Speaker 1: Act three of the History of Troilus and Cressida by
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Speaker 1: Priam's palace, music sounds within enter Panderas and a servant.
Speaker 2: Friend, you pray you a word? Do you not follow
Speaker 2: the young lord perish?
Speaker 3: I sir, when he goes before me?
Speaker 2: You depend upon him?
Speaker 3: I mien, sir, I do depend upon the Lord.
Speaker 2: You depend upon a noble gentleman. I must needs praise him.
Speaker 3: The Lord be praised. You know me? Do you not, faith, sir,
Speaker 3: super friend.
Speaker 2: Know me better? I am the Lord Panderis.
Speaker 3: I hope I shall know your honor better?
Speaker 2: I do desire it.
Speaker 3: You are in the state of grace, grace, not.
Speaker 2: So friend, honor and lordship of my titles. What music
Speaker 2: is this?
Speaker 3: I do but partly know, sir, It is music, and
Speaker 3: parts know you. The musicians, holy, sir, who play they
Speaker 3: do to the hearer?
Speaker 2: Sir, at whose pleasure?
Speaker 3: Friend at mine? Sir? And there's that love music?
Speaker 2: Command?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 2: Friend?
Speaker 3: Who shall I command? Sir?
Speaker 2: Friend? We understand not one another. I am too courtly,
Speaker 2: and thou art too cunning. At whose request do these
Speaker 2: men play?
Speaker 3: That's true? Indeed, Sir, marry sir, at the request of Paris,
Speaker 3: my lord, who is there in person with him, the
Speaker 3: mortal venus, the heart, blood of beauty, loves invisible soul.
Speaker 2: Oh, my cousin, Cresido.
Speaker 3: No, Sir, Helen, could you not find that out? By
Speaker 3: her attributes?
Speaker 2: It should seem fellow that thou hast not seen the
Speaker 2: lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the
Speaker 2: Prince Proulis. I will make a complimental assault upon him
Speaker 2: for my business seeds.
Speaker 3: Sod in business, there's a stewed phrase.
Speaker 1: Indeed, enter Paris and Helen attended.
Speaker 2: Fair be to you, my lord, and all this fair company,
Speaker 2: fair desires, in all fair measures, fairly guide them, especially
Speaker 2: to you, fair queen. Fair thoughts, be your fair pillow.
Speaker 4: Dear Lord, you are full of fair words.
Speaker 2: You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen, fair Prince. Here
Speaker 2: is good broken music. You have broken it, cousin, and
Speaker 2: by my life you shall make it whole again. You
Speaker 2: shall piece it out with the peace of your performance.
Speaker 4: He is full of harmony.
Speaker 2: Truly, lady. No, oh, sir, rude in sooth, in good sooth,
Speaker 2: very rude, well said my lord, Well you say so
Speaker 2: in fits. I have business to my lord, dear queen,
Speaker 2: my lord, will you vouchsafe me a word?
Speaker 4: Nay, this shall not hatch us out. We'll hear you
Speaker 4: sing certainly.
Speaker 2: Well, sweet queen, you are pleasant with me, but marry thus,
Speaker 2: my lord, my dear lord, and most esteemed friend, your
Speaker 2: brother troylus, my.
Speaker 4: Lord pandor us, Honey.
Speaker 2: Sweet lord, go to, sweet queen, go to commends himself
Speaker 2: most affectionately to you.
Speaker 4: You shall not bob us out of our malady if
Speaker 4: you do our melancholy upon your head.
Speaker 2: Sweet queen, sweet queen, that's a sweet queen. If faith
Speaker 2: and to.
Speaker 4: Make a sweet lady said, is a sour.
Speaker 2: Of fence, nay, that shall not serve your turn? That
Speaker 2: shall it not? In truth law? Nay? I care not
Speaker 2: for such words. No, no, And my lord he desires
Speaker 2: you that if the king call him for supper, you
Speaker 2: will make his excuse. My lord pandorus, What says my
Speaker 2: sweet queen, my very very sweet queen, what exploits in hand?
Speaker 2: Where subsy tonight?
Speaker 4: Nay?
Speaker 2: But my lord, what s my sweet queen. My cousin
Speaker 2: will fall out with you.
Speaker 4: You must not know where he sucks.
Speaker 2: I'll lay my life with my disposer. Cresida, No, no,
Speaker 2: no such matter you are wide come your disposer is sick. Well,
Speaker 2: I'll makes excuse a good my lord? Why should you say, Crescida, No,
Speaker 2: your poor disposes sick? I spy, you spy? What do
Speaker 2: you spy? Come give me an instrument, now, sweet queen.
Speaker 4: Why this is kindly done?
Speaker 2: My niece is horribly in love with the thing you have,
Speaker 2: Sweet queen, she.
Speaker 4: Shall have it, my lord. If it be not my lord.
Speaker 2: Paris, he no shew none of him. They to are twain.
Speaker 4: Falling in after falling out, may make them three.
Speaker 2: Come come, I'll hear no more of this. I'll sing
Speaker 2: you a song.
Speaker 4: Now, aye, aye, pretty now by my truth, Sweet lord,
Speaker 4: thou hast a fine forehead, I you may you may
Speaker 4: let thy song be love. This love will unto us all,
Speaker 4: Oh cupe it cupid cupid.
Speaker 2: Love Aye that it shall live faith I good now
Speaker 2: love love nothing but love in good truth it begins,
Speaker 2: so love love nothing but love still love still more
Speaker 2: for Oh, Love's bow shoots back O the cheft confounds,
Speaker 2: not that it wounds, but tickles still the sore. These
Speaker 2: lovers cry, o ho they die, Yet that which seems
Speaker 2: the wound to kill doth turn o Ho to ha
Speaker 2: ha he So dying love lives still, Oh ho o
Speaker 2: while but ha ha ha oh ho groans out for
Speaker 2: ha ha ha he ho.
Speaker 4: In love, in faith to the very tip often nose.
Speaker 2: He eats nothing but dove's love. And that breeds hot blood,
Speaker 2: and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts, begets
Speaker 2: hot deeds and hot deeds. Is love? Is this the
Speaker 2: generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts, and hot deeds?
Speaker 2: Why they are vipers? Is love? A generation of vipers?
Speaker 2: Sweet Lord, who's a field today?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Hector Diophobus, Helenus and Tinoor and all the gallantry of Troy.
Speaker 2: I would fain have armed today, but my knell would.
Speaker 3: Not have it.
Speaker 2: So how chance my brother Troylus went not?
Speaker 4: He hangs the lip at something, you know, all, Lord
Speaker 4: penderas not. I, honey, sweet Queen, I long to hear
Speaker 4: how they spend today?
Speaker 2: You'll remember your brother's excuse to a hair Fairwell, Sweet Queen,
Speaker 2: commend me to your niece, I will, sweet queen, exit
Speaker 2: sound a retreat there, come from the field. Let us
Speaker 2: to Prime's hall to greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I
Speaker 2: must woo you to help unarm our Hector his stubborn buckles.
Speaker 2: With these your white enchanting fingers touched, shall more obey
Speaker 2: than to the edge of steel or force of Greekish sinews.
Speaker 2: You shall do more than all the island kings. Disarm
Speaker 2: great Hector.
Speaker 4: Twill make us proud to be his servant Paris. Yea,
Speaker 4: what he shall receive of us in duty gives us
Speaker 4: more palm in beauty than we have. Yea overshines ourself.
Speaker 2: Sweet above thought, I love thee exillant.
Speaker 1: Seem too, troy pandreath orchard and a panderas and troyless
Speaker 1: boy meeting.
Speaker 2: How now where is thy master at my cousin cras
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: No, sir, he stays for you to conduct him thither
Speaker 1: enter troylis.
Speaker 2: Oh here he comes?
Speaker 1: How now, how now Sarah walk off? Exit?
Speaker 2: Boy? Have ye seen my cousin no panderas?
Speaker 1: I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon
Speaker 1: the Stygian banks, staying for waftage. Oh be thou, my charon,
Speaker 1: and give me swift transportance to these fields, where I
Speaker 1: may wallow in the lily beds. Propose to the deserver,
Speaker 1: Oh gentle Pander, from Cupid's shoulder, pluck his painted wings
Speaker 1: and fly with me to crest it.
Speaker 2: Walk here in the orchard. I'll bring her straight exit.
Speaker 1: I am kiddy. Expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish
Speaker 1: is so sweet that it enchants myself. What will it
Speaker 1: be when that the watery power tastes indeed loves thrice
Speaker 1: repure nectar death. I fear me sounding destruction or some
Speaker 1: joy too fine, too subtle, potent tuned, too sharp and
Speaker 1: sweetness for the capacity of my ruder powers. I fear
Speaker 1: it much, and I do fear besides that I shall
Speaker 1: lose distinction in my joys. There's doth a battle when
Speaker 1: they charge on heaps the enemy flying re enter Panderas.
Speaker 2: She's making her ready, she will come straight. You must
Speaker 2: be witty. Now she does so blush and fetches her
Speaker 2: winds so short as if she were afraid with her sprite.
Speaker 2: I fetch her. It is the prettiest villain. She fetches
Speaker 2: her breath as short as a new dense sparrow.
Speaker 1: Exit Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom. My
Speaker 1: heart beat thicker than a feverish pulse, and all my
Speaker 1: powers do their bestowing loose like vassalage, and unawares encountering
Speaker 1: the eye of majesty. Re enter panderis with Cressida.
Speaker 2: Come, come, what needs you? Blush? Shame's a baby here
Speaker 2: she is. Now swear the oath now to her that
Speaker 2: you have sworn to me. What are you gone again?
Speaker 2: You must be watched here, you be made, dame. Must
Speaker 2: you come your ways? Come your ways, and you draw backward?
Speaker 2: We'll put you in the fills. Why do you not
Speaker 2: speak to her? Come draw this curtain and let's see
Speaker 2: your picture alas the day. How loath you are to
Speaker 2: offend the daylight and to a dark you'd grow sooner?
Speaker 2: So so rap on and kiss the mystress. How now
Speaker 2: you've seen fee farm build their carpenter the airy sweet Nay,
Speaker 2: you shall fight your hearts out there. I part you
Speaker 2: the falcon as the tetle for all the ducks of
Speaker 2: the river go to go too.
Speaker 5: You have bereft me of all words, lady, hm words,
Speaker 5: pay no debts, give her deeds, But she'll bereave you
Speaker 5: as the deeds too, if she call your activity in question?
Speaker 2: What billing? Again? He is in wakness, whereof the parties
Speaker 2: interchangeably Come in, Come in, I'll go get a fire exit.
Speaker 4: Will you walk in?
Speaker 2: My lord?
Speaker 1: Oh cress it? How often have I wished me thus.
Speaker 4: Wished my lord? To gods grant?
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, what should they grant? What makes this
Speaker 1: pretty abruption? What too curious? Drag aspires, my sweet lady
Speaker 1: in the fountain.
Speaker 4: Of our love, more drags than water. If my fears
Speaker 4: have eyes, fears.
Speaker 1: Make devils of cherubins. They never see.
Speaker 4: Truly blind fear that seeing reason leads finds safer footing
Speaker 4: than blind reasons. Stumbling without fear, to fear the worst
Speaker 4: often cures the worst.
Speaker 1: Let my lady apprehend no fear, and all Cupid's pageant.
Speaker 1: There is presented no monster.
Speaker 4: Nor nothing monstrous, neither nothing.
Speaker 1: But our undertakings. When we vow to weep seas, live
Speaker 1: in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, thinking it harder for
Speaker 1: our mistress to devise and position enough than for us
Speaker 1: to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the monstrosity in
Speaker 1: love lady, that the w is infinite and the execution confined,
Speaker 1: that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave
Speaker 1: to limit.
Speaker 4: Tastes say, all lovers wear more performance than they are able,
Speaker 4: and yet reserve an ability that they never perform, vowing
Speaker 4: more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than
Speaker 4: the tense part of one. They that have the voice
Speaker 4: of lions and the act of hairs, are they not monsters?
Speaker 1: Are they such? Such?
Speaker 3: Are not?
Speaker 1: We praise us as we are tasted, Allow us as
Speaker 1: we prove. Our heads shall go bare till merit crown it.
Speaker 1: No perfection in reversion shall have a praise in present.
Speaker 1: We will not name dessert before his birth, and being born,
Speaker 1: his addition shall be humble. Few words to fair faith
Speaker 1: tryless shall be such to cress it as what envy
Speaker 1: can say worst shall be a mark for his truth,
Speaker 1: and what truth can speak toust not truer than chiless.
Speaker 2: Will you walk in, my lord re enter panderas? What blushing?
Speaker 2: Still have you not done? Talking?
Speaker 4: Yet?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: Uncle, what folly I commit? I dedicate to you?
Speaker 2: I beg you for that, if my Lord get a
Speaker 2: boy of you, you'll give him me be true to
Speaker 2: my lord, if he flinch, chide me for it.
Speaker 1: You know now your hostages, your uncle's word and my
Speaker 1: firm faith.
Speaker 2: Nay, I'll keep my word for her too, our kindred.
Speaker 2: Though they be long here they are would they are
Speaker 2: constant being one, they are birds. I can tell you
Speaker 2: they'll stick where they are thrown.
Speaker 4: Boldness comes to me now and brings me heart. Prince Troilus,
Speaker 4: I have loved you night and day for many weary months.
Speaker 1: Why was my crescent then so hard to win, hard.
Speaker 4: To seem one? But I was one, my lord, with
Speaker 4: the first glance that ever. Pardon me, if I confess much,
Speaker 4: you will play the tyrant. I love you now, but
Speaker 4: till now not so much, but I might master it
Speaker 4: in faith. Alle. My thoughts were like unbridled children grown
Speaker 4: too headstrong for their mother. O see we fools? Why
Speaker 4: have I blept? Who shall be true to us? When
Speaker 4: we are so unsecret to ourselves? But though I loved
Speaker 4: you well, I would you not? And yet good faith,
Speaker 4: I wished myself a man or, that we women had
Speaker 4: men's privilege of speaking first. How sweet bid me hold
Speaker 4: my tongue, for in this rapture I shall surely speak
Speaker 4: the thing I shall repent. See see your silence, cunning
Speaker 4: in dumbness from my weakness draws my very soul of counsel.
Speaker 4: Stop my mouth.
Speaker 1: And shall albeit sweet music issues thence.
Speaker 4: Pitchy if faith, my Lord, I do beseech you pardon
Speaker 4: me twas not my purpose does to beg a kiss?
Speaker 4: I am ashamed? Oh heavens, what have I done for
Speaker 4: this time? Will I take my leave? My lord?
Speaker 1: You leave, sweet crested leave, and you take leave till
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4: Pray you content? You?
Speaker 1: What of fancy lady?
Speaker 4: Sir? Mine own company?
Speaker 1: You cannot shun yourself?
Speaker 4: Let me go and try. I have a kind of
Speaker 4: self resides with you, but an unkind self that itself
Speaker 4: will leave to be another fool. I would be gone.
Speaker 4: Where is my wit? I know not what I speak?
Speaker 1: Well know they what they speak? That speaks so wisely?
Speaker 4: Perchance, my lord, I show more craft and love and
Speaker 4: fell so roundly to a large confession to anger for
Speaker 4: your thoughts. But you are wise, or else you love not?
Speaker 4: For to be wise and love exceeds man's might, that
Speaker 4: dwells with God's above.
Speaker 1: That I thought it could be in a woman, as
Speaker 1: if it can, I will presume in you to feed
Speaker 1: for eye her lamp and flames of love, to keep
Speaker 1: a constancy in plight and youth outliving beauties outward with
Speaker 1: a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays. But
Speaker 1: that persuasion could but thus convince me that my integrity
Speaker 1: and truth to you might be affronted with the match
Speaker 1: and weight of such a winnowed purity and love. How
Speaker 1: were I then uplifted? But alas I am as true
Speaker 1: as truth, simplicity and simpler than the infancy of truth,
Speaker 1: in that a'll war with you, a virtuous fight, when
Speaker 1: right with the right wars. Who shall be most right?
Speaker 1: True swains and love shall in the world to come
Speaker 1: approve their truth by troylists, when their rhymes full the
Speaker 1: protest of oath and big compare one simile's truth, tired
Speaker 1: with iteration, as true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
Speaker 1: as sun today, as turtle to her mate, as iron
Speaker 1: to adamant, as earth to the center. Yet after all
Speaker 1: comparisons of truth, as truth's authentic author, to be cited
Speaker 1: as true as troyalists shall crown up the verse and
Speaker 1: sanctify the numbers.
Speaker 4: Prophet, may you be if I be false, or swerve
Speaker 4: a here from truth, when time is old and forgot itself,
Speaker 4: when water drops have worn the stones of Troy, and
Speaker 4: blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states, character as
Speaker 4: are grated to dusty nothing Yet, let memory from false
Speaker 4: to false among false maids in love upbraid my falsehood.
Speaker 4: When they have said as false as air as water,
Speaker 4: wind or sandy earth, as fox to lamb, or wolf
Speaker 4: to have a scalf part to the hind, or step
Speaker 4: dame to her son. Yea, let them say to stick
Speaker 4: the heart of falsehood as false as crescid, Go.
Speaker 2: Do a bargain, maid, seal it, seal it. I'll be
Speaker 2: the witness here. I hold your hand. Hear my cousins.
Speaker 2: If ever you prove false one to another, since I
Speaker 2: have taken such pains to bring you together, Let all
Speaker 2: pitiful goers between be called to the world's end after
Speaker 2: my name, call them all panders. Let all constant men
Speaker 2: be trialises, all false women cresses, and all brokers between panders.
Speaker 2: Say amen, amen, pay men. Whereupon I will show you
Speaker 2: a chamber and a bed, which bed because it shall
Speaker 2: not speak of your pretty encounters pre syed death oh.
Speaker 1: Way, exillons, Troilus and Cresset.
Speaker 2: And Cupid grant all tangue tied maidens here bed chamber
Speaker 2: panda to provide this gear.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene three. The Greek camp flourish enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax, Menelaeus,
Speaker 1: and Calcus. Now Prince for the service I have done
Speaker 1: the advantage of the time, prompts me aloud to call
Speaker 1: for recompense. Appeared to your mind that through the sight
Speaker 1: I bear in things to come, I have abandoned stroy
Speaker 1: left my possession, incurred a traitor's name, exposed myself from
Speaker 1: certain and possessed conveniences to doubtful fortunes sequestering from here
Speaker 1: all that time acquaintance, custom and condition may tame and
Speaker 1: most familiar to my nature. And here to you your service,
Speaker 1: and become as new into the world strange, unacquainted. He
Speaker 1: to beseech you, as in way of taste, to give
Speaker 1: me now a little benefit out of those many registered
Speaker 1: in promise, which you say live to come in my behalf.
Speaker 3: What Wouldst Thou of us Troyan make demand you.
Speaker 1: Have a Troyan prisoner called and Tina yesterday talk Troy
Speaker 1: holdes him varied.
Speaker 2: Dear oft have you often?
Speaker 1: Have you thanks therefore desired my crestt in right great
Speaker 1: exchange whom Troy hath still denied.
Speaker 3: But this and Tina, I.
Speaker 1: Know, is such a rest in their affairs that their
Speaker 1: negotiations all must slack. Wanting his manage, they will almost
Speaker 1: give us the Prince of blood, a son of Priam.
Speaker 1: In change of him. Let him be sent great princes,
Speaker 1: and he shall buy my daughter, and her presence shall
Speaker 1: quite strike off all service I have done in most
Speaker 1: accepted pain.
Speaker 3: Let die our Medes, bear him and bring us cressed
Speaker 3: Hither Calcus shall have what he bequests of us. Good
Speaker 3: dial mead furnish you fairly for this interchange withal bring word.
Speaker 3: If Hector will tomorrow be answered in his challenge. Ajax
Speaker 3: is ready. This shall I undertake, And tis a burden
Speaker 3: which I am proud to bear.
Speaker 1: Excellent Diomedes and Calcus Achilles in Patroclus stand in the tent.
Speaker 1: Achilles stands in the entrance of his tent, pleaded. Our
Speaker 1: general pass strangely by him as if he were forgot,
Speaker 1: And princes all lay negligent and loose regard upon him.
Speaker 1: I will come last. Tis like you'll question me why
Speaker 1: such and plos of ours are bent? Why turned on him?
Speaker 1: If so, I have derision medicinable to use between your
Speaker 1: strangeness and his pride, which his own will shall have
Speaker 1: desired a drink it may do good. Pride have no
Speaker 1: other glass to show itself, but pride. The suppones feed arrogance,
Speaker 1: and are the proud man's fees.
Speaker 3: We'll execute your purpose and put on a form of
Speaker 3: strangeness as we pass along, So do each lord, and
Speaker 3: either greet him not or else disdainfully, which shall shake
Speaker 3: him more than if not looked on. I will lead
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 1: What comes the general to speak with me? You know
Speaker 1: my mind? I'll fight no more against Troy?
Speaker 3: What says Achilles? Would he ought with us?
Speaker 2: Would you, my lord, aught with the general?
Speaker 3: No? Nothing, my lord the better.
Speaker 1: Exioned Agamemnon and Nestor Good day, good day?
Speaker 2: How do you? How do you exit?
Speaker 1: What does the coucklets corn me?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Now bacho cluse good morrow?
Speaker 1: Ay jax ah, good morrow?
Speaker 2: I am good next day?
Speaker 1: To exit? What mean these fellows know? They not Achilles?
Speaker 4: They passed by stranger. They were used to bend to
Speaker 4: send as smiles before them to Achilles, to come as
Speaker 4: humbly as they used to creep to holy altars.
Speaker 1: What am I poor of late this certain greatness? What's
Speaker 1: fallen out with fortune must fall out with men too.
Speaker 1: What the declined is he shall as soon read in
Speaker 1: the eyes of others as fear and his own fall.
Speaker 1: For men like butterflies, show not their mealy wings but
Speaker 1: to the summer. And not a man, for being simply
Speaker 1: man had any honor, but honor for these honors that
Speaker 1: are with out him, as plays riches in favor. Prize
Speaker 1: is of accident as oft as merit, which, when they fall,
Speaker 1: as being slippery, standers the love that laaned on them
Speaker 1: is slippery too. Doth one pluck down another and together
Speaker 1: die in the fall? That did not so with me?
Speaker 1: Fortune and I are friends. I do enjoy it ample
Speaker 1: point all that I did possess, save these men's looks.
Speaker 1: Who do me things? Find out something not worth in me?
Speaker 1: Such rich beholding as they have often given. Here is Ulysses.
Speaker 1: I'll interrupt his reading. How now Ulysses now great that
Speaker 1: his son? What are you reading? A strange fellow here
Speaker 1: writes me that a man, how dearly ever parted, how
Speaker 1: much in having or without or in cannot make both
Speaker 1: to have that which he hath, nor feels not what
Speaker 1: he owes, but by reflection, as when as virtues shining
Speaker 1: upon others heed them, and they aretort that heat again
Speaker 1: to the first giver. This is not strange. Jelyses the
Speaker 1: beauty that is borne here in the face. The bear
Speaker 1: knows not, but commends itself to others eyes. Nor doth
Speaker 1: the eye itself, that most pure spirit of sense behold itself,
Speaker 1: not going from itself, but I to I oppose it
Speaker 1: salutes each other with each other's form. For speculation turns
Speaker 1: not to itself till it hath traveled and is mirrored
Speaker 1: there where it may see itself. This is not strange
Speaker 1: at all. I do not strain at the position it
Speaker 1: is familiar, but that the author's drift, who in his
Speaker 1: circumstance expressly proves that no man is the lord of anything,
Speaker 1: though in and of him there be much consisting till
Speaker 1: he communicate his past to others. Nor doth he of
Speaker 1: himself know them for aught, till he behold them formed
Speaker 1: in the applause where they are extended. Who like an
Speaker 1: arch reverberate the voice again, or like a gate of
Speaker 1: steel fronting the sun, receives and renders back his figure
Speaker 1: and its heat. I was much wrapped in this, and
Speaker 1: apprehended here immediately the unknown Ajax. Heavens, what a man
Speaker 1: is there? A very horse that has he knows not
Speaker 1: what nature? What things there are, most abject in regard,
Speaker 1: and dear in use? What things again, most dear in
Speaker 1: the esteem, and poor in worth? Now shall we see
Speaker 1: to morrow an act that very chance to throw upon him?
Speaker 1: Ajax renowned. Oh, heavens, what some end do, what some
Speaker 1: men leave to do? How some men creep in skittish
Speaker 1: fortunes hall, whilst others play the idiots in her eyes.
Speaker 1: How one man and eats into another's pride, while pride
Speaker 1: is fasting. This wantonness to see these Grecian lords, Why
Speaker 1: even already they clapped the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,
Speaker 1: as if his foot were on Brave Hector's breast, and
Speaker 1: Great Troy shrieking. I do believe it, for they passed
Speaker 1: by me as mice as do by beggars. Neither gave
Speaker 1: to me good word, nor.
Speaker 2: Look what.
Speaker 1: Are my deeds forgot time. Hath my lord a wallet
Speaker 1: at his back, wherein he puts arms for oblivion a
Speaker 1: great sized monster ingratitudes. The scraps are good deeds past,
Speaker 1: which are devoured as fast as they are made for God,
Speaker 1: as soon as done perseverance, Dear my Lord, keeps honor bright.
Speaker 1: To have done is to hang quite out of fashion,
Speaker 1: like a rusty male and monumental mock. Take the instant
Speaker 1: away for honor travels in a straight cerin error, where
Speaker 1: one but goes abreast. Keep then the path for emulation.
Speaker 1: Hath a thousand sons at one by one pursue. If
Speaker 1: you give way or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Speaker 1: like to an entered tide, they all rush by and
Speaker 1: leave you hide most or like a gallant horse fallen
Speaker 1: in first rank, lie there for pavement, the abject rear
Speaker 1: run and trampled on. Then what they do in present,
Speaker 1: though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours for
Speaker 1: time is like a fashionable host that slightly shakes his
Speaker 1: parting guests by the hand, and with his arms outstretched
Speaker 1: as he would fly grasps in the comer. The welcome
Speaker 1: ever smiles and farewell. Goes out sighing. Let not virtue
Speaker 1: secret remuneration for the thing it was for beauty, wit,
Speaker 1: high birth, vigor of bone, desert and service, love, friendship,
Speaker 1: charity are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. One
Speaker 1: touch of nature makes the whole world. Kin that all,
Speaker 1: with one consent praise new born gods, though they are
Speaker 1: made and molded of things past, And give to dust
Speaker 1: that is a little guilt, more Lord than guilt o
Speaker 1: dusted the present eye praises the present object. Then marvel
Speaker 1: not thou great and complete man, that all the Greeks
Speaker 1: begin to worship Ajax, Since things in motion sooner catch
Speaker 1: thee eye than what stirs not the cry went once
Speaker 1: on thee and still it might, and yet it may again,
Speaker 1: if thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive and case thy
Speaker 1: reputation in thy tent whose glorious deeds, but in these
Speaker 1: fields of late maid emules, missions amongst the gods themselves,
Speaker 1: and rave great Master faction. Of this my privacy I
Speaker 1: have strong reasons. But gainst your privacy the reasons are
Speaker 1: more potent and heroical. Tis known, Achilles, that you are
Speaker 1: in love with one of Prime's daughters ha known. Is
Speaker 1: that a wonder the providence that in a watchful state
Speaker 1: knows almost every grain of plutus gold finds bottom in
Speaker 1: the uncomprehensive deeps, keeps place with thought, and almost like
Speaker 1: the gods do thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There
Speaker 1: is a mystery with whom relation does never meddle in
Speaker 1: the soul of state, which hath an operation more divine
Speaker 1: than breath or pancaking expression too. All the commerce that
Speaker 1: you have had with Troy as perfectly as ours as yours,
Speaker 1: my lord, and better would it fit Achilles much to
Speaker 1: throw down Hector than Polyxina. But it must grieve young
Speaker 1: peers now at home, when Fame shall in our island
Speaker 1: sound her trump, and all the Greekish girl shall tripping
Speaker 1: sing great Hector's sister. Did Achilles win, but our great
Speaker 1: Ajax bravely be done him? Farewell, my lord. I, as
Speaker 1: your lovers speak, the fool slides o'er the ice that
Speaker 1: you should break.
Speaker 4: Exit To this effect, Achilles, have I immoved you. A
Speaker 4: woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loath than
Speaker 4: an effeminate man in time of action. I stand condemned
Speaker 4: for this, They think, my little stomach to the war,
Speaker 4: and your great love to me restrains you dos, sweet
Speaker 4: rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid shall from your
Speaker 4: neck unloose his amorous fold, and like a dew drop
Speaker 4: from the line, and smain be shook to air?
Speaker 1: Shall Ajax fight with Hector.
Speaker 4: Aye, and perhaps receive much honor by him.
Speaker 1: I see my reputation is at stake, My fame is
Speaker 1: shrewdly gored.
Speaker 4: Oh, then beware those wounds heal. Ill that men do
Speaker 4: give themselves omission to do what is necessary seals the
Speaker 4: commission to a blank of danger, and danger like an
Speaker 4: egg u subtly taints even then when they sit idly
Speaker 4: in the sun.
Speaker 1: Go cough. If I is hither, sweet Beatrouculus, I'll send
Speaker 1: the full Dayjax, and desire him to invite the Troean
Speaker 1: lords after the combat to see us here unarmed. I
Speaker 1: have a woman's longing, an appetite that I am sick
Speaker 1: withal to see great Hector in his weeds of peace,
Speaker 1: to talk with him, and to behold his visage even
Speaker 1: to my full enter societies. A labor saved.
Speaker 3: A wonder what hey, Jax goes up and down the field,
Speaker 3: asking for himself. How so he must fight singly tomorrow
Speaker 3: with Hector, and is so prophetically proud of an heroical
Speaker 3: cudgeling that he raves and saying nothing.
Speaker 2: How can that be?
Speaker 3: Why a stark's up and down like a peacock, a
Speaker 3: strike and a stand ruminates, like an hostess that hath
Speaker 3: no arithmetic, but her break are set down her reckoning
Speaker 3: bites his lip with a politic regard as who should
Speaker 3: say there were wits in his head and two out?
Speaker 3: And so there is. But it lies as coldly in
Speaker 3: him as fire in a flint, which will not show
Speaker 3: without knocking the man's undone forever. For if Hector break
Speaker 3: not his neck of the combat, he'll break himself in vainglory.
Speaker 3: He knows not me, I said, good moral way, Jackson,
Speaker 3: He replies, shank sagamimnon, what think you of this man
Speaker 3: that takes me for the general? He's grown a very landfish, languageless,
Speaker 3: a monster, a plague of opinion. A man may wear
Speaker 3: it on both sides like leather. Jerkin, thou must be.
Speaker 1: My ambassador to him societies?
Speaker 3: Who I why? He'll answer nobody? He professes not answering.
Speaker 3: Speaking is for beggars. He wears his tongue in his arms.
Speaker 3: I will put on his presence. Let Petrarcus make his
Speaker 3: demands to me. You shall see the pageant of Ajax.
Speaker 1: To him the chocols tell him, I humbly desire the
Speaker 1: valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous actor to come
Speaker 1: unarmed to my tent, and to procure a safe conduct
Speaker 1: first person of the magnanimous and most illustrious six or
Speaker 1: seven times honored captain in general the grish Army, Agamemnon.
Speaker 4: Do this, jove, bless great AgeX hmm. I come from
Speaker 4: the worthy Achilles Ah, who most humbly desires you to
Speaker 4: invite hector to his tent m and to procure safe
Speaker 4: conduct from Agamemnon.
Speaker 3: Agamemnon, Hi, my lord Ah, what do you say to it? God?
Speaker 3: By you with all my heart? Your answer, sir, if
Speaker 3: tomorrow will be a fair day, by eleven other clock,
Speaker 3: it will go one way or other, howsoever, he shall
Speaker 3: pay for me. Here he has me.
Speaker 4: Your answer, sir, very.
Speaker 3: Well, with all my heart mine.
Speaker 1: But he is not in this tune?
Speaker 3: Is he now? But out of tune? Thus what music
Speaker 3: will be in him when Hector is knocked out his brains?
Speaker 3: I know not, but I am sure none unless the
Speaker 3: fidor Apollo get his sin used to make catlings on.
Speaker 1: Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.
Speaker 3: Let me bear a never to his horse, for that's
Speaker 3: the more capable creature.
Speaker 1: My mind is troubled like a fountain stirred, and I
Speaker 1: myself see not the bottom of it. Exitoned Achilles and Patropolis,
Speaker 1: where the.
Speaker 3: Fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might
Speaker 3: water an ass at it. I had rather be a
Speaker 3: tick and of sheep than such a valiant ignorance.
Speaker 1: Exit and of Act three