Speaker 1: Act one of the History of Troilus and Cressida by
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Speaker 1: camp before it prologue.
Speaker 2: In Troy, there lies the scene from Isles of Greece.
Speaker 2: The Princess Augulis, their high bloods chafed have to the
Speaker 2: port of Athens, sent their ships, fraught with the ministers
Speaker 2: and instruments of cruel War sixty and nine that wore
Speaker 2: their crowd ats regal from the Athenian Bay, put forth
Speaker 2: towards Phrygia, and their vow is made to ransack Troy,
Speaker 2: within whose strong immures the ravished helen Menlaeus queen with
Speaker 2: wanton sleeps. And that's the quarrel. To Tenedos they come,
Speaker 2: and the deep drawing barks do their disgorge, their war
Speaker 2: like frottage. Now on darden plains, the fresh and yet
Speaker 2: unbruised Greeks to pitch their brave pavilions Priam six gated
Speaker 2: city darded and Timbria ilias Catus troyon and antenarides with
Speaker 2: massy staples and corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, stir up the
Speaker 2: suns of Troy now expectation, tickling skitty spirits on one
Speaker 2: and other side troyon and Greek sets on all hazard,
Speaker 2: And hither am I come a prolog, arm'd, but not
Speaker 2: in confidence of authour's pen or actor's voice, but suited
Speaker 2: in like conditions as our argument to tell you, fair beholders,
Speaker 2: that our play leaps o'er the vaunted firstlings of these broils,
Speaker 2: beginning in the middle, starting thence away to what may
Speaker 2: be digested in a play like or find fault, do
Speaker 2: as your pleasures are now good or bad? Tis but
Speaker 2: the chance of war.
Speaker 1: Act one seen one Troy before Priam's Palace, and to
Speaker 1: troyless armed and panderas, call here my varlet i'll unarm again?
Speaker 1: Why should I war without the walls of Troy that
Speaker 1: find such cruel battle here within each Troy and that
Speaker 1: is master of his heart? Let him de feeld troyless
Speaker 1: alas hath none.
Speaker 3: Oh, will these gear nay be mended.
Speaker 1: The Greeks are strong and skillful to their strength, fierce
Speaker 1: to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant. But I
Speaker 1: am weaker than a woman's tear, than sleep, fonder than ignorance,
Speaker 1: less valiant than the virgin in the night, and skillless
Speaker 1: as unpracticed infancy.
Speaker 3: Well, I have told you enough of this. For my part,
Speaker 3: I will not meddle, nor make no farther. He that
Speaker 3: will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry
Speaker 3: the grinding. Have I not tarried iy the grinding? But
Speaker 3: she must tarry the boating. Have I not tear it, aye,
Speaker 3: the boating, but you must carry the livening?
Speaker 1: Still?
Speaker 3: Have I tear it Hi to the livening. But here's
Speaker 3: yet in the word. Hereafter the kneading, the making of
Speaker 3: the cake, the heating of the oroden, and the baking. Nay,
Speaker 3: you must stay the cooling too, or you may trans
Speaker 3: burn your lips.
Speaker 1: Patience herself, what godess ere she be doth lesser Blanchet's
Speaker 1: sufferance than I do. At Prime's royal table, do I sit,
Speaker 1: and when fair Crest comes into my thoughts, so traitor
Speaker 1: when she comes? When she is thence.
Speaker 3: She looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw her look
Speaker 3: or any woman else.
Speaker 1: I was about to tell THEE when my heart, as
Speaker 1: wedged with a sigh, would rive and dwane, lest Hector
Speaker 1: or my father should perceive me. I have as when
Speaker 1: the sun doth light a storm buried the sigh and
Speaker 1: wrinkle the smile. But sorrow that is couched and seeming
Speaker 1: gladness is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
Speaker 3: And her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's. Well
Speaker 3: go too. There were no more comparisons between the women.
Speaker 3: But for my part, she is my kinswoman. I would not,
Speaker 3: as they term it, praise her, but I would somebody
Speaker 3: had heard her talk yesterday as I did. I will
Speaker 3: not depraise your sister Cassandra's wit.
Speaker 1: But oh, Pandres, I tell THEE, Pandres. When I do
Speaker 1: tell THEE, there my hopes I drowned. Reply, not in
Speaker 1: how many fathoms deep they lie and drenched. I tell THEE.
Speaker 1: I am mad, and Cress's love thou answerest. She is
Speaker 1: fair poorest in the open ulcer of my heart. Her eyes,
Speaker 1: her hair, cheek or gate, her voice handlest in thy discourse,
Speaker 1: Oh that her hand in whose comparison all whites are
Speaker 1: incriting their own reproach to soft seizure. The signets down
Speaker 1: as hush and spirit of sense, hard as the palm
Speaker 1: of plowmen. This thou tellst me, as true thou tellst
Speaker 1: me when I say I love her, But saying thus
Speaker 1: instead of oil and balm, thou layest in every gash
Speaker 1: that love hath given me the knife that made it.
Speaker 3: I speak no more than truth.
Speaker 1: Thou dost not speak so much faith.
Speaker 3: I'll not middle it. Let it be as she is.
Speaker 3: If she be fair, tis the better for her?
Speaker 2: And she be not.
Speaker 3: She has the men's in her own hands.
Speaker 1: Case pandras, how now panderas I have.
Speaker 3: Had my labor for my travail, ill thought on of her,
Speaker 3: and ill thought on of you, gone between and between,
Speaker 3: But small thanks for my labor?
Speaker 1: What art thou angry? Panders?
Speaker 2: What with me?
Speaker 3: Because she's kin to me? Therefore she's not so fair
Speaker 3: as Helen, And she would not kin to me. She
Speaker 3: would be as fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday.
Speaker 2: But what care?
Speaker 3: I I cannot, and you were a black more tis
Speaker 3: all one to me say I she is not fair.
Speaker 3: I do not care whether you do or no she's
Speaker 3: a fool to day behind her father let her to
Speaker 3: the Greeks, and so I'll tell her the next time
Speaker 3: I see her. For my part, I omitdle nor make
Speaker 3: no more in the matter.
Speaker 1: Panders not I sweet, Panders.
Speaker 3: Pray you speak no more to me. I will leave
Speaker 3: all as I found it, and there an.
Speaker 1: End exit, panders an alarum, peace you ungracious clamors pea
Speaker 1: through sounds fools on both sides. Helen, must needs be
Speaker 1: fair when with your blood you daily painter. Thus I
Speaker 1: cannot fight upon this argument. It is too starved a
Speaker 1: subject for my sword. But panderus, Oh gods, how do
Speaker 1: you plague me? I cannot come to Crescent but by Pander.
Speaker 1: And he's as touchy to be wooed to woo as
Speaker 1: she is stubborn, chased against our suit. Tell me Apollo
Speaker 1: for thy Daphnese love, what cress it is, what pander
Speaker 1: and what we her bed is in here? There she
Speaker 1: lies a pearl between our ilium and where she resides.
Speaker 1: Let it be called the wild and wandering flood. Herself
Speaker 1: the merchant and this sailing Pander, our doubtful hope, a
Speaker 1: convoy and our bark alarum enter Eneus.
Speaker 4: How now Prince troyal Us, wherefore not a field.
Speaker 1: Because not there This woman's answer sorts for woman as
Speaker 1: she is to be from thence what news and he
Speaker 1: is from the field to day.
Speaker 4: That Paris is who turned.
Speaker 1: Home and hurt by Whomneus.
Speaker 4: Troilus, by Menilaeus.
Speaker 1: Let Paris bleed tis but a scar to scorn. Paris
Speaker 1: is gored with Menilaeus horn alarum.
Speaker 4: Hark What good sport is out of town today?
Speaker 1: Better at home if what I might were may But
Speaker 1: to the sport abroad? Are you bound thither?
Speaker 3: In all swift haste, come go e.
Speaker 1: Then together Exeant seen too troy A Street, and her
Speaker 1: Crescada and her man Alexander.
Speaker 4: Who wordos went by Queen Hecuba and Helen, and whither
Speaker 4: Godey up to the eastern tower.
Speaker 2: Whose height commands as subjec all the veil to see
Speaker 2: the battle. Hector, whose patience is as a virtue fixed today,
Speaker 2: was moved he Chid Andromachy and struck his armorer, and
Speaker 2: like as there were husbandry and war before the sun rose,
Speaker 2: he was harnessed light and to the field goes he
Speaker 2: where every flower did as a prophet weep what it
Speaker 2: foresaw in Hector's wrath?
Speaker 4: What was his cause of anger?
Speaker 2: The noise goes this, There is among the Greeks a
Speaker 2: lord of Troy and blood, nephew to Hector. They call
Speaker 2: him Ajax good, And what of him? They say? He
Speaker 2: is a very man per se and stands alone.
Speaker 4: So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or
Speaker 4: hath no legs.
Speaker 2: This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions.
Speaker 2: He is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear,
Speaker 2: slow as the elephant, A man into whom nature hath
Speaker 2: so crowded humors that his valor is crushed into folly,
Speaker 2: his folly sauced with discretion. There is no man hath
Speaker 2: a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of, nor
Speaker 2: any man attained, but he has some stain of it.
Speaker 2: He is melancholy without cause, and marry against the hair.
Speaker 2: He hath the joints of everything, but everything so out
Speaker 2: of joint that he is a gouty briarius, many hands
Speaker 2: and no use of purblind argus, all eyes and no sight.
Speaker 4: But how should this man that makes me smile make
Speaker 4: Hector angry?
Speaker 2: They say he yesterday coughed Hector in the battle and
Speaker 2: struck him down. That distain and shame whereof hath ever
Speaker 2: since kept Hector fasting and waking?
Speaker 1: And to panderas who comes here?
Speaker 2: Madam? Your uncle panders?
Speaker 4: Hector is a gallant man as.
Speaker 2: May be in the world. Lady?
Speaker 3: What's that? What's that?
Speaker 4: Good morrow? Uncle? Panders?
Speaker 3: Good morrow? Gustin dressed? Who do you talk of? Good morrow? Alexander?
Speaker 3: How do you, cousin? When were you at Ilium this morning?
Speaker 4: Uncle?
Speaker 3: What were you talking of? Where I came? Was Hector
Speaker 3: armed and gone? Ere you came to Lium? Helen was
Speaker 3: not up?
Speaker 2: Was she?
Speaker 4: Hector was gone? But Helen was not up? Y'?
Speaker 3: So Hector was stirring early that we were.
Speaker 4: Talking of, and of his anger?
Speaker 3: Was he angry?
Speaker 4: So he says? Here?
Speaker 3: True he was? So I know the cause too. He'll
Speaker 3: lay about him today. I can tell them that, And
Speaker 3: this Troyless will not come far behind him. Let them
Speaker 3: take heed of Troyless. I can tell them that too.
Speaker 4: What is he angry too?
Speaker 3: Who triyllis trialis? Is the better man of the two?
Speaker 5: Oh jupitter tes no comparison, what not between Troylish and Hector.
Speaker 5: Do you know a man if you see him, I,
Speaker 5: if I ever saw him before and knew him?
Speaker 3: Well, I say Troylis is troyless.
Speaker 4: Then you say as I say, For I am sure
Speaker 4: he is not Hector.
Speaker 3: No, nor Hector is not troyless in some degree disjust
Speaker 3: to each of them.
Speaker 4: He is himself.
Speaker 3: Himself anless poor Troylis. I would he were so he
Speaker 3: is condition I had gone barefoot to India. He is
Speaker 3: not Hector himself, No, he thought himself, would there were himself?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: The gods are above time must friend all end well Triylis, well,
Speaker 3: I would my heart were in her body. No, Hector
Speaker 3: is not a better man than Troilers. Excuse me, he
Speaker 3: is elder.
Speaker 4: Pardon me, pardon me.
Speaker 3: The others not come to it. You shall tell me
Speaker 3: another tale when the others come to it. Hector shall
Speaker 3: not have his witness.
Speaker 4: Yere, he shall not need it. If he have his own.
Speaker 3: No, his qualities, no matter nor his beauty.
Speaker 4: Twould not become him his own spatter.
Speaker 3: You have no judgment, niece. Helen herself swore the other
Speaker 3: day that Troilers for a brown favor for so teas,
Speaker 3: I must confess not brown, neither no, but brown faith
Speaker 3: to say truth brown and not brown.
Speaker 4: To say the truth true and not true.
Speaker 3: She praached his complexion about Paris.
Speaker 4: Why Paris has color enough, So he has, then Troyles
Speaker 4: should have too much. If she praised him above, his
Speaker 4: complexion is higher than his he having color enough, and
Speaker 4: the other higher is too flaming a praise for a
Speaker 4: good complexion I had a sleeve. Helen's golden tongue had
Speaker 4: commended Troylus for a copper nose.
Speaker 3: I swear to you, I think Hell loves him better
Speaker 3: than Peri's humph.
Speaker 4: Then she is a merry Greek.
Speaker 3: Indeed, nay, I'm sure she does. She came to him
Speaker 3: the other day into the compass window, and you know
Speaker 3: he has not past three or four hairs on his chin.
Speaker 4: Indeed, a Teuchester's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein
Speaker 4: to a total.
Speaker 3: Like he's very young, and yet will he within three
Speaker 3: pounds lifts much as his brother Hector?
Speaker 4: Is he so young a man and so old a
Speaker 4: lift up?
Speaker 3: But to prove to you that Heley loves him, she
Speaker 3: came and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin.
Speaker 4: Do you know have mercy? How came it cloven?
Speaker 3: Well? You know she dimpled. I think he smiling becomes
Speaker 3: him better than any man in Phrygia.
Speaker 4: Oh he smiles valiantly, does he not?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, and we're a cloud in autumn.
Speaker 3: I go to them, but to prove to you that
Speaker 3: Helen loves Troyless.
Speaker 4: Troyless will stand to the proof if you'll prove it.
Speaker 3: So troiles. Why he esteems her no more than I
Speaker 3: esteem an addle egg.
Speaker 4: If you love an addle egg as well as you
Speaker 4: love an idle head, you would eat chickens and a shell.
Speaker 3: I cannot choose but laugh to think how she tickled
Speaker 3: his chin. Indeed, she has a marvelous white hand. I
Speaker 3: must needs confess without the wreck. And she takes upon
Speaker 3: her to spy a white hair on his chin.
Speaker 4: Her last poor chin. Many award is richer.
Speaker 3: But they were such laughing queen Hecuba laughed that her
Speaker 3: eyes ran o'er with millstones, and Cassandra laughed, but there
Speaker 3: was a.
Speaker 4: More temperate fire under the pot of her eyes. Did
Speaker 4: her eyes run over too?
Speaker 3: And Hector laughed at what was all this? Laughing Mary
Speaker 3: at the white hair, that heilen spy, don't troil his chin, And.
Speaker 4: Had been a green hair, I should have laughed too.
Speaker 3: They laughed, not so much at the hair as at
Speaker 3: his pretty answer.
Speaker 4: What was his answer?
Speaker 3: Quoth she, here's but two and fifty hairs on your chin,
Speaker 3: and one of them is white.
Speaker 4: This is her question, that's true.
Speaker 3: Make no question of that two and fifty hairs, quoth he,
Speaker 3: and one white. That white hair is my father, and
Speaker 3: all the rest are his sons. Jupiter quotes she, which
Speaker 3: of these hairs is Paris my husband? The thalked one?
Speaker 3: Quoth he plucked it out and gave it him. But
Speaker 3: there was such laughing, and Heaven so blushed, and Paris
Speaker 3: so shaft, and all the rest so laughed that it passed.
Speaker 4: So let it now, for it has been a great
Speaker 4: while going by.
Speaker 3: Well, cousin, I told you a thing, Yes today, think
Speaker 3: on't so I do. I'll be sworten. Tis true, he
Speaker 3: will weep you, And twere a man born in April.
Speaker 4: And I'll spring up in his tears, and to a
Speaker 4: nettle against me.
Speaker 1: Sound a retreat, hark.
Speaker 3: They are coming from the field. Shall we stand up
Speaker 3: here and see them as they pass towards Ilium. Good niece, do,
Speaker 3: sweet niece, Cressida.
Speaker 4: At your pleasure.
Speaker 3: Here here, here's an excellent place. Here we may see
Speaker 3: most bravely. I'll tell you them all by their names
Speaker 3: as they pass by. But Mark troylis above the rest.
Speaker 1: Eneas passes speak not so loud.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's a Eneus. He is not that a brave man.
Speaker 3: He's one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you.
Speaker 3: But Mark Troylis, you shall see Anon.
Speaker 1: And Tina passes.
Speaker 4: Who's that?
Speaker 3: That's and Tina? He has a shrewd wit, I can
Speaker 3: tell you. And he's a man good enough. He's one
Speaker 3: of the soundest judgments in Troy, whosoever, and a proper
Speaker 3: man of person. When comes Troyless, I'll show you Troyless Anon.
Speaker 3: If he sees me, you shall see him NodD at me.
Speaker 4: Will he give you the nod? You shall see? If
Speaker 4: he do, the rich shall have more.
Speaker 1: Hector passes, that's Hector.
Speaker 3: That that look you that there's a fellow, Go thy way, Hector.
Speaker 3: There's a brave man, niece, Oh brave Hector. Look how
Speaker 3: he looks. There's a countenance. He's not a brave man.
Speaker 4: Oh, a brave man is.
Speaker 3: An It does a man's heart good. Look you what
Speaker 3: hacks are on his helmet? Look you, Yonder, do you see?
Speaker 3: Look you there? There's no jesting, there's laying on ticked off.
Speaker 3: Who will as they say?
Speaker 4: There be hacks be those with swords?
Speaker 3: Swords anything he cares not and the devil come to him.
Speaker 3: It's all one by God's lid. It does one's heart good.
Speaker 3: Yonder comes Paris, Yonder comes, Paris, Paris passes. Looky, Yonder nas,
Speaker 3: it's not a gallant man too?
Speaker 1: Is not?
Speaker 3: Why this is brave?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Who said he came hurt home today he's not hurt?
Speaker 3: Why this will do Helen's heart good?
Speaker 4: Now? Hah?
Speaker 3: Would I could see triyless? Now you shall see.
Speaker 1: Trialss anone Helenus passes.
Speaker 4: Who's that?
Speaker 3: That's Helenus? I marvel where Trilises. That's Helenus. I think
Speaker 3: he went not forth today? That's Helenus.
Speaker 4: Can Helenus fight Uncle Helenus?
Speaker 3: No, yes, he'll fight him different well, I Marvel where
Speaker 3: Trilises hark? Do not hear the people cry? Troilus Helenus
Speaker 3: is a priest?
Speaker 4: What sneaking fellow comes.
Speaker 1: Yonder troyless passers.
Speaker 3: Where yonder that's dear for us, Ah these troilis. Here
Speaker 3: is a mad niece, brave triylist, the prince of Chivalry.
Speaker 3: Peace for shame, Peace mark him, note him, Oh brave troilis.
Speaker 3: Look well upon him, niece. Look you how his sword
Speaker 3: is bloodied in his helm, more hack than hectar's. And
Speaker 3: how he looks, and how he goes, Oh, admirable youth,
Speaker 3: he never saw three and twenty go thy way, Troilers
Speaker 3: go thy way. Had I a sister, would a grace
Speaker 3: or a daughter a goddess, he should take his choice, Oh,
Speaker 3: admirable men. Paris, Paris is dirt to him, and I
Speaker 3: warrant helen to change, would give an eye to boot.
Speaker 3: Here comes more common soldiers, pass an asses, fools, dolls,
Speaker 3: chaff and brean chaff and bran porridge after meat. I
Speaker 3: could live and die in the eyes of troilers. Neer
Speaker 3: look near, Look the eagles had gone, crows and doors,
Speaker 3: crows and doors. I had rather be such a man
Speaker 3: as troylists than Agamemnon. And all Greece.
Speaker 4: There is amongst the Greek's Achilles a better man than troilers.
Speaker 3: Achilles a drayman, a porter, a very camel. Well well, well, well,
Speaker 3: why have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do
Speaker 3: you know what a man is is not birth, beauty,
Speaker 3: good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and
Speaker 3: such like the spice and salt that season a man
Speaker 3: I a minced man.
Speaker 4: And then to be baked with no date in the pie,
Speaker 4: for then the man's state is out.
Speaker 3: You are such a woman a man knows not at
Speaker 3: what would you lie upon my back?
Speaker 4: To defend my belly, upon my wit, to defend my wiles,
Speaker 4: upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty, my mask, to
Speaker 4: defend my beauty, and you to defend all the and
Speaker 4: at all these words. I lie at a thousand watches.
Speaker 3: See one of your watches?
Speaker 4: Nay, I'll watch you for that, And that's one of
Speaker 4: the chiefest of them too. If I cannot want what
Speaker 4: I would not have hit, I can watch you for
Speaker 4: telling how I took the blow, unless it's swelled past hiding,
Speaker 4: and then it's past watching.
Speaker 1: You are such another enter troyless boy.
Speaker 3: Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you where at
Speaker 3: your own house? There he arms him, good boy, tell
Speaker 3: him I come exit, boy, I doubt he be hurt.
Speaker 3: Fare you well, goodness at you Uncle. I will be
Speaker 3: with you, niece, by and by to bring Uncle I
Speaker 3: a token from troilis exit panders.
Speaker 4: By the same token you are aboard world's vows, gifts, tears,
Speaker 4: and love's full sacrifice he offers in another's enterprise. But
Speaker 4: more in troiless thousandfold I see than in the glass
Speaker 4: of Panda's praise may be. Yet hold I off. Women
Speaker 4: are angels wooing things. One are done. Joy so lies
Speaker 4: in the doing that she beloved knows nought that knows
Speaker 4: not this men price the thing ungained more than it
Speaker 4: is that she was never yet that ever new love
Speaker 4: God so sweet as when desired DIDs you. Therefore, this
Speaker 4: maxim out of love I teach achievement is command ungained beseech. Then,
Speaker 4: though my heart's content firm love doth bear nothing of
Speaker 4: that shall from mine eyes.
Speaker 1: Appear Exit Scene three. The Grecian camp before Agamemnon's tent
Speaker 1: senate enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Menelaeus, and others.
Speaker 2: Princes, What grief hath set these jaundies or your cheeks?
Speaker 2: The ample proposition that hope makes in all designs begun
Speaker 2: on earth below, fails in the promised largeness, checks and
Speaker 2: disasters grow in the veins of actions highest reared as
Speaker 2: not by the conflux of meeting the sap infects the
Speaker 2: sound pine and diverts his grain, tortive an errand from
Speaker 2: his course of growth. Nor, Princes, is it matter new
Speaker 2: to us that we come short of our suppose, so
Speaker 2: far that after seven year siege, yet troy Walls stand
Speaker 2: sith every action that has gone before, whereof we have
Speaker 2: wreck'd trial, did draw bias and thwart, not answering the aim,
Speaker 2: And that unbodied figure of the thought that gave surmised shape.
Speaker 2: Why then, you, princes, do you, with cheeks abashed, behold
Speaker 2: our works and call them shames, which are indeed naught
Speaker 2: else but the protractive trials of great jove to fine,
Speaker 2: persistive constancy in men, the fineness of which metal is
Speaker 2: not found in Fortune's love. For then the bold and coward,
Speaker 2: the wise and fool, the artist and unread, the hard
Speaker 2: and soft seem all affined and kin but in the
Speaker 2: wind and tempest of her frowned distinction with a broad
Speaker 2: and powerful fan puffing at all winnows the light away,
Speaker 2: and what hath mass all matter by itself lies rich
Speaker 2: in virtue and unmingled.
Speaker 3: You read the dewe observance of thy godlike seat, great
Speaker 3: eggamemmon nestor shall apply thy latest words in the reproof
Speaker 3: of chance lies the true proof of men. The sea
Speaker 3: being smooth, how many shallow buble boats they sail upon
Speaker 3: her patient breast, making their way with those of nobler bulk.
Speaker 3: But let the ruffian body us once enrage the gentle
Speaker 3: theatis and anon Behold, there's strong ribbed bark through liquid mountains,
Speaker 3: cut bounding between the two moist elements, like Percy's's horse.
Speaker 3: Where's then their saucy boat, whose week contimbered size, but
Speaker 3: even now co rive full greatness. I either to harbor fled,
Speaker 3: or made a toast for Neptune, even so that valors show,
Speaker 3: and Valu's worth divide in storms of fortune or in
Speaker 3: her ray and brightness. The herd hath more annoyance by
Speaker 3: the breeze than by the tiger. But when the splitting
Speaker 3: wind makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks and flies
Speaker 3: fled under shade, why then the thing of courage, as
Speaker 3: roused with rage, with rage, dost sympathize, and with an
Speaker 3: accent tuned in self same key retorts to chiding fortune.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Agamemnon, the great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Speaker 1: heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit in whom
Speaker 1: the tempers and the minds of all should be shut
Speaker 1: up Here what you'll, Ulysses speaks besides the applause and
Speaker 1: approbation the witch to Agamemnon most mighty, for thy place,
Speaker 1: and sway to Nestor, and Thou most reverend, for thy
Speaker 1: stretched out life. I give to both your speeches, which
Speaker 1: were such as Agamemnon in the hand of Greece should
Speaker 1: hold up high in brass, and such again as venerable Nestor,
Speaker 1: hatched in silver, should, with a bond of air, strong
Speaker 1: as the axle tree on which Heaven rides, knit all
Speaker 1: the Greekish ears to his experienced tongue.
Speaker 3: Yet, let it.
Speaker 1: Please both thou great and wise to hear Ulysses speak.
Speaker 2: Speak, Prince of Ithaca, and be it of less expect
Speaker 2: that matter needless are in portless burden. Divide thy lips.
Speaker 2: Then we are confident when rank for sites opes his
Speaker 2: mastic jars, we shall hear music, wit and oracle Troy.
Speaker 1: Yet upon his basis had been down, and the great
Speaker 1: Hector's sword had lacked a master. But for these instances
Speaker 1: the specialty of rule hath been neglected. And look how
Speaker 1: many Grecian tends to stand hollow upon this plain, so
Speaker 1: many hollow factions, when that the general is not like
Speaker 1: the hive, to whom the foragers shall all repair. What
Speaker 1: honey is expected degree being visited the unworthiest shows as
Speaker 1: fairly in the mask the heavens themselves. The planets and
Speaker 1: this center observe degree priority and place in sisture, coarse proportion, season, form, office,
Speaker 1: and custom, in all line of order. And therefore is
Speaker 1: the glorious planet's soul in noble eminence, enthroned in sphered
Speaker 1: amidst the other, whose medicinable eye corrects the influence of
Speaker 1: evil planets and posts, like the commandment of a king
Speaker 1: sounds checked to good and bad. But when the planets
Speaker 1: in evil mixture to disorder, wander what plagues and what portence?
Speaker 1: What mutiny? What raging of the sea, shaking of earth,
Speaker 1: commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, divert and crack,
Speaker 1: rend and deracinate the unity and merit calm of states
Speaker 1: quite from their fixture. Oh, when degree is shaped, which
Speaker 1: is the ladder of all high designs, the enterprise is sick.
Speaker 1: How could communities degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities,
Speaker 1: peaceful commerce from dividable shores, the primogeneity in do of birth,
Speaker 1: prerogative of age, crowns, scepters, lawrels. But by degree stand
Speaker 1: an authentic place. Take but degree away, untomb that string,
Speaker 1: and hark what discord follows. Each thing melts in mere
Speaker 1: a pugnancy. The bounded waters should lift their bosoms higher
Speaker 1: than the shores, and make a sop of all this
Speaker 1: solid globe. Strength should be lord of imbecility, and the
Speaker 1: rude son should strike his father dead. Force should be right,
Speaker 1: rather right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides
Speaker 1: should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then
Speaker 1: everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite,
Speaker 1: and appetite. A universal wolf, so doubly seconded with will
Speaker 1: and power, must make perforce a universal prey, and last
Speaker 1: eat up himself great Agamemnon. This chaos. When degree is
Speaker 1: suffocate follows the choking, and this neglection of degree, it
Speaker 1: is that by a Pace goes backward, with a purpose
Speaker 1: at half to climb the generals disdained by him one
Speaker 1: step below he, by the next, the next by him beneath.
Speaker 1: So every step exampled by the first Pace that is
Speaker 1: sick of his superior grows to an envious fever of
Speaker 1: pale and bloodless emulation. And tis this fever that keeps
Speaker 1: Troy on foot not her own sineus to enter taiale
Speaker 1: of length Troy, in our wigness, stands not in her strength.
Speaker 3: HM most wisely had Ulysses here discovered the fever whereof
Speaker 3: or our power is sick?
Speaker 2: The nature of the sickness found Ulysses, what is the remedy?
Speaker 1: The great Achilles, whom a pin crowns the sinew and
Speaker 1: the forehand of our host, having his ear full of
Speaker 1: his airy fame, grows dainty of his worth, and in
Speaker 1: his tent lies mocking our designs with him petrarculous upon
Speaker 1: a lazy bed, the livelong day breaks scared chests, and
Speaker 1: with a ridiculous and awkward action which slanderer, he imitation calls.
Speaker 1: He pageants us sometime great agama anon, thy topless deputation
Speaker 1: he puts on and like a strutting player whose conceit
Speaker 1: lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich to
Speaker 1: hear the wooden dialogue and sound TwixT his stretched footing
Speaker 1: and the scaffoldage such to be pitied in a rested seeming.
Speaker 1: He acts thy greatness in and when he speaks tis
Speaker 1: like a chime a mending with terms unsquared, which, from
Speaker 1: the tongue of roaring typhoon dropped would seem hyperboles at
Speaker 1: this fusty stuff. The large Achilles, on his pressed bed,
Speaker 1: lolling from his deep chest, loss out aloud applause, cries, excellent,
Speaker 1: tis agamemnon, right now play me nest her hem and
Speaker 1: stroke thy beard as he being rested to summration. That's
Speaker 1: done as near as extremest ends of parallels, as like
Speaker 1: as vulcan than his wife. Yet god Achilles still cries, excellent,
Speaker 1: tis nest a, right now play in me Patroclus arming
Speaker 1: to answer in a night alarm. Then forsooth the faint
Speaker 1: defects of age must be the scene of mirth. To
Speaker 1: cough and spit and with a palsy fumbling on his
Speaker 1: courget shake in and out of the rivet. And at
Speaker 1: this sport, Sir Valor dies cries, oh enough, betrocles, or
Speaker 1: give me ribs of steel. I shall split all in
Speaker 1: pleasure of my spleen. And in this fashion all our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
Speaker 1: severals and generals of grace, exact achievements, plots, orders, preventions,
Speaker 1: excitements to the field or speech for truth success or loss.
Speaker 1: What is or is not serves as stuff for these
Speaker 1: to make paradoxes.
Speaker 3: And in the imitation of these, Twain who as ulysseses opinion,
Speaker 3: crowns with an imperial voice, many are. In fact aj
Speaker 3: Ex has grown self willed and bares his head in
Speaker 3: such a rain. In full is prouder place as broad
Speaker 3: Achilles keeps his tent like him, make fectious feats, rails
Speaker 3: on our state of war, bold as oracle and sets
Speaker 3: the sight. Is a slave whose gull coins slanders like
Speaker 3: a mint, to match us in comparisons with dirt, to
Speaker 3: weaken and discredit our exposure, how ranksoever rounded in with dinger.
Speaker 1: They tax our policy and call it cowardice. Count wisdom
Speaker 1: as non member of the war forestall presence and esteem,
Speaker 1: no act but that of hand, the still and men
Speaker 1: to parts that to contrive. How many hands shall strike
Speaker 1: when fitness calls them on, and know by measure of
Speaker 1: their observant toil the enemy's weight. Why this hath not
Speaker 1: a finger's dignity? They call this bed work, mappery closet
Speaker 1: war So that the ram that batters down the wall
Speaker 1: for the great swinge and rudeness of his poise they
Speaker 1: placed before his hand that made the engine, or those that,
Speaker 1: with the fineness of their souls by reason guide his execution.
Speaker 3: It is be granted an Achilles horse makes many deity
Speaker 3: sons tucket what trumpet?
Speaker 2: Look Menelaeus from Troy enter Emius, what would you for
Speaker 2: our tent?
Speaker 4: Is this great Agamemnon's tent? I pray you even this
Speaker 4: may one that is a herald and the prince do
Speaker 4: a fair message to his kingly.
Speaker 2: Eyes with sureties longer than Achilles' arm. For all the
Speaker 2: Greekish heads, which with one voice called Agamemnon head and
Speaker 2: general fair leaf.
Speaker 4: And large security. How may a stranger to those most
Speaker 4: imperial looks know them from eyes of other mortals? How
Speaker 4: I I ask that I might waken reverence, and bid,
Speaker 4: did cheek be ready with a blush modest as morning
Speaker 4: when she coldly eyes the youthful fevers? Which is that
Speaker 4: God in office guiding men? Which is the High and
Speaker 4: mighty Agamemnon, as.
Speaker 2: Troyan scorns us or the men of Troy are ceremonious courtures.
Speaker 4: Courtiers are free as stebonnaire, unarmed as spending angels. That's
Speaker 4: their fame in peace. But when they would seem soldiers,
Speaker 4: they have galls, good arms, strong joints, true swords, and
Speaker 4: Jove's accord. Nothing so full of heart but pace heeneus
Speaker 4: peace Troyan lay thy finger on their lips. The worthiness
Speaker 4: of praise disdains his worth. If that the praist himself
Speaker 4: bring the praise forth. But what the repining enemy commands
Speaker 4: that breath fame blows that praise soul pure transcends.
Speaker 2: Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself aeneas.
Speaker 4: Hi Greek, that is my name?
Speaker 2: What's your affairs?
Speaker 4: I pray you, sir, pardon tis for Agamemnon's ears.
Speaker 2: He hears not private that comes from.
Speaker 4: Troy, nor I from Troy. Come not to whisper with him.
Speaker 4: I bring a trumpet to awake his ear, to set
Speaker 4: his sense on the attentive bent, and then to speak.
Speaker 2: Speak frankly as the wind. It is not Agamemnon's sleeping
Speaker 2: hour that thou shalt know Troy. And he is awake,
Speaker 2: he tells thee so himself.
Speaker 4: Trumpet, blow loud, sent thy brass voice through all these
Speaker 4: lazy tents, and every Greek of metal. Let him know
Speaker 4: what Troy means fairly, shall be spoke.
Speaker 1: Aloud, sound trumpet.
Speaker 4: We have great Agamemnon here in Troy. A prince called
Speaker 4: Hector Priem is his father, who, in this dull and
Speaker 4: long continued truce, is rusty grown. He bade me take
Speaker 4: a trumpet, and to this purpose speak kings, princes, lords.
Speaker 4: If there be one among the fairest of Greece, that
Speaker 4: holds his honor higher than his ease, that feeds his
Speaker 4: praise more than he fears his peril, that knows his
Speaker 4: valor and knows not his fear, that loves his mistress
Speaker 4: more than in confession with true, and vows to her
Speaker 4: own lipsy loves, and dare avow her beauty and her
Speaker 4: worth in other arms than hers to him this challenge. Hector,
Speaker 4: in view of Troyans and of Greeks, shall make it good,
Speaker 4: or do his best to do it. He hath a lady, wiser, fairer,
Speaker 4: truer than ever Greek did couple in his arms, and
Speaker 4: will tomorrow with his trumpet call midway between your tents
Speaker 4: and worlds of Troy, to rouse a Grecian that is
Speaker 4: true in love. If any come, Hector shall honor him.
Speaker 4: If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires, the
Speaker 4: Grecian dames are sunburned and not worth the splinter of
Speaker 4: a lance.
Speaker 2: Even so much, this shall be told our lovers, Lord Anius,
Speaker 2: if none of them have soul in such a kind,
Speaker 2: we left them all at home. But we are soldiers,
Speaker 2: and may that soldier a mere recreant proof that means
Speaker 2: not hath not or is not in love. If then
Speaker 2: one is, or hath or means to be that one
Speaker 2: neat Hector, if none else, I am here.
Speaker 3: Till him of nestor one that was a man. When
Speaker 3: Hector's grandsire sucketh, he is old now. But if they
Speaker 3: be not in our Grecian host, a nobler man, that
Speaker 3: hath one spark of fire to answer for his love.
Speaker 3: Tell him from me, I'll hide my silver beard in
Speaker 3: a gold beaver, and in my vambrace, put this withered bronze,
Speaker 3: and meeting him, will tell him that my lady was
Speaker 3: fairer than his grandam, and as chaste as may be
Speaker 3: in the world. His youth in flood, I'll prove this
Speaker 3: troth with my three drops of blood.
Speaker 4: Now, Heavens forefend such scarcity of youth.
Speaker 2: Amen, fair lord Andeus. Let me touch your hand to
Speaker 2: our pavilion. Shall I leave you? Sir? Achilles shall have
Speaker 2: word of this intent, So shall each lord of green,
Speaker 2: from tent to tent. Yourself shall feast with us before
Speaker 2: you go and find the welcome of a noble foe.
Speaker 1: Exellon all but Ulysses and nestor nestor.
Speaker 3: What is Ulysses?
Speaker 1: I have a young conception in my brain. Be you
Speaker 1: my time to bring it to some shape?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: Tis? Blunt wedges arrive, hard knots. The seeded pride that
Speaker 1: haf to this maturity blown up in rank Achilles, must
Speaker 1: or now be cropped or shedding breed a nursery of
Speaker 1: life evil to overbulk us all well, and how this
Speaker 1: challenge that the gallant Hector sends, however it is spread
Speaker 1: in general name, relates in purpose only to Achilles.
Speaker 3: True, that purpose is prespicuous, even as substance whose grossness
Speaker 3: little carrot is sum up. And in the publication make
Speaker 3: no strain but that Achilles were his brain as barren
Speaker 3: as banks of Libya. Though Apollo knows he's dry enough,
Speaker 3: will with great speed of judgment, I, with celerity find
Speaker 3: Hector's purpose pointing on him, and weakened the answer thank you,
Speaker 3: why tis most meat? Who may you else suppose that?
Speaker 3: And from Hector bring those honors off? If not Achilles,
Speaker 3: though to be a sportful combat, Yet in this trial
Speaker 3: much opinion dwells. For here the tryings taste our dearest
Speaker 3: repute with their finest palate, and trust to me ulysses,
Speaker 3: our imputation shall be oddly poised in this file action
Speaker 3: for the success, although particular, shall give a scantling of
Speaker 3: good or bad unto the general. And in such indexes,
Speaker 3: although small, prey to their subsequent volumes, there is seen
Speaker 3: the baby figure of the giant mass of things to come.
Speaker 3: At large. It is supposed he that meets Hector issues
Speaker 3: from our choice, and choice being mutual act of all
Speaker 3: our souls, makes merit her election, and doth boil as
Speaker 3: to her from forth us all a man distilled out
Speaker 3: of our virtues, who miscarrying what heart receives from hence
Speaker 3: a conquering part to steal a strong opinion to themselves
Speaker 3: which entertained limbs are his instruments, in no less working
Speaker 3: than our swords and bows. Directive by the limbs.
Speaker 1: Give pardoned my speech. Therefore tis meet Achilles meets not Hector.
Speaker 1: Let us, like merchants, first show foul wares and think
Speaker 1: perchance they'll sell, if not the luster of the better
Speaker 1: shall succeed by showing the words first. Do not consent
Speaker 1: that ever Hector and Achilles meet, for both our honor
Speaker 1: and our shame. In this our dog with two strange followers.
Speaker 3: I seed him not with my old eyes. What are they?
Speaker 1: What glory our Achilles shares from Hector? Were he not proud,
Speaker 1: we all should share with him. But he already is
Speaker 1: too insolent, And it were better part in afric sun
Speaker 1: than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes
Speaker 1: should escape Hector fair if he were foiled, Why then
Speaker 1: we do our main opinion crush and taint of our
Speaker 1: best man. No, make a lottery, and by device let
Speaker 1: blockish Ajax draw the sword to fight with Hector among ourselves.
Speaker 1: Give him allowance for the better man, for that will
Speaker 1: physic the great Mermadon, who broils in loud applause, and
Speaker 1: make him fail his crest that prouder than blue iris bends.
Speaker 1: If the dull, bringless Ajax come safe off, we'll dress
Speaker 1: him up in voices. If he fail yet go we
Speaker 1: under our opinions still that we have better men, but
Speaker 1: hit or miss our project's life. This shape of sense
Speaker 1: assumes Ajax employed plucks down Achilles plumes.
Speaker 3: Now ulysses, I begin to relish thy advice, and I
Speaker 3: will give a taste there or forthwith to eggaminmon go
Speaker 3: we to him straight too. Curse shall tame each other.
Speaker 3: Pride alone must tire the mastiffs on as twere they
Speaker 3: bone exellant
Speaker 1: And of act one