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,
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