, 19571843The beauty that is borne here in the face
: 19581844The bearer knowes not, but commends it
selfe.
1958.11845To others eyes, nor doth the eye it
selfe
1958.21846That mo
st pure
spirit of
sence, behold it
selfe
19591847Not going from it
selfe
: but eye to eye oppo
sed,
19601848Sallutes each other, with each others forme.
19611849For
speculation turnes not to it
selfe,
19621850Till it hath trauel'd and is married there
? 19631851Where it may
see it
selfe: this is not
strange at all.
19641852Uliss. I do not
straine at the po
sition,
19651853It is familiar, but at the authors drift,
19661854Who in his circum
stance expre
ssly prooues,
19671855That no man is the Lord of any thing:
19681856Though in and of him there be much con
sisting,
19691857Till he communicate his parts to others,
19701858Nor doth hee of him
selfe know them for aught:
19711859Till he behold them formed in the applau
se.
19721860Where th'are extended
: who like an arch reuerb'rate
19731861The voice againe or like a gate of
steele:
19741862Fronting the Sunne, receiues and renders back
19751863His
figure and his heate. I was much rap't in this,
19761864And apprehended here immediately,
Th'
of Troylus and Cresseida.
19771865Th'vnknowne
Aiax, heauens what a man is there?
19781866A very hor
se, that has he knowes not what
19801868Mo
st obie
ct in regard, and deere in v
se,
19811869What things againe mo
st deere in the e
steeme:
19821870And poore in worth, now
shall we
see to morrow,
19831871An a
ct that very chance doth throw vpon him
19841872Aiax renown'd
? O heauens what
some men doe,
19861874How
some men creepe in skitti
sh fortunes hall,
19871875Whiles others play the Ideots in her eyes,
19881876How one man eates into anothers pride,
19891877While pride is fa
sting in his wantone
sse.
19901878To
see the
se Grecian Lords, why euen already
: 19911879They clap the lubber
Aiax on the
shoulder
19921880As if his foote were one braue
Hectors bre
st,
19951883For they pa
st by me as mi
sers do by beggars,
19961884Neither gaue to me good word nor looke:
19981886Vliss. Time hath (my Lord
) a wallet at his back,
19991887Wherein he puts almes for obliuion:
20001888A great
siz'd mon
ster of ingratitudes,
20011889Tho
se
scraps are good deeds pa
st,
20021890Which are deuour'd as fa
st as they are made,
20031891Forgot as
soone as done, per
seuerance deere my Lord:
20041892Keepes honour bright, to haue done, is to hang,
20051893Quite out of fa
shion like a ru
sty male,
20061894In monumentall mockry? take the in
stant way,
20071895For honour trauells in a
straight
so narrow:
20081896Where on but goes a bre
st, keepe then the path
20091897For emulation hath a thou
sand Sonnes,
20101898That one by one pur
sue, if you giue way,
20111899Or turne a
side from the dire
ct forth right:
20121900Like to an entred tide they all ru
sh by,
20131901And leaue you him, mo
st, then what they do in pre
sent:
20171902Though le
sse then yours in pa
sse, mu
st ore top yours.
G2 For
The history
20181903For time is like a fa
shionable hoa
st,
20191904That
slightly
shakes his parting gue
st by th'hand,
20201905And with his armes out-
stretcht as he would
flie,
20211906Gra
spes in the commer
: the welcome euer
smiles,
20221907And farewell goes out
sighing. Let not vertue
seeke,
20231908Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit,
20241909High birth, vigor of bone, de
sert in
seruice,
20251910Loue, friend
ship, charity, are
subie
cts all,
20261911To enuious and calumniatig time.
20271912One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,
20281913That all with one con
sent prai
se new-borne gaudes,
20291914Though they are made and moulded of things pa
st,
20301915And goe to du
st, that is a little guilt,
20311916More laud then guilt ore-du
sted.
20321917The pre
sent eye prai
ses the pre
sent obie
ct.
20331918Then maruell not thou great and complet man,
20341919That all the Greekes begin to wor
ship
Aiax;
20351920Since things in motion
sooner catch the eye,
20361921That what
stirs not. The crie went once on thee,
20371922And
still it might, and yet it may againe,
20381923If thou would
st not entombe thy
selfe aliue,
20391924And ca
se thy reputation in thy tent,
20401925Who
se glorious deeds but in the
se
fields of late,
20411926Made emulous mi
ssions mong
st the gods them
selues
20421927And draue great
Mars to fa
ction.
20461931The rea
sons are more potent and heroycall:
20471932Tis knowne
Achilles that you are in loue
20511936The prouidencc thats in a watchfull
state,
20531938Findes bottom in the vncomprehen
siue depth,
20541939Keepes place with thought and almo
st like the gods,
20551940Do thoughts vnuaile in their dumbe cradles.
Thero
of Troylus and Cresseida.
20561941There is a my
sterie (with whom relation
20571942Dur
st neuer meddle) in the
soule of
state,
20581943Which hath an operation more diuine,
20591944Then breath or pen can giue expre
ssure to:
20601945All the commer
se that you haue had with Troy,
20611946As perfe
ctly is ours, as yours my Lord,
20621947And better would it
fitt
Achilles much,
20631948To throw downe
Hector then P
olixena. 20641949But it mu
st grieue young P
irhus now at home,
20651950When fame
shall in our Ilands
sound her trumpe,
20661951And all the Greeki
sh girles
shall tripping
sing,
20671952Great
Hectors sister did
Achilles winne,
20681953But our great
Aiax brauely beate downe him:
20691954Farewell my Lord
: I as your louer
speake,
20701955The foole
slides ore the Ice that you
should breake.
20711956Patr. To this e
ffe
ct Achilles haue I moou'd you,
20721957A woman impudent and manni
sh growne,
20731958Is not more loth'd then an e
ffeminate man
20741959In time of a
ction
: I
stand condemnd for this
20751960They thinke my little
stomack to the warre,
20761961And your great loue to me, re
straines you thus,
20771962Sweete rou
se your
selfe, and the weake wanton
Cupid, 20781963Shall from your neck vnloo
se his amorous fould,
20791964And like dewdrop from the Lions mane,
20811966Ach. Shall
Aiax fight with
Hector.
20821967Patro. I and perhaps receiue much honor by him.
20831968Achil. I
see my reputation is at
stake,
20861971Tho
se wounds heale ill, that men do giue them
selues,
20871972Omi
ssion to doe what is nece
ssary.
20881973Seales a commi
ssion to a blanke of danger,
20891974And danger like an ague
subtly taints
20901975Euen then when they
sit idely in the
sunne.
20911976Achil. Go call
Thersites hether
sweet P
atroclus, 20921977Ile
send the foole to
Aiax, and de
sire him
20931978T''inuite the Troyan lords after the combate,
G3 To
The history
20941979To
see vs heere vnarmd. I haue a womans longing,
20951980An appetite that I am
sick with-all,
20961981To
see great
Hector in his weeds of peace,
20971982To talke with him, and to behold his vi
sage,
20981983Euen to my full of view. A labour
sau'd.
21011986Thersi. Aiax goes vp and downe the
field asking for
21041988Thersi. He mu
st fight
singly to morrow with
Hector, and
21051989is
so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that
21081992Thersi. Why a
stalkes vp and downe like a peacock, a
21091993stride and a
stand: ruminates like an ho
sti
sse, that hath no
21101994Arithmatique but her braine to
set downe her reckoning:
21111995bites his lip with a politique regarde, as who
should
say
21121996there were witte in this head and twoo'd out: and
so there
21131997is. But it lyes as coldly in him, as
fire in a
flint, which will
21141998not
show without knocking, the mans vndone for euer, for
21151999if
Hector breake not his neck ith' combate, hee'le breakt
21162000him
selfe in vaine glory. Hee knowes not mee. I
sayd
21172001good morrow
Aiax: And hee replyes thankes
Agamem- 21182002non. What thinke you of this man that takes mee for the
21192003Generall? Hees growne a very land-
fish languagele
sse, a
21202004mon
ster, a plague of opinion, a man may weare it on both
21232006Achil. Thou mu
st be my Amba
ssador
Thersites.
21242007Thersi. Who I: why heele an
swer no body: hee profef
- 21252008ses not an
swering,
speaking is for beggers
: he weares his
21262009tongue in's armes. I will put on his pre
sence, let
Patroclus 21272010make demands to me. You
shall
see the pageant of
Aiax. 21292011Achil. To him
Patroclus, tell him I humbly de
sire the va
- 21302012liant
Aiax, to inuite the valorous
Hector to come vnarm'd
21312013to my tent, and to procure
safe-condu
ct for his per
son, of
21322014the magnanimous and mo
st illu
strious,
sixe or
seauen times
21332015honour'd Captaine Generall of the armie.
Agamemnon, Patr.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
21352017Patro. Ioue ble
sse great
Aiax.
Thers. Hum.
21372018Patr. I comc from the worthy
Achilles.
21392020Patr. Who mo
st humbly de
sires you to inuite
Hector to(his tent.
21422022Patr. And to procure
safe condu
ct from
Agamemnon.
21472026Thers. God buy you with all my heart.
21492028Thers. If to morrow be a faire day, by a leuen of the clock
21502029it will goe one way or other, how
soeuer he
shall pay for me
21512030ere hee ha's me.
Patr. Your an
swer
sir.
21532031Thers. Fare yee well with all my heart.
21542032Achil. Why, but he is not in this tune, is he
? 21552033Thers. No
: but out of tune thus. What mu
sick will be in
21562034him, when
Hector ha's knockt out his braines, I know not.
21572035But I am
sure none, vnle
sse the
fidler
Apollo get his
sinnews
21592037Achil. Come, thou
shalt beare a letter to him
straight.
21612038Thers. Let mee beare another to his hor
se, for thats the
21632040Achil. My minde is troubled like a fountaine
stird,
21642041And I my
sel
se
see not the bottome of it.
21652042Thers. Would the fountaine of your minde were cleere
21662043againe, that I might water an A
sse at it, I had rather be a tick
21672044in a
sheepe, then
such a valiant ignorance.
21682045Enter at one doore AEneas, at another Paris, Deiphobus, 21692046Autemor, Diomed the Grecian with torches. 21712047Paris. See ho
? who is that there?
21732049AEne. Is the Prince there in per
son?
21742050Had I
so good occa
sion to lye long
21752051As your prince
Paris, nothing but heauenly bu
sine
sse,
21762052Should rob my bed mate of my company.
21772053Dio. That's my minde too? good morrow Lord
AEneas.
21792054Paris. A valiant Greeke
AEneas take his hand.
Witnesse
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21802055Witne
sse the proce
sse of your
speech
: wherein
21812056You told how
Dyomed a whole weeke by daies,
21832058AEne. Health to you valiant
sir,
21842059During all que
stion of the gentle truce:
21852060But when I meete you arm'd, as black de
fiance,
21862061As heart can thinke or courage execute.
21872062Diom. The one and other
Diomed embraces,
21882063Our blouds are now in calme, and
so long helth:
21892064Lul'd when contention, and occa
sion meete,
21902065By
Ioue ile play the hunter for thy life,
21912066With all my force, pur
suite, and pollicy.
21922067AEne. And thou
shalt hunt a Lyon that will
flie,
21932068With his face back-ward, in humane gentlene
sse:
21942069Welcome to Troy, now by
Anchises life,
21952070Welcome indeed
: by
Uenus hand I
swere:
21962071No man aliue can loue in
such a
sort,
21972072The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently.
21982073Diom. We
simpathize.
Ioue let
AEneas liue
21992074(If to my
sword his fate be not the glory)
22002075A thou
sand compleate cour
ses of the Sunne,
22012076But in mine emulous honor let him die
: 22022077With euery ioynt a wound and that to morrow------
22042079Diom. We do and long to know each other wor
se.
22052080Par. This is the mo
st de
spightfull gentle greeting,
22062081The noble
st hatefull loue that ere I heard of, what bu
sine
sse
22082083AEne. I was
sent for to the King? but why I know not.
22092084Par. His purpo
se meetes you
? twas to bring this Greeke,
22102085To
Calcho's hou
se, and there to render him:
22112086For the enfreed
Anthenor the faire
Cressid, 22122087Lets haue your company, or if you plea
se,
22132088Ha
st there before vs. I con
stantly beleeue,
22142089(Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge)
22152090My brother
Troylus lodges there to night,
22162091Rou
se him and giue him note of our approch,
22172092With the whole quality wherefore:
I feare
of Troylus and Cresseida.
22182093I feare we
shall be much vnwelcome.
22192094AEneas. That I a
ssure you:
Troylus had rather Troy were
22202095borne to Greece, then
Cresseid borne from Troy.
22232097The bitter di
spo
sition of the time will haue it
so:
22262100Paris. And tell me noble
Diomed, faith tell me true,
22272101Euen in
soule of
sound good fellow
ship,
22282102Who in your thoughts, de
serues faire
Helen be
st,
22312105Hee merits well to haue her that doth
seeke her,
22322106Not making any
scruple of her
soyle,
22332107With
such a hell of paine, and world of charge.
22342108And you as well to keepe her, that defend her,
22352109Not pallating the ta
ste of her di
shonour
22362110With
such a co
stly lo
sse of wealth and friends,
22372111He like a puling Cuckold would drinke vp,
22382112The lees and dregs of a
flat tamed peece:
22392113You like a letcher out of whori
sh loynes,
22402114Are plea
sd to breed out your inheritors,
22412115Both merits poyzd, each weighs nor le
sse nor more,
22422116But he as he, the heauier for a whore.
22432117Paris. You are too bitter to your country-woman
22442118Diom. Shees bitter to her country, heare me P
aris, 22452119For euery falfe drop in her bawdy veines,
22462120A Grecians life hath
sunke
: for euery
scruple
22472121Of her contaminated carrion waight,
22482122A Troyan hath beene
slaine. Since
she could
speake,
22492123Shee hath not giuen
so many good words breath,
22502124As for her Greekes and Troyans
su
ffred death.
22512125Paris. Faire
Diomed you do as chapmen do,
22522126Di
sprai
se the thing that they de
sire to buy,
22532127But we in
silence hold this vertue well,
22542128Weele not commend, what wee intend to
sell. Heere lyes
Enter Troylus and Cresseida.
22572130Troy. Deere, trouble not your
selfe, the morne is colde.
H Cres.
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22582131Cres. Then
sweet my Lord ile call mine vnckle downe,
22612134To bed to bed:
sleepe kill tho
se pritty eyes,
22622135And giue as
soft attachment to thy
sences,
22632136As infants empty of all thought.
22672140Troyl. O
Cresseida! but that the bu
sie day,
22682141Wak't by the Larke hath rouzd the ribald Crowes,
22692142And dreaming night will hide our ioyes no longer,
22712144Cres. Night hath beene too briefe.
22722145Tro. Be
shrew the witch! with venemous wights
she
staies
22732146As tediou
sly as hell, But
flies the gra
spes of loue,
22742147With wings more momentary
swift then thought,
22752148You will catch colde and cur
se me.
22762149Cres. Prithee tarry, you men will neuer tarry,
22772150O fooli
sh C
resseid, I might haue
still held of,
22782151And then you would haue tarried. Harke ther's one vp.
22792152Pand. Whats all the doorcs open heere
? 22812154Cres. A pe
stilence on him
: now will he be mocking
: 22832156Pand. How now, how now, how go maiden-heads,
22842157Heere you maide, where's my cozin C
resseid? 22852158Cres. Go hang your
selfe, you naughty mocking vncle,
22862159You bring me to doo---and then you
floute me to.
22872160Pand. To do what, to do what? let her
say what,
22892162Cres. Come, come, be
shrew your heart, youle nere be good,
22912164Pand. Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore
chipochia, ha
st 22922165not
slept tonight
? would hee not (a naughty man) let it
22942167Cres. Did not I tell you? would he were knockt ith' head,
22952168Who's that at doore, good vnckle go and
see.
One knocks. My
of Troylus and Cresseida.
22962169My Lord, come you againe into my chamber,
22972170You
smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.
22992172Cres. Come you are deceiued, I thinke of no
such thing,
23002173How earne
stly they knock, pray you come in.
Knock. 23012174I would not for halfe
Troy haue you
seene here,
Exeunt. 23022175Pand. Who's there? what's the matter? will you beate
23032176downe the doore? How now, what's the matter?
23042177AEne. Good morrow Lord, good morrow.
23052178Pand. Who's there my Lord
AEneas: by my troth I knew
23062179you not: what newes with you
so early?
23072180AEne. Is not Prince T
roylus heere
? 23082181Pand. Here, what
should he do here?
23092182AEne. Come he is here, my Lord, do not deny him,
23102183It doth import him much to
speake with me.
23112184Pan. Is he here
say you? its more then I know ile be
sworne
23122185For my owne part I came in late: what
should hee doe
23142187AEne. Who, nay then! Come. come, youle do him wrong,
23152188ere you are ware, youle be
so true to him, to be fal
se to him
: 23162189Do not you know of him, but yet go fetch him hither, go.
23192190Troyl. How now, whats the matter?
23202191AEne. My Lord, I
scarce haue lei
sure to
salute you,
23212192My matter is
so ra
sh: there is at hand,
23222193Paris your brother, and
Deiphobus, 23232194The Grecian
Diomed, and our
Anthenor 23242195Deliuer'd to him, and forth-with,
23252196Ere the
fir
st sacri
fice, within this houre,
23262197We mu
st giue vp to
Diomedes hand
23292200AEne. By
Priam and the generall
state of T
roy, 23302201They are at hand, and ready to e
ffe
ct it.
23312202Troyl. How my atchiuements mock me,
23322203I will go meete them: and my Lord
AEneas, 23332204We met by chance, you did not
finde me here.
23342205AEn. Good, good, my lord, the
secrets of neighbor
Pandar 23352206Haue not more guift in taciturnitie.
Exeunt. H2 Pand.
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23372207Pand. I
st po
ssible
: no
sooner got but lo
st, the diuell take
23382208Anthenor, the young Prince will go madde, a plague vpon
23392209Anthenor. I would they had brok's neck.
23402210 Enter Cress. How now? what's the matter
? who was heere
? 23422212Cres. Why
sigh you
so profoundly, wher's my Lord
? gone?
23432213tell me
sweete Vncle, whats the matter.
23442214Pan. Would I were as deepe vnder the earth as I am aboue.
23462215Cres. O the Gods, whats the matter?
23472216Pand. Pray thee get thee in: would thou had
st nere been
23482217borne, I knew thou woulde
st be his death. O poore Gentle
- 23502219Cres. Good vnckle, I be
seech you on my knees, whats the
23522221Pand. Thou mu
st be gone wench, thou mu
st be gone: thou
23532222art chang'd for
Anthenor. Thou mu
st to thy father and bee
23542223gone from T
roylus, twill be his death, twill bee his bane, hee
23562225Cres. O you immortall Gods, I will not go.
23582227Cres. I will not Vncle. I haue forgot my father,
23592228I know no touch of con
sanguinitie,
23602229No kinne, no loue, no bloud, no
soule
so neere me
23612230As the
sweete T
roylus. O you gods diuine,
23622231Make
Cresseids name the very crowne of fal
sehood,
23632232If euer
she leaue T
roylus. Time, force and death,
23642233Do to this body what extreames you can
: 23652234But the
strong ba
se, and building of my loue,
23662235Is as the very center of the earth,
23672236Drawing all things to it. Ile go in and weepe.
23692238Cres. Teare my bright haire, &
scratch my prai
sed cheekes,
23712239Crack my cleare voyce with
sobs, and breake my heart,
23722240With
sounding T
roylus: I will not go from Troy.
23732241Enter Paris, Troyl. AEneas, Deiphob, Anth. Diomedes. 23752242Par. It is great morning, and the houre pre
fixt,
23762243For her deliuery to this valiant Greeke,
23772244Comes fa
st vpon: good my brother T
roylus Tell
of Troylus and Cresseida.
23782245Tell you the Lady what
she is to doe,
23812248Ile bring her to the Grecian pre
sently
: 23822249And to his hand when I deliuer her,
23832250Thinke it an altar, and thy brother T
roylus 23842251A prie
st there o
ffring to it his owne heart.
23862253And would, as I
shall pitty I could helpe:
23872254Plea
se you walke in my Lords
? Exeunt. 23902257Cress. Why tell you me of moderation?
23912258The greife is
fine, full, perfe
ct that I ta
ste,
23922259And violenteth in a
sence as
strong
23932260As that which cau
seth it, how can I moderate it
? 23942261If I could temporize with my a
ffe
ctions,
23952262Or brew it to a weake and coulder pallat,
23962263The like alayment could I giue my griefe
: 23972264My loue admittes no quali
fiing dro
sse,
23982265No more my griefe in
such a precious lo
sse.
23992267Pan. Here, here, here he comes, a
sweete ducks.
24012269Pan. What a paire of
spe
ctacles is here, let me embrace too,
24022270Oh heart, as the goodly
saying is, Oh heart, heauy heart,
24032271why
sigh
st thou without breaking
: where hee an
swers a
- 24042272gaine, becau
se thou can
st not ea
se thy
smart by friend
shippe
24052273nor by
speaking: there was neuer a truer rime. Let vs ca
st a
- 24062274way nothing, for wee may liue to haue need of
such a ver
se,
24072275We
see it, we
see it, how now lambs?
24082276Troy. Cressid I loue thee in
so
strain'd a purity,
24092277That the ble
st Gods as angry with my fancy:
24102278More bright in zeale then the deuotion, which
24112279Cold lippes blow to their dieties, take thee from me.
24132281Pan I, I, I, I, tis to plaine a ca
se.
24142282Cres. And is it true that I mu
st go from Troy
? H3 Troy.
The history
24192287Troy. And
suddenly, where iniury of chance
24202288Puts back, leaue taking, iu
ssles roughly by
: 24212289All time of pau
se: rudely beguiles our lippes
24222290Of all reioyndure: forcibly preuents
24232291Our lock't embra
sures,
strangles our dere vowes,
24242292Euen in the birth of our owne laboring breath:
24252293We two that with
so many thou
sand
sighes,
24262294Did buy each other, mu
st poorely
sell our
selues
: 24272295With the rude breuity, and di
scharge of one,
24282296Iniurious time now with a robbers ha
st,
24292297Cram's his ritch theeu'ry vp hee knowes not how.
24302298As many farewells as be
starres in heauen.
24312299With di
stin
ct breath, and con
signde ki
sses to them,
24322300He fumbles vp into a loo
se adewe:
24332301And skants vs with a
single fami
sht ki
sse,
24342302Di
sta
sted with the
salt of broken teares.
24352303AEneas within. My Lord is the Lady ready
? 24362304Troy. Harke, you are call'd,
some
say the
Genius 24372305Cries
so to him that in
stantly mu
st die,
24382306Bid them haue pacience
she
shall come anon.
24392307Pan. Where are my teares raine to lay this winde, or my
24402308heart wilbe blowne vp by my throate.
24412309Cress. I mu
st then to the Grecians.
24432311Cress. A wofull C
ressid 'mong
st the merry Greekes,
24452313Troy. Here mee loue
? be thou but true of heart.
24462314Cres. I true? how now? what wicked deme is this?
24472315Troy. Nay we mu
st v
se expo
stulation kindely,
24492317I
speake not be thou true as fearing thee.
24502318For I will throw my gloue to death him
selfe,
24512319That there is no maculation in thy heart:
24522320But bee thou true
say I to fa
shion in,
My
of Troylus and Cresseida.
24532321My
sequent prote
station, bee thou true, and I will
see thee.
24552322Cres. Oh you
shalbe expo
sd my Lord to dangers,
24562323As in
finite as imminent: but ile be true.
24572324Troy. And ile grow friend with danger, were this
sleeue.
24592325Cres. And you this gloue, when
shall I
see you?
24612326Troy. I will corrupt the Grecian centinells,
24622327To giue thee nightly vi
sitation, but yet be true.
24642328Cres. Oh heauens be true againe?
24652329Troy. Here why I
speake it loue,
24662330The Grecian youths are full of quality,
24682331And
swelling ore with arts and excerci
se:
24692332How nouelty may moue, and parts with portion,
24702333Alas a kinde of Godly iealou
sie,
24712334(Which I be
seech you cal a vertuous
sinne,)
24732336Cres. Oh heauens you loue mee not!
24752338In this I do not call your faith in que
stion:
24762339So mainely as my merit. I cannot
sing
24772340Nor heele the high lauolt, nor
sweeten talke,
24782341Nor play at
subtill games, faire vertues all:
24792342To which the Grecians are mo
st prompt and pregnant,
24802343But I can tell that in each grace of the
se
: 24812344There lurkes a
still, and dumb-di
scour
siue diuell
24822345That tempts mo
st cunningly, but be not tempted.
24842347Troy. No, but
somthing may be done that we will not,
24852348And
sometimes we are diuells to our
selues:
24862349When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
24872350Pre
suming on their changefull potency.
24892352Troy. Come ki
sse, and let vs part.
24912354Troy. Good brother come you hither
? 24922355And bring
Eneas and the Grecian with you.
24942357Troy. Who I, alas it is my vice, my fault,
24952358Whiles others
fish with craft for great opinion,
I with
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24962359I with great truth catch mere
simplicity,
24972360Whil
st some with cunning guild their copper crownes,
24982361With truth and plaine
sse I do were mine bare:
25002362Feare not my truth, the morrall of my wit,
25012363Is plaine and true
? ther's all the reach of it,
25022364Welcome
sir
Diomed, here is the Lady,
25032365Which for
Antenor we deliuer you.
25042366At the port (Lord) Ile giue her to thy hand,
25052367And by the way po
sse
sse thee what
she is
25062368Entreate her faire, and by my
soule faire Greeke,
25072369If ere thou
stand at mercy of my
sword:
25082370Name
Cressid, and thy life
shalbe as
safe,
25112373So plea
se you
saue the thankes this Prince expe
cts
: 25122374The lu
stre in your eye, heauen in your cheeke,
25132375Pleades your faire v
sage, and to
Diomed, 25142376You
shalbe mi
stres, and command him wholy.
25152377Troy. Grecian thou do'
st not v
se me curteou
sly,
25162378To
shame the
seale of my petition to thee:
25172379In prai
sing her. I tell thee Lord of Greece,
25182380She is as farre high
soaring ore thy prai
ses:
25192381As thou vnworthy to be call'd her
seruant,
25202382I charge thee v
se her well, euen for my charge:
25212383For by the dreadfull P
luto, if thou do
st not,
25222384Though the great bulke
Achilles be thy guard,
25242386Diom. Oh be not mou'd Prince
Troylus, 25252387Let me be priueledg'd by my place and me
ssage
: 25262388To be a
speaker free
? when I am hence,
25272389Ile an
swer to my lu
st, and know you Lord
25282390Ile nothing do on charge, to her owne worth,
25292391Shee
shalbe priz'd: but that you
say be't
so,
25302392I
speake it in my
spirit and honour no.
25312393Troy. Come to the port Ile tel thee
Diomed, 25322394This braue
shall oft make thee to hide thy head,
25332395Lady giue me your hand, and as we walke,
25342396To our owne
selues bend we our needfull talke.
Paris.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
25372398AEne. How haue we
spent this morning
? 25382399The Prince mu
st thinke me tardy and remi
sse,
25392400That
swore to ride before him to the
field,
25402401Par. Tis
Troylus falte, come, come, to
field with him.
Exeu. 25472402Enter Aiax armed, Achilles, Patroclus, Agam. 25482403Menelaus, Vlisses, Nester, Calcas.. &c. 25492404Aga. Here art thou in appointment fre
sh and faire,
25502405Anticipating time. With
starting courage,
25512406Giue with thy trumpet a loude note to Troy
25522407Thou dreadfull
Aiax that the appauled aire,
25532408May pearce the head of the great Combatant, and hale him
25552410Aiax. Thou, trumpet, ther's my pur
se,
25562411Now cracke thy lungs, and
split thy bra
sen pipe
: 25572412Blow villaine, till thy
sphered Bias cheeke,
25582413Out-
swell the collick of puft
Aquilon, 25592414Come
stretch thy che
st, and let thy eyes
spout bloud
: 25632418Aga. Is not yond
Diomed with
Calcas daughter.
25642419Vliss. Tis he, I ken the manner of his gate,
25652420He ri
ses on the too: that
spirit of his
25662421In a
spiration lifts him from the earth.
25692424Aga. Mo
st deerely welcome to the Greekes
sweete Lady.
25712425Nest. Our generall doth
salute you with a ki
sse.
25722426Vliss. Yet is the kindne
sse but perticular, twere better
shee
25742428Nest. And very courtly coun
sell. Ile beginne:
so much for (
Nestor. 25762429Achil. Ile take that winter from your lips faire Lady,
25782431Men. I had good argument for ki
ssing once.
25792432Patro. But thats no argument for ki
ssing now,
25802433For thus pop't P
aris in his hardiment,
I Vliss.
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25812435Vliss. Oh deadly gall and theame of all our
scornes,
25822436For which we loo
se our heads to guild his hornes.
25832437Patro. The
fir
st was
Menelaus ki
sse this mine,
25862440Patr. Paris and I ki
sse euermore for him.
25872441Mene. Ile haue my ki
sse
sir
? Lady by your leaue.
25882442Cres. In ki
ssing do you render or recciue.
25902444Cres. Ile make my match to liue,
25912445The ki
sse you take is better then you giue: therefore no ki
sse.
25932446Mene. Ile giue you boote, ile giue you three for one.
25942447Cres. You are an od man giue euen or giue none.
25952448Mene. An odde man Lady, euery man is odde.
25962449Cres. No
Paris is nor, for you know tis true,
25972450That you are odde and he is euen with you.
26002453Vliss. It were no match, your naile again
st his horne,
26012454May I
sweete Lady begge a ki
sse of you.
26022455Cres. You may.
Uliss I do de
sire it.
26052457Vlis. Why then for
Venus sake giue me a ki
sse,
26062458When
Hellen is a maide againe and his -------------
26072459Cres. I am your debtor, claime it when tis due.
26082460Vlis. Neuers my day, and then a ki
sse of you.
26092461Diom. Lady a word, ile bring you to your father.
26122464Ther's language in her eye, her cheeke her lip,
26132465Nay her foote
speakes, her wanton
spirits looke out
26142466At euery ioynt and motiue of her body,
26152467Oh the
se encounterers
so glib of tongue,
26162468That giue a coa
sting welcome ere it comes.
26172469And wide vnclap
se the tables of their thoughts,
26182470To euery tickli
sh reader,
set them downe,
26192471For
slutti
sh spoiles of opportunity
: 26202472And daughters of the game.
Flowrish enter all of Troy. All.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
26252475AEne. Haile all the
state of Greece: what
shalbe done,
26262476To him that vi
ctory commands, or doe you purpo
se,
26272477A vi
ctor
shalbe knowne, will you the knights
26282478Shall to the edge of all extremity
26292479Pur
sue each other, or
shall they be diuided,
26302480By any voice or order of the
field,
Hector bad aske?
26312481Aga. Which way would
Hector haue it?
26322482AEne. He cares not, heele obay condicions.
26332483Aga: Tis done like
Hector, but
securely done,
26342484A little proudly, and great deale mi
spri
sing:
26362486AEne. If not
Achilles sir, what is your name?
26382488Ene: Therefore
Achilles, but what ere know this,
26392489In the extremity of great and little
: 26402490Valour and pride excell them
selues in
Hector 26412491The one almo
st as in
finite as all,
26422492The other blanke as nothing, way him well
: 26432493And that which lookes like pride is curte
sie,
26442494This
Aiax is halfe made of
Hectors bloud,
26452495In loue whereof, halfe H
ector staies at home,
26462496Halfe heart, halfe hand, halfe H
ector comes to
seeke
: 26472497This blended knight halfe Troyan, and halfe Greeke.
26482498Achil. A maiden battell then, Oh I perceiue you.
26492499Aga. Here is
sir
Diomed? go gentle knight,
26502500Stand by our
Aiax. As you and Lord
Eneas 26512501Con
sent vpon the order of their
fight,
26522502So be it, either to the vttermo
st,
26532503Or els a breath, the combatants being kin,
26542504Halfe
stints their
strife, before their
strokes begin.
26562505V
lisses: what Troyan is that
same that lookes
so heauy
? 26572506Vlis. The yonge
st sonne of
Priam, a true knight,
26592507Not yet mature, yet matchle
sse
firme of word,
26602508Speaking deeds, and deedle
sse in his tongue,
26612509Not
soone prouok't nor beeing prouok't
soone calm'd,
26622510His heart and hand both open and both free.
I2 For
The history
26632511For what he has he giues, what thinkes he
shewes,
26642512Yet giues hee not till iudgement guide his bounty,
26652513Nor digni
fies an impare thought with breath;
26662514Manly as
Hector, but more dangerous,
26672515For
Hector in his blaze of wrath
sub
scribes
26682516To tender obie
cts, but he in heate of a
ction,
26692517Is more vindicatiue then iealous loue.
26702518They call him T
roylus, and on him ere
ct,
26712519A
second hope as fairely built as
Hector: 26722520Thus
saies
AEneas one that knowes the youth,
26732521Euen to his ynches
: and with priuate
soule
26742522Did in great Illion thus tran
slate him to me.
Alarum. 26762524Nest. Now
Aiax hould thine owne.
26772525Troy. Hector thou
sleep'
st awake thee.
26782526Aga. His blowes are well di
spo'd, there
Aiax.
trumpets cease 26802528AEne. Princes enough
so plea
se you.
26812529Aiax. I am not warme yet, let vs
fight againe.
26842532Thou art great Lord my fathers
sisters Sonne,
26852533A couzen german to great
Priams seede,
26862534The obligation of our bloud forbids,
26872535A gory emulation twixt vs twaine:
26882536Were thy commixtion Greeke and Troyan
so,
26892537That thou could
st say this hand is Grecian all:
26902538And this is Troyan, the
sinnewes of this legge
26912539All Greeke, and this all Troy
: my mothers bloud,
26922540Runnes on the dexter cheeke, and this
sini
ster
26932541Bounds in my fathers. By
Ioue multipotent
26942542Thou
should
st not beare from mee a Greeki
sh member,
26952543Wherein my
sword had not impre
ssure made.
26972545That any day thou borrowd'
st from thy mother,
26982546My
sacred Aunt,
should by my mortal
sword,
26992547Be drained. Let me embrace thee
Aiax: 27002548By him that thunders thou ha
st lu
sty armes,
Hector
of Troylus and Cresseida.
27012549Hector would haue them fall vpon him thus.
27042552Thou art to gentle, and too free a man,
27052553I came to kill thee cozen, and beare hence,
27062554A great addition earned in thy death.
27072555Hect. Not
Neoptolymus so mirable,
27082556On who
se bright cre
st, fame with her lowd
st (O yes)
27092557Cries, this is he, could promi
se to him
selfe,
27102558A thought of added honor, torne from
Hector. 27112559AEne. There is expe
ctance heere from both the
sides,
27142562The i
ssue is embracement,
Aiax farewell.
27152563Aiax. If I might in entreaties
finde
succe
sse,
27162564As
seld I haue the chance, I would de
sire,
27172565My famous co
sin to our Grecian tents.
27182566Diom. Tis
Agamemnons wi
sh, and great
Achilles 27192567Doth long to
see vnarm'd the valiant
Hector. 27202568Hect. AEneas call my brother T
roylus to me.
27212569And
signi
fie this louing enterview
27222570To the expe
ctors of our Troyan part,
27232571De
sire them home. Giue me thy hand my Cozen.
27242572I will go eate with thee, and
see your Knights.
27262573Aiax. Great
Agamemnon comes to mecte vs heere.
27272574Hect. The worthie
st of them, tell me name by name:
27282575But for
Achilles my owne
searching eyes,
27292576Shall
finde him by his large and portly
size.
27302577Agam. Worthy all armes, as welcome as to one,
27312578That would be rid of
such an enemy.
27382579From heart of very heart, great
Hector welcome.
27392580Hect. I thanke thee mo
st imperious
Agamemnon.
27402581Agam. My well-fam'd Lord of Troy, no le
sse to you.
27412582Mene. Let me con
firme my princely brothers greeting
: 27422583You brace of warlike brothers
: welcome hether.
27452586Hect. O you my Lord, by
Mars his gauntlet thankes,
I3 (Mock
The history
27462587(Mock not thy a
ffe
ct, the vntraded earth)
27472588Your
quandom wife
sweares
still by
Venus gloue,
27482589Shees well, but bad me not commend her to you.
27492590Men. Name her not now
sir,
shee's a deadly theame.
27512592Nest. I haue thou gallant Troyan
seene thee oft,
27522593Laboring for de
stiny, make cruell way,
27532594Through rankes of Greeki
sh youth, and I haue
seene thee
27542595As hot as
Perseus, spurre thy Phrigian
steed,
27552596De
spi
sing many forfaits and
subduments,
27562597When thou ha
st hung th'aduanced
sword ith'ayre,
27572598Not letting it decline on the declined,
27582599That I haue
said to
some my
standers by,
27592600Loe
Iupiter is yonder dealing life.
27602601And I haue
seene thee pau
se, and take thy breath,
27612602When that a ring of Greekes haue
shrupd thee in,
27622603Like an Olympian wra
stling. This haue I
seene,
27632604But this thy countenance
still lockt in
steele,
27642605I neuer
saw till now: I knew thy grand-
sire,
27652606And once fought with him, he was a
soldier good,
27662607But by great
Mars the Captaine of vs all,
27672608Neuer like thee: O let an old man embrace thee,
27682609And worthy warriour welcome to our tents.
27702611Hect. Let me embrace thee good old Chronicle,
27712612That ha
st so long walkt hand in hand with time,
27722613Mo
st reuerend
Nestor, I am glad to cla
spe thee.
27732614Nest. I would my armes could match thee in contention.
27762616Nest. Ha
? by this white beard Ide
fight with thee to mor
-(row.
27772617Well, welcome, welcome, I haue
seene the time.
27782618Vlis. I wonder now how yonder Citty
stands,
27792619When we haue here her ba
se and piller by vs?
27802620Hect. I know your fauour lord
Vlisses well,
27812621Ah
sir, there's many a Greeke and Troyan dead,
27822622Since
fir
st I
saw your
selfe and
Diomed, 27832623In Illion on your Greeki
sh emba
ssie.
27842624Vlis. Sir I foretold you then what would en
sue,
My
of Troylus and Cresseida.
27852625My prophecie is but halfe his iourney yet,
27862626For yonder walls that pertly front your towne,
27872627Yon towers, who
se wanton tops do bu
sse the clouds,
27902630There they
stand yet, and mode
stly I thinke,
27912631The fall of euery Phrigian
stone will co
st,
27922632A drop of Grecian bloud: the end crownes all,
27932633And that old common arbitrator Time, will one day end it.
27962635Mo
st gentle and mo
st valiant
Hector, welcome:
27972636After the Generall, I be
seech you next
27982637To fea
st with me, and
see me at my tent.
27992638Achil. I
shall fore
stall thee lord V
lisses thou
: 28002639Now
Hector I haue fed mine eyes on thee,
28012640I haue with exa
ct view peru
sde thee H
ector, & quoted ioynt(by ioint.
28032641Hect. Is this
Achilles? Achil. I am
Achilles.
28052642Hect. Stand faire I pray thee, let me looke on thee,
28082645Achil. Thou art too briefe, I will the
second time,
28092646As I would buie thee, view thee lim by lim,
28102647Hect. O like a booke of
sport thou'lt read me ore:
28112648But ther's more in me then thou vnder
stand
st,
28122649Why doo
st thou
so oppre
sse me with thine eye.
28132650Achil. Tell me you heauens, in which part of his body
28142651Shall I de
stroy him: whether there, or there, or there,
28152652That I may giue the locall wound a name,
28162653And make di
stin
ct the very breach, whereout
28172654H
ectors great
spirit
flew: an
swer me heauens.
28182655Hect. It would di
scredit the ble
st gods, proud man,
28192656To an
swer
such a que
stion
: stand againe,
28202657Think
st thou to catch my life
so plea
santly,
28212658As to prenominate in nice conie
cture,
28242661Hect. Wert thou an Oracle to tell me
so,
28252662Ide not beleeue thee. Hence-forth gard thee well,
For
The history
28262663For Ile not kill thee there, nor there, nor there,
28272664But by the forge that
stichied
Mars his helme.
28282665Ile kill thee euerywhere, yea ore and ore.
28292666You wi
se
st Grecians, pardon me this brag,
28302667His in
solence drawes folly from my lips,
28312668But ile endeuour deeds to match the
se words,
28342671And you
Achilles, let the
se threats alone,
28352672Till accident or purpo
se bring you too't,
28362673You may haue euery day enough of
Hector, 28372674If you haue
stomack. The generall
state I feare,
28382675Can
scarce entreate you to be odde with him.
28392676Hect.I pray you let vs
see you in the
field,
28402677We haue had pelting warres
since you refu
sd, the Grecians(cau
se.
28422678Achil. Doo
st thou entreate me
Hector?
28432679Tomorow do I meet thee fell as death
:tonight all friends.
28462681Agam. Fir
st all you Peeres of Greece, go to my tent,
28472682There in the full conuiue we: afterwards
28482683As
Hectors lei
sure, and your bounties
shall
28492684Concurre together,
seuerally entreate him
28502685To ta
ste your bounties, let the trumpets blowe,
28512686That this great
souldier may his welcome know.
Exeunt. 28522687Troy. My Lord
Ulisses, tell me I be
seech you,
28532688In what place of the
field doth
Calcas keepe.
28542689Ulis. At
Menelaus tent, mo
st princely T
roylus:
28552690There
Diomed doth fea
st with him to night,
28562691Who neither lookes vpon the heauen nor earth,
28572692But giues all gaze, and bent of amorous view,
28592694Troyl. Shall I
sweete Lord be bound to you
so much,
28602695After we part from
Agamemnons tent,
28632698But gentle tell me of what honor was
28642699This
Cressida in Troy
? had
she no louer there
Troyl.
of Troylus and Cresseida.
28662701Tro. O
sir to
such as bo
sting
shew their skarres,
28672702A mocke is due; will you walke on my Lord,
28682703Shee was beloued my Lord,
she is, and doth,
28692704But
still
sweet loue is food for fortunes tooth.
Exeunt. 28712706Ach. Ile heate his blood with greeki
sh wine to night,
28722707Which with my Cemitar ile cool to morrow,
28732708Patroclus let vs fea
st him to the hight
28742709Pat. Here comes T
hersites.
Enter Thersites. 28752710Ach. How now thou curre of enuy.
28762711Thou cru
sty batch of nature whats the news?
28772712The. Why thou pi
cture of what thou
seeme
st, and Idoll,
28782713Of idiot wor
shippers. heers a letter for thee.
28802715The. Why thou full di
sh of foole from Troy,
28822717The. The Surgeons box or the pacients wound.
28832718Pat. Well
said aduer
sity, and what needs this tricks,
28842719The. Prithee be
silent box I pro
fit not by thy talke,
28852720Thou art
said to be
Achilles male varlot,
28862721Pat. Male varlot you rogue whats that.
28872722The. Why his ma
sculine whore, now the rotten di
sea
ses
28882723of the
south, the guts griping ruptures
: loades a grauell in
28892724the back, lethergies, could pal
sies, rawe eies,
durtrottē liuers,
2889.12725whi
ssing lungs, bladders full of impo
stume. Sciaticaes lime
- 2889.22726kills ith' palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riueled fee
sim
- 28902727ple of the tetter, take and take againe
such prepo
sterous
28922729Pat. Why thou damnable box of enuy thou what meanes
28952732Pat. Why no you ruinous but, you hor
son indi
stingui
sh- 28972734The. No why art thou then exa
sperate, thou idle imma
- 28982735terial
skeine of
sleiue
silke, thou greene
sacenet
flap for a
sore
28992736eye, thou to
slell of a prodigalls pur
se-thou ah how the poore
29002737world is pe
stred with
such water
flies, diminitiues of nature.
K Tat.
The history
29022738Pat. Out gall.
Ther. Finch egge.
29042739Achil. My
sweet
Patroclus I am thwarted quite,
29052740From my great purpo
se into morrowes battell,
29062741Here is a letter from Queene
Hecuba;
29072742A token from her daughter my faire loue
29082743Both taxing me, and gaging me to keepe
: 29092744An oth that I haue
sworne: I wil not breake it,
29102745Fall Greekes, fayle fame, honour or go or
stay,
29112746My
maior vow lies here; this ile obay,
29122747Come, come,
Thersites help to trim my tent
? 29132748This night in banquctting mu
st al be
spent, away
Patroclus. 29152749Ther. With to much bloud, and to little braine, the
se two
29162750may run mad, but if with to much braine and to little bloud
29172751they do ile be a curer of mad-men, her's
Agamemnon, an ho
- 29182752ne
st fellow inough, and one that loues quailes, but hee has
29192753not
so much braine as eare-wax, and the goodly tran
sfor
- 29202754mation of
Iupiter there, his be the Bull, the primitiue
statue,
29212755and oblique memorial of cuck-olds, a thrifty
shooing-horne
29222756in a chaine at his bare legge, to what forme but that hee is,
29232757should wit larded with malice, and malice faced with witte,
29242758turne him to: to an A
sse, were nothing hee is both A
sse and
29262759Oxe, to an Oxe were nothing, her's both Oxe and A
sse, to be