WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.480 Act one of the History of Troilus and Cressida by 2 00:00:04.519 --> 00:00:10.279 William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.519 are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:21.519 please visit LibriVox dot org. Scene Troy and the Greek 5 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.920 camp before it prologue. 6 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:30.120 In Troy, there lies the scene from Isles of Greece. 7 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:34.960 The Princess Augulis, their high bloods chafed have to the 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.159 port of Athens, sent their ships, fraught with the ministers 9 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:44.240 and instruments of cruel War sixty and nine that wore 10 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:48.119 their crowd ats regal from the Athenian Bay, put forth 11 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:53.479 towards Phrygia, and their vow is made to ransack Troy, 12 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:59.039 within whose strong immures the ravished helen Menlaeus queen with 13 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:04.560 wanton sleeps. And that's the quarrel. To Tenedos they come, 14 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.000 and the deep drawing barks do their disgorge, their war 15 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:14.079 like frottage. Now on darden plains, the fresh and yet 16 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:19.120 unbruised Greeks to pitch their brave pavilions Priam six gated 17 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:25.840 city darded and Timbria ilias Catus troyon and antenarides with 18 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:31.519 massy staples and corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, stir up the 19 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:37.920 suns of Troy now expectation, tickling skitty spirits on one 20 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.680 and other side troyon and Greek sets on all hazard, 21 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.359 And hither am I come a prolog, arm'd, but not 22 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.480 in confidence of authour's pen or actor's voice, but suited 23 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:55.480 in like conditions as our argument to tell you, fair beholders, 24 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.840 that our play leaps o'er the vaunted firstlings of these broils, 25 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.079 beginning in the middle, starting thence away to what may 26 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.759 be digested in a play like or find fault, do 27 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:13.599 as your pleasures are now good or bad? Tis but 28 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:15.159 the chance of war. 29 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:22.759 Act one seen one Troy before Priam's Palace, and to 30 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:30.240 troyless armed and panderas, call here my varlet i'll unarm again? 31 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:33.639 Why should I war without the walls of Troy that 32 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.280 find such cruel battle here within each Troy and that 33 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:41.960 is master of his heart? Let him de feeld troyless 34 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.000 alas hath none. 35 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.879 Oh, will these gear nay be mended. 36 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.879 The Greeks are strong and skillful to their strength, fierce 37 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.520 to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant. But I 38 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:02.560 am weaker than a woman's tear, than sleep, fonder than ignorance, 39 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.240 less valiant than the virgin in the night, and skillless 40 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.599 as unpracticed infancy. 41 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.599 Well, I have told you enough of this. For my part, 42 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:17.120 I will not meddle, nor make no farther. He that 43 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.719 will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry 44 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:27.280 the grinding. Have I not tarried iy the grinding? But 45 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:33.680 she must tarry the boating. Have I not tear it, aye, 46 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.319 the boating, but you must carry the livening? 47 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:38.560 Still? 48 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:43.199 Have I tear it Hi to the livening. But here's 49 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.919 yet in the word. Hereafter the kneading, the making of 50 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.199 the cake, the heating of the oroden, and the baking. Nay, 51 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.439 you must stay the cooling too, or you may trans 52 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:58.680 burn your lips. 53 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:03.319 Patience herself, what godess ere she be doth lesser Blanchet's 54 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:07.280 sufferance than I do. At Prime's royal table, do I sit, 55 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:12.319 and when fair Crest comes into my thoughts, so traitor 56 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.719 when she comes? When she is thence. 57 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:21.319 She looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw her look 58 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:22.879 or any woman else. 59 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:27.079 I was about to tell THEE when my heart, as 60 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.600 wedged with a sigh, would rive and dwane, lest Hector 61 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.040 or my father should perceive me. I have as when 62 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.600 the sun doth light a storm buried the sigh and 63 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:41.720 wrinkle the smile. But sorrow that is couched and seeming 64 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.600 gladness is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. 65 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.800 And her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's. Well 66 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:57.199 go too. There were no more comparisons between the women. 67 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:02.000 But for my part, she is my kinswoman. I would not, 68 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.240 as they term it, praise her, but I would somebody 69 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.800 had heard her talk yesterday as I did. I will 70 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.319 not depraise your sister Cassandra's wit. 71 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:16.839 But oh, Pandres, I tell THEE, Pandres. When I do 72 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.439 tell THEE, there my hopes I drowned. Reply, not in 73 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.480 how many fathoms deep they lie and drenched. I tell THEE. 74 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:28.560 I am mad, and Cress's love thou answerest. She is 75 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.879 fair poorest in the open ulcer of my heart. Her eyes, 76 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:37.879 her hair, cheek or gate, her voice handlest in thy discourse, 77 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.879 Oh that her hand in whose comparison all whites are 78 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:47.199 incriting their own reproach to soft seizure. The signets down 79 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.600 as hush and spirit of sense, hard as the palm 80 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:55.240 of plowmen. This thou tellst me, as true thou tellst 81 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.199 me when I say I love her, But saying thus 82 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.680 instead of oil and balm, thou layest in every gash 83 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.639 that love hath given me the knife that made it. 84 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:09.240 I speak no more than truth. 85 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.160 Thou dost not speak so much faith. 86 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.959 I'll not middle it. Let it be as she is. 87 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.319 If she be fair, tis the better for her? 88 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:20.360 And she be not. 89 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.160 She has the men's in her own hands. 90 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.680 Case pandras, how now panderas I have. 91 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.240 Had my labor for my travail, ill thought on of her, 92 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.439 and ill thought on of you, gone between and between, 93 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:38.000 But small thanks for my labor? 94 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.399 What art thou angry? Panders? 95 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:43.120 What with me? 96 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:48.759 Because she's kin to me? Therefore she's not so fair 97 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:52.360 as Helen, And she would not kin to me. She 98 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.959 would be as fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. 99 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:57.639 But what care? 100 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:01.720 I I cannot, and you were a black more tis 101 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:05.480 all one to me say I she is not fair. 102 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.279 I do not care whether you do or no she's 103 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.199 a fool to day behind her father let her to 104 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.720 the Greeks, and so I'll tell her the next time 105 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.800 I see her. For my part, I omitdle nor make 106 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:22.000 no more in the matter. 107 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:27.079 Panders not I sweet, Panders. 108 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.959 Pray you speak no more to me. I will leave 109 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.959 all as I found it, and there an. 110 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:41.839 End exit, panders an alarum, peace you ungracious clamors pea 111 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:48.000 through sounds fools on both sides. Helen, must needs be 112 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.199 fair when with your blood you daily painter. Thus I 113 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.800 cannot fight upon this argument. It is too starved a 114 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:02.319 subject for my sword. But panderus, Oh gods, how do 115 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.600 you plague me? I cannot come to Crescent but by Pander. 116 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:10.519 And he's as touchy to be wooed to woo as 117 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:15.040 she is stubborn, chased against our suit. Tell me Apollo 118 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:20.079 for thy Daphnese love, what cress it is, what pander 119 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.959 and what we her bed is in here? There she 120 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:30.399 lies a pearl between our ilium and where she resides. 121 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.919 Let it be called the wild and wandering flood. Herself 122 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:40.440 the merchant and this sailing Pander, our doubtful hope, a 123 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:45.559 convoy and our bark alarum enter Eneus. 124 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.080 How now Prince troyal Us, wherefore not a field. 125 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:57.200 Because not there This woman's answer sorts for woman as 126 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.879 she is to be from thence what news and he 127 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:02.279 is from the field to day. 128 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:04.919 That Paris is who turned. 129 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:08.879 Home and hurt by Whomneus. 130 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.320 Troilus, by Menilaeus. 131 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:18.159 Let Paris bleed tis but a scar to scorn. Paris 132 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.559 is gored with Menilaeus horn alarum. 133 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.879 Hark What good sport is out of town today? 134 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:31.200 Better at home if what I might were may But 135 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.039 to the sport abroad? Are you bound thither? 136 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:38.440 In all swift haste, come go e. 137 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:46.879 Then together Exeant seen too troy A Street, and her 138 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.799 Crescada and her man Alexander. 139 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:55.639 Who wordos went by Queen Hecuba and Helen, and whither 140 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:58.480 Godey up to the eastern tower. 141 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.200 Whose height commands as subjec all the veil to see 142 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.799 the battle. Hector, whose patience is as a virtue fixed today, 143 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:10.200 was moved he Chid Andromachy and struck his armorer, and 144 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.720 like as there were husbandry and war before the sun rose, 145 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:16.519 he was harnessed light and to the field goes he 146 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.519 where every flower did as a prophet weep what it 147 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:21.159 foresaw in Hector's wrath? 148 00:10:21.879 --> 00:10:23.600 What was his cause of anger? 149 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.320 The noise goes this, There is among the Greeks a 150 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.480 lord of Troy and blood, nephew to Hector. They call 151 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.440 him Ajax good, And what of him? They say? He 152 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.480 is a very man per se and stands alone. 153 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:42.919 So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or 154 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:43.960 hath no legs. 155 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:49.200 This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions. 156 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.639 He is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, 157 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.480 slow as the elephant, A man into whom nature hath 158 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.240 so crowded humors that his valor is crushed into folly, 159 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.399 his folly sauced with discretion. There is no man hath 160 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:07.080 a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of, nor 161 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.000 any man attained, but he has some stain of it. 162 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:13.360 He is melancholy without cause, and marry against the hair. 163 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.159 He hath the joints of everything, but everything so out 164 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:20.879 of joint that he is a gouty briarius, many hands 165 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:25.480 and no use of purblind argus, all eyes and no sight. 166 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:30.360 But how should this man that makes me smile make 167 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:31.360 Hector angry? 168 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.759 They say he yesterday coughed Hector in the battle and 169 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.039 struck him down. That distain and shame whereof hath ever 170 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:41.519 since kept Hector fasting and waking? 171 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.559 And to panderas who comes here? 172 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.240 Madam? Your uncle panders? 173 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:52.039 Hector is a gallant man as. 174 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.480 May be in the world. Lady? 175 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:55.600 What's that? What's that? 176 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.120 Good morrow? Uncle? Panders? 177 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:04.360 Good morrow? Gustin dressed? Who do you talk of? Good morrow? Alexander? 178 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:10.039 How do you, cousin? When were you at Ilium this morning? 179 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:10.519 Uncle? 180 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.200 What were you talking of? Where I came? Was Hector 181 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.840 armed and gone? Ere you came to Lium? Helen was 182 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:18.240 not up? 183 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:18.600 Was she? 184 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.159 Hector was gone? But Helen was not up? Y'? 185 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.279 So Hector was stirring early that we were. 186 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.200 Talking of, and of his anger? 187 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.120 Was he angry? 188 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:33.240 So he says? Here? 189 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:38.159 True he was? So I know the cause too. He'll 190 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.559 lay about him today. I can tell them that, And 191 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.600 this Troyless will not come far behind him. Let them 192 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:49.039 take heed of Troyless. I can tell them that too. 193 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.000 What is he angry too? 194 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.919 Who triyllis trialis? Is the better man of the two? 195 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:04.960 Oh jupitter tes no comparison, what not between Troylish and Hector. 196 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.919 Do you know a man if you see him, I, 197 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:12.639 if I ever saw him before and knew him? 198 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:17.080 Well, I say Troylis is troyless. 199 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.720 Then you say as I say, For I am sure 200 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:22.480 he is not Hector. 201 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:28.799 No, nor Hector is not troyless in some degree disjust 202 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:29.799 to each of them. 203 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.360 He is himself. 204 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:38.120 Himself anless poor Troylis. I would he were so he 205 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:43.039 is condition I had gone barefoot to India. He is 206 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:49.919 not Hector himself, No, he thought himself, would there were himself? 207 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:50.799 Well? 208 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:57.759 The gods are above time must friend all end well Triylis, well, 209 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.000 I would my heart were in her body. No, Hector 210 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.720 is not a better man than Troilers. Excuse me, he 211 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:07.840 is elder. 212 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:10.480 Pardon me, pardon me. 213 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:14.080 The others not come to it. You shall tell me 214 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:18.559 another tale when the others come to it. Hector shall 215 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:20.519 not have his witness. 216 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.279 Yere, he shall not need it. If he have his own. 217 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:29.879 No, his qualities, no matter nor his beauty. 218 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.840 Twould not become him his own spatter. 219 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:39.919 You have no judgment, niece. Helen herself swore the other 220 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.919 day that Troilers for a brown favor for so teas, 221 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:49.840 I must confess not brown, neither no, but brown faith 222 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.879 to say truth brown and not brown. 223 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:56.759 To say the truth true and not true. 224 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.879 She praached his complexion about Paris. 225 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:08.000 Why Paris has color enough, So he has, then Troyles 226 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:12.320 should have too much. If she praised him above, his 227 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:17.159 complexion is higher than his he having color enough, and 228 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.879 the other higher is too flaming a praise for a 229 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:25.960 good complexion I had a sleeve. Helen's golden tongue had 230 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:28.559 commended Troylus for a copper nose. 231 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.720 I swear to you, I think Hell loves him better 232 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:34.759 than Peri's humph. 233 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:36.960 Then she is a merry Greek. 234 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.399 Indeed, nay, I'm sure she does. She came to him 235 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.519 the other day into the compass window, and you know 236 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:47.759 he has not past three or four hairs on his chin. 237 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:53.679 Indeed, a Teuchester's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein 238 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:54.679 to a total. 239 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.879 Like he's very young, and yet will he within three 240 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.360 pounds lifts much as his brother Hector? 241 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.639 Is he so young a man and so old a 242 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:06.240 lift up? 243 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.480 But to prove to you that Heley loves him, she 244 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:14.080 came and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin. 245 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.320 Do you know have mercy? How came it cloven? 246 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:23.360 Well? You know she dimpled. I think he smiling becomes 247 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:26.039 him better than any man in Phrygia. 248 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:31.639 Oh he smiles valiantly, does he not? 249 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:33.080 Oh? 250 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:35.879 Yes, and we're a cloud in autumn. 251 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:39.080 I go to them, but to prove to you that 252 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:40.279 Helen loves Troyless. 253 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:44.120 Troyless will stand to the proof if you'll prove it. 254 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:50.000 So troiles. Why he esteems her no more than I 255 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.399 esteem an addle egg. 256 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:56.039 If you love an addle egg as well as you 257 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.879 love an idle head, you would eat chickens and a shell. 258 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.679 I cannot choose but laugh to think how she tickled 259 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:08.519 his chin. Indeed, she has a marvelous white hand. I 260 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:15.079 must needs confess without the wreck. And she takes upon 261 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.839 her to spy a white hair on his chin. 262 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:23.839 Her last poor chin. Many award is richer. 263 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:29.400 But they were such laughing queen Hecuba laughed that her 264 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:36.240 eyes ran o'er with millstones, and Cassandra laughed, but there 265 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:36.599 was a. 266 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.000 More temperate fire under the pot of her eyes. Did 267 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:41.599 her eyes run over too? 268 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:48.960 And Hector laughed at what was all this? Laughing Mary 269 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:54.440 at the white hair, that heilen spy, don't troil his chin, And. 270 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:57.359 Had been a green hair, I should have laughed too. 271 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.880 They laughed, not so much at the hair as at 272 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.359 his pretty answer. 273 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.640 What was his answer? 274 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.400 Quoth she, here's but two and fifty hairs on your chin, 275 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.519 and one of them is white. 276 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.759 This is her question, that's true. 277 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.319 Make no question of that two and fifty hairs, quoth he, 278 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:28.480 and one white. That white hair is my father, and 279 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:33.960 all the rest are his sons. Jupiter quotes she, which 280 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:37.880 of these hairs is Paris my husband? The thalked one? 281 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.160 Quoth he plucked it out and gave it him. But 282 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:47.160 there was such laughing, and Heaven so blushed, and Paris 283 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:51.680 so shaft, and all the rest so laughed that it passed. 284 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:55.559 So let it now, for it has been a great 285 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:56.480 while going by. 286 00:18:57.519 --> 00:19:01.319 Well, cousin, I told you a thing, Yes today, think 287 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:06.559 on't so I do. I'll be sworten. Tis true, he 288 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.400 will weep you, And twere a man born in April. 289 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.839 And I'll spring up in his tears, and to a 290 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.000 nettle against me. 291 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:18.680 Sound a retreat, hark. 292 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.079 They are coming from the field. Shall we stand up 293 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.400 here and see them as they pass towards Ilium. Good niece, do, 294 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:30.200 sweet niece, Cressida. 295 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:31.279 At your pleasure. 296 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:36.200 Here here, here's an excellent place. Here we may see 297 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.559 most bravely. I'll tell you them all by their names 298 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.759 as they pass by. But Mark troylis above the rest. 299 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.119 Eneas passes speak not so loud. 300 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:56.160 Ah, that's a Eneus. He is not that a brave man. 301 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.519 He's one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you. 302 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:02.839 But Mark Troylis, you shall see Anon. 303 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:04.680 And Tina passes. 304 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:06.119 Who's that? 305 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.880 That's and Tina? He has a shrewd wit, I can 306 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.319 tell you. And he's a man good enough. He's one 307 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:18.880 of the soundest judgments in Troy, whosoever, and a proper 308 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:24.440 man of person. When comes Troyless, I'll show you Troyless Anon. 309 00:20:24.720 --> 00:20:27.680 If he sees me, you shall see him NodD at me. 310 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:32.960 Will he give you the nod? You shall see? If 311 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:35.160 he do, the rich shall have more. 312 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:39.200 Hector passes, that's Hector. 313 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:45.559 That that look you that there's a fellow, Go thy way, Hector. 314 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:51.000 There's a brave man, niece, Oh brave Hector. Look how 315 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.880 he looks. There's a countenance. He's not a brave man. 316 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.759 Oh, a brave man is. 317 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.720 An It does a man's heart good. Look you what 318 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.079 hacks are on his helmet? Look you, Yonder, do you see? 319 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:13.200 Look you there? There's no jesting, there's laying on ticked off. 320 00:21:13.279 --> 00:21:14.400 Who will as they say? 321 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:19.039 There be hacks be those with swords? 322 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:24.119 Swords anything he cares not and the devil come to him. 323 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:29.759 It's all one by God's lid. It does one's heart good. 324 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:37.680 Yonder comes Paris, Yonder comes, Paris, Paris passes. Looky, Yonder nas, 325 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:39.720 it's not a gallant man too? 326 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:40.240 Is not? 327 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:42.599 Why this is brave? 328 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:42.960 Now? 329 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:47.319 Who said he came hurt home today he's not hurt? 330 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:50.640 Why this will do Helen's heart good? 331 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:51.279 Now? Hah? 332 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.960 Would I could see triyless? Now you shall see. 333 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:58.640 Trialss anone Helenus passes. 334 00:21:59.480 --> 00:21:59.839 Who's that? 335 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:06.319 That's Helenus? I marvel where Trilises. That's Helenus. I think 336 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:09.240 he went not forth today? That's Helenus. 337 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:12.960 Can Helenus fight Uncle Helenus? 338 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:17.880 No, yes, he'll fight him different well, I Marvel where 339 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:23.319 Trilises hark? Do not hear the people cry? Troilus Helenus 340 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:24.200 is a priest? 341 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:27.240 What sneaking fellow comes. 342 00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:29.960 Yonder troyless passers. 343 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:37.200 Where yonder that's dear for us, Ah these troilis. Here 344 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:42.319 is a mad niece, brave triylist, the prince of Chivalry. 345 00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:49.759 Peace for shame, Peace mark him, note him, Oh brave troilis. 346 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:53.640 Look well upon him, niece. Look you how his sword 347 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.400 is bloodied in his helm, more hack than hectar's. And 348 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:02.160 how he looks, and how he goes, Oh, admirable youth, 349 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:07.319 he never saw three and twenty go thy way, Troilers 350 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:11.519 go thy way. Had I a sister, would a grace 351 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:16.440 or a daughter a goddess, he should take his choice, Oh, 352 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:23.039 admirable men. Paris, Paris is dirt to him, and I 353 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:27.400 warrant helen to change, would give an eye to boot. 354 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:34.759 Here comes more common soldiers, pass an asses, fools, dolls, 355 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:39.839 chaff and brean chaff and bran porridge after meat. I 356 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.880 could live and die in the eyes of troilers. Neer 357 00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:47.720 look near, Look the eagles had gone, crows and doors, 358 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:50.839 crows and doors. I had rather be such a man 359 00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:54.319 as troylists than Agamemnon. And all Greece. 360 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.599 There is amongst the Greek's Achilles a better man than troilers. 361 00:24:00.519 --> 00:24:08.440 Achilles a drayman, a porter, a very camel. Well well, well, well, 362 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:13.759 why have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do 363 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.200 you know what a man is is not birth, beauty, 364 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:25.400 good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and 365 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.759 such like the spice and salt that season a man 366 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:32.640 I a minced man. 367 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:35.799 And then to be baked with no date in the pie, 368 00:24:36.319 --> 00:24:38.680 for then the man's state is out. 369 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:43.200 You are such a woman a man knows not at 370 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.200 what would you lie upon my back? 371 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:50.640 To defend my belly, upon my wit, to defend my wiles, 372 00:24:51.160 --> 00:24:55.759 upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty, my mask, to 373 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:01.079 defend my beauty, and you to defend all the and 374 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:05.440 at all these words. I lie at a thousand watches. 375 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:08.039 See one of your watches? 376 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:11.799 Nay, I'll watch you for that, And that's one of 377 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.079 the chiefest of them too. If I cannot want what 378 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.799 I would not have hit, I can watch you for 379 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.200 telling how I took the blow, unless it's swelled past hiding, 380 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:24.759 and then it's past watching. 381 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:29.960 You are such another enter troyless boy. 382 00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:36.160 Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you where at 383 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.039 your own house? There he arms him, good boy, tell 384 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:44.440 him I come exit, boy, I doubt he be hurt. 385 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.720 Fare you well, goodness at you Uncle. I will be 386 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:53.960 with you, niece, by and by to bring Uncle I 387 00:25:54.799 --> 00:26:00.000 a token from troilis exit panders. 388 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:07.319 By the same token you are aboard world's vows, gifts, tears, 389 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:13.640 and love's full sacrifice he offers in another's enterprise. But 390 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.480 more in troiless thousandfold I see than in the glass 391 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:22.519 of Panda's praise may be. Yet hold I off. Women 392 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:28.440 are angels wooing things. One are done. Joy so lies 393 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:32.960 in the doing that she beloved knows nought that knows 394 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.880 not this men price the thing ungained more than it 395 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:42.400 is that she was never yet that ever new love 396 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:48.000 God so sweet as when desired DIDs you. Therefore, this 397 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:56.079 maxim out of love I teach achievement is command ungained beseech. Then, 398 00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:01.000 though my heart's content firm love doth bear nothing of 399 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.559 that shall from mine eyes. 400 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:11.119 Appear Exit Scene three. The Grecian camp before Agamemnon's tent 401 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:20.359