Speaker 1: Act two of the History of Troilus and Cressida by
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Speaker 1: Grecian camp enter Ajax and societies.
Speaker 2: For soise Agamemnon. How if he had boils full all
Speaker 2: over generally for soiease, and those boils did run, say
Speaker 2: so did not the general run? Then? Were not that
Speaker 2: a body cor dog? Then there would come some matter
Speaker 2: from him? I see none.
Speaker 1: Now, Thou beach wolf son, constangle, here field strikes him.
Speaker 2: The plague of grace upon thee. Thou mongrel, beef wetted lord.
Speaker 1: Speak, Then thou unsulted livin speak. I will beat thee
Speaker 1: into handsomeness.
Speaker 2: I shall sooner rail the into wit and holiness. But
Speaker 2: I think thy horse will sooner conno oration than thou
Speaker 2: learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike, canst thou
Speaker 2: a red morale of thy Jade's tricks?
Speaker 1: Toad stool, learn me the proclamation?
Speaker 2: Dost thou think I have no sense? Thou strikest me?
Speaker 1: Thus the proclamation.
Speaker 2: Thou art proclaim the four I think.
Speaker 1: Do not pop in time? Do not my fingers each.
Speaker 2: I would down, didst it from head to foot, and
Speaker 2: I had the scratching of thee, I would make thee
Speaker 2: the oaths of a scabbard grease. Where thou art forth
Speaker 2: the incursions. Thou strikest as slow as another.
Speaker 1: I say the proclamation, Thou.
Speaker 2: Grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles. And thou art
Speaker 2: as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is
Speaker 2: at the Proserpina's beauty. Aye that thou boxed at him,
Speaker 2: mistress through sieties. Thou shouldst strike him Koblan. He went
Speaker 2: pun the into shivers with his fist, as a sailor
Speaker 2: breaks a biscuit.
Speaker 1: You horse and cur strikes him.
Speaker 2: Do do.
Speaker 1: Thou stool for a witch?
Speaker 2: I do do thou sudden witted lord, Thou hast no
Speaker 2: more brain than I have in mine elbows. And I said,
Speaker 2: ye call me tutor thee, you scarvy valiant ass. Thou
Speaker 2: art here but a thrash Troyans. And thou art bought
Speaker 2: and sold among those of any whit like a barbarian slave.
Speaker 2: If thou used to beat me, I will begin at
Speaker 2: thy heel, and tell what thou art by inches thou
Speaker 2: thing of no bowels thou you dog, you scavy lord?
Speaker 2: You care strikes him miles his idiot? Do rudeness? Do camel?
Speaker 2: Do do.
Speaker 1: Enter Achilles and Patroclus? Why how now, Ajax? Wherefore do you?
Speaker 2: Thus? How? Now?
Speaker 1: Therocieties? What's the matter?
Speaker 2: Man? You see him there? Do you? Hi?
Speaker 1: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: Nay? Look upon him? So I do?
Speaker 1: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: But regard him? Well? Well?
Speaker 1: Why so I do?
Speaker 2: But yet you look not well upon him. For whosoever
Speaker 2: you take him to be, he is Ajax. I know
Speaker 2: that fool aye, But that fool knows not himself the fool.
Speaker 1: Oh I beat mee.
Speaker 2: Lo lo lo lo what modicums of wit? He utters?
Speaker 2: His evasions have ears? Thus long I have bobbed his
Speaker 2: brain more than he has beat my bones. I will
Speaker 2: buy nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia matter
Speaker 2: is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow. This
Speaker 2: lord Achilles Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly
Speaker 2: and his gats in his head, I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: I say of him? What I say this Ajax?
Speaker 1: Ajax offers to him.
Speaker 2: Nay, good Agax has not so much wit.
Speaker 1: Nay, I must hold you as.
Speaker 2: Well, stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he
Speaker 2: comes to fight peaceful, I would have peace and quietness.
Speaker 2: But the fool will not he there that he look
Speaker 2: you there.
Speaker 1: Oh, thou dumped ker. I shall will you set your
Speaker 1: wit to a.
Speaker 2: Fool's No I wanted you. The fools will shame it.
Speaker 3: Good words, sircieties.
Speaker 1: What's the quarrel? I bade the file out, go learn
Speaker 1: me the tenor of the proclamation, and he rails upon me.
Speaker 2: I serve thee not will go to go to. I
Speaker 2: serve here voluntary.
Speaker 1: Your last service was sufferings twas not voluntary. No man
Speaker 1: is beaten voluntary. Ajax was here the voluntary, and you
Speaker 1: as under an impress in'n so.
Speaker 2: A great deal of your wit too, lies in your sinews,
Speaker 2: or else there be liars. Heck dash shall have a
Speaker 2: great catch and knock out either of your brains. I
Speaker 2: were a good cracker, fusty nut with no kernel. What
Speaker 2: with me?
Speaker 1: Two societies?
Speaker 2: There's Ulysses, an old nestor whose wit was moldy air.
Speaker 2: Your grandsires had nails on their toes. Yoke you like
Speaker 2: drought oxen, and make you plow up the wars?
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 2: Yes? Good? Sooth to Achilles to Ajax.
Speaker 1: To won't you cut out your tongue?
Speaker 2: Care's no matter. I shall speak as much as thou afterwards, no.
Speaker 3: More words, societies peace.
Speaker 2: I will hold my piece when Achilles brack bids me.
Speaker 1: Shall I there's for you, Patroclus.
Speaker 2: I will see you hang like clock poles. Ere I
Speaker 2: come any more to your tents, I well keep where
Speaker 2: there is witstirring, and leave the faction of fools.
Speaker 4: Exit A good riddance Mary.
Speaker 5: This sirus proclaims all our host, that Hector, at the
Speaker 5: fifth hour of the sun will with a trumpet TwixT
Speaker 5: our tents and Troy tomorrow morning, call some knight to
Speaker 5: arms that have this stomach, and such.
Speaker 1: A one that dare maintain.
Speaker 2: I know not what.
Speaker 1: Tis trash? Farewell, farewell? Who should launch the I know
Speaker 1: not tis put to lottery? Otherwise he knew his man,
Speaker 1: Oh reading you, or will go leer Molvid exillant Scene two,
Speaker 1: Troy Priam's Palace, enter Prime Hector, Troylis, Paris and Helenus.
Speaker 3: After so many hours lives speeches spend. Thus, once again,
Speaker 3: says Nestor, from the Greeks, deliver Helen and all damage
Speaker 3: else as honor, loss of time, travail, expends, wounds, friends,
Speaker 3: and what else dear that is consumed in hot digestion
Speaker 3: of this cormorant war shall be struck off? Hector, what
Speaker 3: say you to it?
Speaker 2: Though no man lester fears the Greeks than I, as
Speaker 2: far as toucheth my particular yet dread prime, there is
Speaker 2: no lady of mor sot after bowels, more spongy to
Speaker 2: suck in the sense of fear, more ready to cry out,
Speaker 2: who knows what follows than Hector is. The wound of
Speaker 2: peace is surety, surety secure. But Marriette is called the
Speaker 2: beacon of the wise, the tent that searches to the
Speaker 2: bottom of the worst. Let Helen go. Since the first
Speaker 2: sword was drawn about this question, every tithe soul, amongst
Speaker 2: many thousand dimes, hath been as dear as Helen. I
Speaker 2: mean of ours. If we have lost so many tenths
Speaker 2: of ours to guard a thing not ours, not worth
Speaker 2: to us, had it our name the value of one ten,
Speaker 2: what merits in that reason which denies the yielding of
Speaker 2: her up five five.
Speaker 1: My brother, where you the worth and honor of a
Speaker 1: king so great is our dread fathers? In a scale
Speaker 1: of common ounces? Will you with counter some the past
Speaker 1: proportion of his infinite and buckle in a waste most fathomless,
Speaker 1: with spans and inches so diminutive as fears and reasons?
Speaker 1: Fi for Godly's shame.
Speaker 6: No marvel though you bite so sharp of reasons, you
Speaker 6: are empty of them? Should not our father bear the
Speaker 6: great sway oh his affairs with reason? Because your speech
Speaker 6: had none that tails him?
Speaker 1: So you are for dreams and slumbers? Brother priest, you
Speaker 1: fur your gloves with reason? Here are your reasons? You
Speaker 1: know an enemy intends you harm. You know a sword employed.
Speaker 1: It's perilous, and reason flies the object of our harm?
Speaker 1: Who marvels? Then? When Helenus beholds a Grecian and his sword,
Speaker 1: if he do set the very wings of reason to
Speaker 1: his heels and fly like chitten mercury from Jove, or
Speaker 1: like a star disorbed. Nay, if we talk of reason,
Speaker 1: let's shut our gates and sleep. Man Hood and honor
Speaker 1: should have heir hearts? Would they but fat their thoughts?
Speaker 1: This crammed reason, reason and respect make livers pale, and
Speaker 1: lust her deject brother.
Speaker 2: She is not worth what she doth cost, the.
Speaker 1: Keeping what's aught, but as is valued.
Speaker 2: But value dwells not in particular will it holds his
Speaker 2: estimate and dignity as well. Wherein tis precious of itself,
Speaker 2: as in the prizer tis mader dolatry to make the
Speaker 2: surface greater than the God, and the will doubt that
Speaker 2: is attributive to what infectiously itself affects, without some image
Speaker 2: of the affected merit.
Speaker 1: I take to day a wife, and my election is
Speaker 1: led on in the conduct of my will. My will
Speaker 1: enkindled by mine eyes and ears, two traded pilots TwixT
Speaker 1: the dangerous shores of will and judgment. How may I avoid,
Speaker 1: although my will distaste what elected the wife I chose,
Speaker 1: there can be no evasion to blench from this, and
Speaker 1: to stand firm by honor. We turn not back the
Speaker 1: silks upon the merchant when we have soiled them, nor
Speaker 1: the remainder viands. We do not throw an unrespective sieve,
Speaker 1: because we now are full. It was thought meet Paris
Speaker 1: should do some vengeance on the Greeks. Your breath with
Speaker 1: full consent, bellied his sails, the seas and winds old
Speaker 1: wranglers took a truce and did him service. He touched
Speaker 1: the ports desired, and for an old aunt, whom the
Speaker 1: Greeks held captive, he brought a Grecian queen, whose youth
Speaker 1: and freshness wrinkles Apollos and make stale the morning. Why
Speaker 1: keep we here the Grecians keep our ant? Is she
Speaker 1: worth keeping? Why she is a pearl whose prize hath
Speaker 1: launched above a thousand ships and turned crowned kings to merchants.
Speaker 1: If you'll have vouch twas wisdom, Paris went, as you
Speaker 1: must needs for you, all cried, go go. If you'll
Speaker 1: confess he brought home worthy prize, as you must needs
Speaker 1: for you, I'll clap your hands and cried inestimable. Why
Speaker 1: do you now the issue of your proper wisdom's rate
Speaker 1: and do a deed that never fortune did beggar the
Speaker 1: estimation which you prized richer than sea and land O
Speaker 1: leftmost base that we have stolen what we do fear
Speaker 1: to keep. But thieves unworthy of a thing so stolen
Speaker 1: that in their country did them that disgrace. We fear
Speaker 1: to warrant in our native place. Cassandra within, cry, Troys, cry.
Speaker 3: What noise, what shriek?
Speaker 1: Is? This tis a mad sister? I do you know
Speaker 1: her voice?
Speaker 2: Cry troyus it is Cassandra.
Speaker 7: Enter, Cassandra raving, Cry Troyans, cry, lend me ten thousand eyes,
Speaker 7: and I will fill them with prophetic tears.
Speaker 2: Peace, sister, Peace.
Speaker 8: Virgins and boys, mid age and wrinkled old soft infancy.
Speaker 8: That nothing canst but cry add to my clamors. Let
Speaker 8: us pay betimes a moiety of that mass of moan
Speaker 8: to come, cry, Troyans, cry, practice your eyes with tears.
Speaker 8: Troy must not be nor goodly illien stand how our
Speaker 8: fire brandt brother peris.
Speaker 9: As all cry Troyan's cry a helen and a row cry,
Speaker 9: cry Troy burns, or else let Helen go.
Speaker 2: Exit now, youthful Troylis, do not these high strains of
Speaker 2: divination and our sister work some touches of remorse? Or
Speaker 2: is your blood so madly heart that no discourse of
Speaker 2: reason nor fear of bad success in a bad cause
Speaker 2: can qualify the same.
Speaker 1: Why, brother hector, we may not think the justness of
Speaker 1: each act such and no other than aveng doth form it.
Speaker 1: No ones deject the courage of our minds. Because Cassandra
Speaker 1: is mad, her brainsick raptures cannot distaste the goodness of
Speaker 1: a quarrel which hath our several honors, all engaged to
Speaker 1: make it great. For my private part, I am no
Speaker 1: more touched than our prime sons, And Jove forbid there
Speaker 1: should be done amongst us such things as might offend
Speaker 1: the weakest spleen to fight for and maintain.
Speaker 4: Else might the world convince of levity as well my
Speaker 4: undertakings as your counsels. But I attest the gods. You
Speaker 4: awful consent gave wings to my propensions, and cut off
Speaker 4: all fears, attending on so dire a project. For what
Speaker 4: alas can these my single arms? What propagnation is in
Speaker 4: one man's valor to stand the push and enmity of
Speaker 4: those this quarrel would excite. Yet I protest, were I
Speaker 4: alone to pass the difficulties, and had as ample power
Speaker 4: as I have, will Paris should ne'er retract what he
Speaker 4: hath done, nor faint in the pursuit.
Speaker 3: Perish you speak like one is sootted on your sweet delights.
Speaker 3: You have the honey still, But this the gall so
Speaker 3: to be valiant is no praise at all.
Speaker 4: Sir, I propose not merely to myself the pleasure such
Speaker 4: a beauty brings with it, but I would have the
Speaker 4: soil of her fair rape white off in honorable keeping her.
Speaker 4: What treason were it to the ransacked queen, disgrace to
Speaker 4: your great words, and shame to me now to deliver
Speaker 4: her possession upon terms of base compulsion? Can it be
Speaker 4: the so degenerate astrain as this should once set footing
Speaker 4: in your generous bosoms. This is not the meanest spirit
Speaker 4: on our party, without a heart to dare or sword
Speaker 4: to draw when Helen is defended, nor none so noble
Speaker 4: whose life were ill bestowed or death unfeigned. Where Helen's
Speaker 4: the subject, then I say, well, may we fight for her,
Speaker 4: whom we know well? The world's large spaces cannot parallel.
Speaker 2: Paris and Troylis. You have both said well, and on
Speaker 2: the cause and question now in hand have glassed, but
Speaker 2: superficially not much. Unlike young men whom Aristotle thought unfit
Speaker 2: to hear moral philosophy, the reasons you alleged do more
Speaker 2: conduce to the hot passion of distempered blood. Than to
Speaker 2: make up a free determination TwixT right and wrong for
Speaker 2: pleasure and revenge. Have ears more deaf than adders to
Speaker 2: the voice of any true decision. Nature craves all dues
Speaker 2: be rendered to their owners. Now what nearer debt in
Speaker 2: all humanity than wife is to the husband. If this
Speaker 2: law of nature be corrupted through affection, and that great
Speaker 2: minds of partial indulgence, to their benumbed wills, resist the same.
Speaker 2: Where is a law in each well ordered nation to
Speaker 2: curb these raging appetites that are most disobedient and refractory.
Speaker 2: If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king, as it
Speaker 2: is known she is, these moral laws of nature and
Speaker 2: of nations speak aloud to have her back returned. Thus
Speaker 2: to persist in doing wrong extenuates not wrong, but makes
Speaker 2: it much more heavy. Hector's opinion is this in way
Speaker 2: of truth? Yet ne'ertheless, my sprightly brethren. I propend to
Speaker 2: you in resolution to keep Helen still, for 'tis a
Speaker 2: cause that hath no mean dependence upon our joint and
Speaker 2: several dignities.
Speaker 1: Why there you touched the life of our design? Were
Speaker 1: it not glory that we more affected than the performance
Speaker 1: of our heaving spleens, I would not wish a drop
Speaker 1: of troy and blood spent more in her defense. But
Speaker 1: worthy Hector, she is a theme of honor and renown,
Speaker 1: a spurt of valiant and magnanimous deeds, whose present courage
Speaker 1: may beat down our foes and fame in time to
Speaker 1: come canonize us. For I presume brave Hector will not
Speaker 1: lose the rich advantage of her promised glory. As smiles
Speaker 1: upon the forehead of this action for the wide world's revenue, I.
Speaker 2: Am yours you, valiant offspring of great Priamus. I have
Speaker 2: a roasting challenge set amongst the dull and factious nobles
Speaker 2: of the Greeks, will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits.
Speaker 2: I was advertised their great General slept whilst emulation in
Speaker 2: the army crept. This I presume will wake him.
Speaker 1: Exillant Scene three, the Grecian camp before the tent of Achilles,
Speaker 1: enter societes soulis.
Speaker 2: How now fair sightes what lost in the labyrinth of
Speaker 2: thy fury? Shall the elephant Ajax carry it? Thus he
Speaker 2: beats me, and I rail at him o worthy satisfaction.
Speaker 2: Would it were otherwise that I could beat him whilst
Speaker 2: he railed at me ha ha ha Ha's foot. I'll
Speaker 2: learned to conjure and raised devils. But I'll see some
Speaker 2: issue of my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a rare engineer.
Speaker 2: If Troy be not taken till these two undermine it,
Speaker 2: the walls will stand till they fall of themselves. Oh,
Speaker 2: thou great thunder darter of Olympus, forget that thou art jove,
Speaker 2: the king of gods and mercury, lose all the serpentine
Speaker 2: craft of thy Cadusius, if ye take not that little, little,
Speaker 2: less than little wit from them that they have, which
Speaker 2: short armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant scarce, it
Speaker 2: will not, in circumvention deliver a fly from a spider
Speaker 2: without drawing their massy irons and cutting the web. After
Speaker 2: this the vengeance on the whole camp, or rather the
Speaker 2: Neapolitan bone ache let me thinks it's the curse depending
Speaker 2: on those that war for a plaquet. I have said
Speaker 2: my prayers and devil envy, saying, men, where how my
Speaker 2: lord Achilles.
Speaker 1: And Patroclus, who's there?
Speaker 3: Torcieties? Good societies come in and rail.
Speaker 2: If I could remember the guilt counterfeit, Thou wouldst not
Speaker 2: have slipped out of my contemplation. But it is no
Speaker 2: matter thyself upon thyself the common curse of mankind, folly
Speaker 2: and ignorance, be thine in great revenue. Heaven bless thee
Speaker 2: from a tutor and discipline come not near thee. Let
Speaker 2: thy let be thy direction till thy death. Then if
Speaker 2: she that lays the out says thou art a fair course,
Speaker 2: I'll be sworn and sworn apart it. She never shrouded
Speaker 2: any but lasars? Amen, where's Achilles?
Speaker 3: What art thou devote?
Speaker 2: Was star in prayer? Aye the heavens hear me?
Speaker 1: Amen, enter Achilles? Who's there?
Speaker 3: Societies? My lord?
Speaker 2: Where? Where?
Speaker 10: Oh where art thou come? Why my cheese, my digestion?
Speaker 10: Why hast thou not served thyself into my table? So
Speaker 10: many meals come?
Speaker 2: What's agamemnon, thy commander? Achilles? Then tell me Petroclus, what Achilles?
Speaker 3: Thy lord? Societies? Then tell me, I pray thee? What's societies?
Speaker 2: I know are? Petruclus? Then tell me Petruclus what art thou?
Speaker 3: Thou must tell that?
Speaker 2: Noest, oh tell tell I'll decline the whole question Agamemnon
Speaker 2: commands Achilles. Achilles is my lord. I am Petruclis, Noah,
Speaker 2: and Petroclus is a fool, You rascal, peace, fool, I
Speaker 2: have not done.
Speaker 1: He is a privileged man, precede the Scietes.
Speaker 2: Agamemnon is a fool, Achilles is a fool, The Psychees
Speaker 2: is a fool, and as afore said, Petroclis is a fool.
Speaker 2: Dry this come, Agamemnon is a fool to offer to
Speaker 2: command Achilles. Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon.
Speaker 2: Versieite is a fool to serve such a fool, And
Speaker 2: this Petruclis is a fool. Positive, Why am I a fool?
Speaker 2: Make that demand of the creator. It suffices me, thou art,
Speaker 2: look you who.
Speaker 1: Comes here, enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Nestor, Diomedes, Ajax, and Calcus,
Speaker 1: Come Pachoclus, I'll speak with nobody. Come in with me,
Speaker 1: societies exit.
Speaker 2: Here is such patchery, such juggling, and such knavery all
Speaker 2: the argement is a whore and a cockled a good
Speaker 2: quarrel to draw emulous factions, and bleed to death upon
Speaker 2: now the dry Serpigo on the subject and war, and
Speaker 2: letchery confound all.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 2: Where is Achilles.
Speaker 3: Within his tent but ill disposed?
Speaker 2: My Lord, let it be known to him that we
Speaker 2: are here. He sat am messing jerse, and we lay
Speaker 2: by our appertainings visiting of him. Let him be told so,
Speaker 2: lest perchance he think we dare not move the question
Speaker 2: of our place, or know not what we are.
Speaker 3: I shall say so to him exit.
Speaker 1: We saw him at the opening of his tent. He
Speaker 1: is not sick, Yes, lion sick shake of proud heart.
Speaker 1: You may call it melancholy if you will favor the men,
Speaker 1: But by my aid tis pride. But why why let
Speaker 1: him show us a cause? Per word? My lord takes
Speaker 1: Agamemnon aside.
Speaker 4: What moves Ajx does to bey at him?
Speaker 1: Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.
Speaker 4: Who his sights here in? Who will Ajax lack matter
Speaker 4: if he have lost his argument?
Speaker 1: No, you see he is his argument that has his argument,
Speaker 1: Achilles all the better.
Speaker 4: Their fraction is more our wish than their affection. But
Speaker 4: it was a strong composure. A fool could disunite.
Speaker 1: The amity that wisdom. It's not folly may easily untie
Speaker 1: re enter Patroclus. Here comes Beetroclus. No Achilles with him
Speaker 1: the elephant hath joins, but none for courtesy. His legs
Speaker 1: are legs for necessity, not for flexture.
Speaker 3: Achilles bids me say, he is much sorry if anything
Speaker 3: more than your sport and pleasure did move your greatness
Speaker 3: and this noble state to call upon him. He hopes
Speaker 3: it is no other but for your health and your
Speaker 3: digestion's sake. And after dinner's breath.
Speaker 2: Hear you, Patroclus. We are too well acquainted with these answers.
Speaker 2: But his ev Asian winged thus swift with scorn, cannot
Speaker 2: outfly our apprehensions. Much attribute he hath, and much the
Speaker 2: reason why we ascribe it to him. Yet all his virtues,
Speaker 2: not virtuously on his own part beheld, do in our
Speaker 2: eyes begin to lose their gloss. Yea like fair fruit
Speaker 2: in an unwholesome dish, are like to rot untasted. Go
Speaker 2: and tell him we come to speak with him, and
Speaker 2: you shall not sin if you do. Say we think
Speaker 2: him over proud and under honest in self assumption, greater
Speaker 2: than in the note of judgment, and worthier than himself.
Speaker 2: Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on disguise the
Speaker 2: holy strength of their command, and under right in an
Speaker 2: observing kind, his humorous predominance. YEA, watch his course, and
Speaker 2: tire his ebbs and flows, as if the passage and
Speaker 2: whole stream of this commencement rode on his tide. Go
Speaker 2: tell him this, and add that if he overhauld his
Speaker 2: price so much, will none of him. But let him,
Speaker 2: like an engine not portable, lie under this report bring
Speaker 2: action hither. This cannot go to war a stirring dwarf.
Speaker 2: We do allowance give before a sleeping giant. Tell him
Speaker 2: so I.
Speaker 3: Shall, and bring his answer presently exit.
Speaker 2: In second voice, will not be satisfied. We come to
Speaker 2: speak with him, ulysses, Enter.
Speaker 1: You exit, Ulysses.
Speaker 2: Oh easy more than another, no more than what he
Speaker 2: thinks he is?
Speaker 1: Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks
Speaker 1: himself a better man than I am?
Speaker 2: No question?
Speaker 1: Will you subscribe?
Speaker 2: Be thor and sy ease, No noble, ajax, You are
Speaker 2: as strong as valiant, as wise, no less noble, much
Speaker 2: more gentle, and all together more tractable.
Speaker 1: Or should it may be proud? How did pride grow?
Speaker 1: I know not what Pride.
Speaker 2: Is your mind, is the clearer ajax, and your virtues
Speaker 2: the pharaoh. He that is proud eats up himself. Pride
Speaker 2: is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
Speaker 2: And whatever praises itself, but in the deed devours the deed.
Speaker 2: In the praise re enter.
Speaker 1: Ulysses, I do eight a proud man, as I do
Speaker 1: eight the engendering of toes nestor aside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yet he loves himself is not strange?
Speaker 1: Achilles will not to the field tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What's his excuse?
Speaker 1: He doth rely on none, but carries on the stream
Speaker 1: of his dispose without observance or respect of any in
Speaker 1: will peculiar and in self admission.
Speaker 2: Why will he not, upon our fair request, untent his
Speaker 2: person and share the air with us?
Speaker 1: Things small is nothing for request's sake? Only he makes
Speaker 1: important possessed. He is with greatness and speaks not to himself,
Speaker 1: but with a pride that quarrels itself, breath imagined worth,
Speaker 1: holds in his blood such swollen and hot discourse that
Speaker 1: TwixT his mental and his active parts kingdomed Achilles and
Speaker 1: commotion rages and batters down himself. What should I say
Speaker 1: he is so plaguely proud that the death tokens of
Speaker 1: it cry no recovery.
Speaker 2: Let Ajax go to him. Dare Lord, go you and
Speaker 2: greet him in his tent, Tis said, he holds you
Speaker 2: well and will be led at your request a little
Speaker 2: from himself.
Speaker 1: Oh, agamenon, let it not be so. We'll consecrate the
Speaker 1: steps that Ajax makes when they go from Achilles. Shall
Speaker 1: the proud lord that basts his arrogance with his own
Speaker 1: seam and never suffers matter of the world enter his
Speaker 1: thoughts save such as doth revolve and ruminate himself. Shall
Speaker 1: he be worshiped of that we hold an idol more
Speaker 1: than he No. This thrice worthy and right valiant Lord
Speaker 1: shall not so stale his palm nobly acquired, nor by
Speaker 1: my will a subjugate his merit as amply titled as
Speaker 1: Achilleses by going to Achilles, that were to ENLiGHT his
Speaker 1: fat or buty pride and add more colds to cancer.
Speaker 1: When he burns with entertaining great hyperion with his lord,
Speaker 1: go to him abid in, saying thanday killes. Go to
Speaker 1: him nestor aside.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, well, he rubs the vein of him Diomedes aside.
Speaker 2: And how his silence drinks up this applause.
Speaker 1: If I go to him with my armed fish or
Speaker 1: passion over.
Speaker 2: Their face, Oh no, you shall not go.
Speaker 1: And I'll be proud with me. I'll pease his pride.
Speaker 1: Let me go to him, not for the worth that
Speaker 1: hangs upon a quarrel, a paltry, insolent fellow. Nestor aside,
Speaker 1: how he describes himself. Can he not be sociable? Ulysses aside,
Speaker 1: the raven hides blackness. I'll let his humorous blood, Agamemnon aside.
Speaker 2: He will be the physician, that should be the patient.
Speaker 1: And all men were of my mind, Ulysses aside, wit
Speaker 1: would be out of fashion. I should not bear it,
Speaker 1: So I should eat words first, shall pride carry it?
Speaker 1: Nestor aside, And twould you'd carry half, Ulysses aside, I
Speaker 1: would have ten shares. I will need him. I'll make
Speaker 1: him supple. Nestor aside, he not yet threw warm, forced
Speaker 1: him with raises pour in pour in his ambition is dry,
Speaker 1: Ulysses to Agamemnon, my lord, you feed too much on
Speaker 1: this dislike our noble general, do not do.
Speaker 2: So you must prepare to fight without Achilles.
Speaker 1: Why tis this naming of him does him harm? Here
Speaker 1: is a man, but tis before his face I will
Speaker 1: be silent.
Speaker 4: Wherefore should you so? He not emulous? His achilleses know.
Speaker 1: The whole world. He is as valiant a horse and dog,
Speaker 1: which shall poulterer with us. Thus would ye were a
Speaker 1: troyon what a vice were it in Egypt?
Speaker 2: Now? If he were proud or covetous of praise, ay,
Speaker 2: or surly born, or strange or self affected.
Speaker 1: Thank the heavens, Lord, Thou art of sweet composure. Praise
Speaker 1: him that gath thee, she that gave thee suck. Famed
Speaker 1: be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature thrice fame beyond,
Speaker 1: beyond all erudition. But he that disciplined thine arms to fight.
Speaker 1: Let Mars divide eternity in twain and give him half.
Speaker 1: And for thy vigor bull bearing milo addition, yield to
Speaker 1: snewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom, which, like
Speaker 1: a born a pale ashore, confines thy spacious and dilated parts.
Speaker 1: Here is nestor instructed by the antiquary times. He must
Speaker 1: he is. He cannot but be wise, but pardon father Nestor,
Speaker 1: were your days as green as Ajax? Your brain's so tempered,
Speaker 1: you should not have the eminence of him. But be
Speaker 1: as Ajax. Shall I call you, father ny, my good son, be.
Speaker 2: Ruled by him, Lord Ajax.
Speaker 1: There is no tarrying here. The heart Achilles keeps thicket.
Speaker 1: Please at our great general to call together all his
Speaker 1: state of war. Fresh kings are come to Troy tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We must, with all our men of power stand fast.
Speaker 1: And here is a lord, come night from east to
Speaker 1: west and cull their flower. Ajac shall cope the best go.
Speaker 2: We to council. Let Achilles sleep light, boats sail swift,
Speaker 2: though greater Hux draw deep exallant.
Speaker 1: End of Act two