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The same. Pandarus' orchard.
[Enter PANDARUS and Troilus's Boy, meeting]
PANDARUS
How now, where's thy master, at my cousin Cressida's?
BOY
No sir, he stays for you to conduct him thither.
PANDARUS
O here he comes: How now, how now?
TROILUS
Sirrah walk off.
[Exit Boy]
PANDARUS
Have you seen my cousin?
TROILUS
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No Pan/darus:| I stalk | about | her door
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Like a strange soul | upon | the Styg|ian banks
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Staying for | waftage.| O be | thou my | Charon,
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And give | me swift | transpor|tance to |
those^fields,
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Where I | may wal|low in | the lil|y beds
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Proposed | for the de|server.| O gentle |
Pandarus,
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From Cup|id's shoul|der pluck | his paint|ed
wings,
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And fly | with me | to Cres|sid. \\
PANDARUS
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Walk here / in the | orchard,| I'll bring | her
straight.
[Exit]
TROILUS
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I am gid|dy; ex|pecta|tion whirls | me round,
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The ima|gina|ry re|lish is / so sweet,
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That it | enchants | my sense:| what will | it be
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When that | the wat|ery pa|late tastes | indeed
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Love's thrice repured| nectar?| Death I | fear me
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Swooning de|struction,| or some | joy too fine,
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Too subtle,| potent,| and too | sharp in |
sweetness,
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For the | capa|city | of my ru|der powers;
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I fear | it much,| and I | do fear | besides,
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That I | shall lose | distinc|tion in | my joys,
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As doth | a bat|tle, when | they charge | on
heaps
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The en|emy fly|ing. \\
PANDARUS
She's making her ready, she'll come straight; you must be witty now, she
does so blush, and fetches her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a
sprite: I'll fetch her; It is the prettiest villain, she fetches her breath
as short as a new-tane sparrow.
[Exit]
TROILUS
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Even such^a | passion | doth em|brace my | bosom:
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My heart | beats thick/er than | a fev|erous
pulse,
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And all | my powers | do their | bestow|ing lose,
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Like^vas|salage | at un|awares | encoun||tering
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The eye | of maj|esty. \\
[Enter PANDARUS with CRESSIDA]
PANDARUS
Come, come, what need you blush? Shame's a baby; here she is now, swear the
oaths now to her, that you have sworn to me. What are you gone again, you
must be watched ere you be made tame, must you? Come your ways, come your
ways, and you draw backward we'll put you in the fills: Why do you not speak
to her? Come draw this curtain, and let's see your picture. Alas the day,
how loath you are to offend daylight? And 'twere dark you’d close sooner:
So, so, rub on, and kiss the mistress; how now, a kiss in fee-farm? Build
there carpenter, the air is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere
I part you. The falcon, as the tercel, for all the ducks in the river: go to
go to.
TROILUS
You have bereft me of all words lady.
PANDARUS
Words pay no debts; give her deeds: but she'll bereave you of the deeds too,
if she call your activity in question: what billing again? Here's in witness
whereof the parties interchangeably. Come in, come in, I'll go get a fire.
[Exit]
CRESSIDA
Will you walk in my lord?
TROILUS
O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus?
CRESSIDA
Wished my lord? The gods grant? O my lord.
TROILUS
What should they grant? What makes this pretty abruption: what too curious
dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love?
CRESSIDA
More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.
TROILUS
Fears make devils of cherubims, they never see truly.
CRESSIDA
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing, than blind
reason, stumbling without fear: to fear the worst, oft cures the worse.
TROILUS
Oh let my lady apprehend no fear,
In all Cupid's pageant there is presented no monster.
CRESSIDA
Nor nothing monstrous neither?
TROILUS
Nothing but our undertakings, when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat
rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
enough, than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the
monstruosity in love lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution
confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
CRESSIDA
They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet
reserve an ability that they never perform: vowing more than the perfection
of ten; and discharging less than the tenth part of one. They that have the
voice of lions, and the act of hares: are they not monsters?
TROILUS
Are there such? Such are not we: praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we
prove: our head shall go bare till merit crown it: no perfection in
reversion shall have a praise in present: we will not name desert before his
birth, and being born his addition shall be humble: few words to fair faith.
Troilus shall be such to Cressid, as what envy can say worst, shall be a
mock for his truth; and what truth can speak truest, not truer than Troilus.
CRESSIDA
Will you walk in my lord?
[Enter PANDARUS]
PANDARUS
What blushing still? Have you not done talking yet?
CRESSIDA
Well uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.
PANDARUS
I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you, you'll give him me: Be
true to my lord, if he flinch, chide me for it.
TROILUS
You know now your hostages: your uncle's word and my firm faith.
PANDARUS
Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred though they be long ere they
are wooed, they are constant being won: they are burrs I can tell you,
they'll stick where they are thrown.
CRESSIDA
Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart: Prince Troilus I have loved
you night and day, for many weary months.
TROILUS
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Why was | my Cres|sid then | so hard | to win?
CRESSIDA
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Hard to | seem^won:| but I | was won | my lord
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With the / first glance;| that ev|er pard|on me,
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If I con|fess much,/ you will | play the |
tyrant:
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I love | you now,| but not | till now | so much
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But I | might mast|er it; in // faith I lie:
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My thoughts | were like^/unbrid|led child|ren
grown
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Too headstrong | for their moth|er: see | we*
fools,
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Why have | I blabbed:| who shall | be true | to
us
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When we | are so | unsec/ret to | ourselves?
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But though | I loved | you well,| I wooed | you
not,
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And yet | good* faith | I wished | myself | a
man;
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Or that / we wom|en had / men's priv|ilege
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Of speak|ing first.| Sweet, bid*| me hold | my
tongue,
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For in | this rap|ture I | shall sure|ly speak
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The thing | I shall | repent:| see*, see,| your
sil||ence
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Com|ing in dumb|ness, from | my weak|ness draws
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My soul | of couns|el from | me. Stop | my mouth.
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And shall,| albeit | sweet* mus|ic is|sues
thence.
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Pretty | in faith. (pickup)
CRESSIDA
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My lord,| I do | beseech | you pard|on me,
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'Twas not | my pur|pose thus | to beg | a kiss:
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I am | ashamed;| O heavens, what | have I done!
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For this | time will | I take | my leave | my
lord.
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Your leave sweet | Cressid? (picked up)
PANDARUS
Leave: and you take leave till tomorrow morning.
CRESSIDA
Pray you content you.
TROILUS
What offends you lady?
CRESSIDA
Sir, mine own company.
TROILUS
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You can|not shun | yourself.
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Let me go | and try:
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I have | a kind | of self | resides | with you;
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But an / unkind | self, that | itself | will
leave,
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To be | anoth|er's fool.| Where is | my wit?
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I would | be gone:| I speak | I know | not what.
TROILUS
Well know they what they speak, that speaks so wisely.
CRESSIDA
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Perchance | my lord,| I show | more craft | than
love,
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And fell | so round/ly to a | large con|fession,
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To ang|le for | your thoughts:| but you | are
wise,
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Or else | you love | not, for to | be wise | and
love
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Exceeds man's might;| that dwells | with gods |
above.
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O that I | thought it | could be | in a | woman:
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As if | it can,| I will | presume | in you,
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To feed | for aye | her ramp | and flames | of
love.
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To keep | her con|stancy | in plight | and youth,
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Outliv|ing beaut|y's out|ward, with | a mind
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That doth | renew | swifter | than blood |
decays:
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Or that per|suasion | could but | thus con|vince
me,
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That my | inte|grity | and truth | to you,
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Might be | affront|ed with | the match | and
weight
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Of such | a win|nowed pu|rity | in love:
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How were | I then | uplift|ed! But | alas,
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I am | as true,| as truth's | simpli|city,
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And simp|ler than | the in|fancy | of truth.
CRESSIDA
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In that | I'll war | with you.
TROILUS
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O vir|tuous fight,
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When right | with right | wars who*| shall be /
most right:
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True swains in love,| shall in | the world | to
come
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Approve | their truths | by Troi|lus, when |
their rhymes,
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Full of protest,| of oath | and big | compare;
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Want si|miles,| truth tired / with ite|ration,
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As true | as steel,| as plan|tage to | the moon:
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As sun | to day:| as tur|tle to | her mate:
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As iron | to a|damant:| as earth | to the
cen||ter:
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Yet | after^all | compa|risons | of truth,
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(As truth's | authen|tic auth|or to be | cited)
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As true | as Troi|lus, shall / crown up | the
verse,
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And sanc|tify | the num|bers.
CRESSIDA
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Prophet | may you be: ??
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If I | be false,| or swerve | a hair | from
truth,
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When time | is old | and hath | forgot | itself:
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When wat|erdrops | have worn | the stones | of
Troy;
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And blind | obliv|ion swal|lowed ci|ties up;
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And migh|ty states | character|less are | grated
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To dus|ty noth|ing; yet | let me/mory,
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From false | to false,| among false maids | in
love,
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Upbraid | my falsehood,| when they've | said^as
false,
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As air,| as wat|er, as wind,| or san|dy earth;
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As fox | to lamb;| as wolf | to hei|fer's calf;
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Pard to | the hind,| or step|dame to | her son;
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Yea, let^them | say, to | stick the | heart of |
falsehood*,
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As false | as Cres|sid. \\
PANDARUS
Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it, I'll be the witness here I hold
your hand: here my cousin's, if ever you prove false one to another, since I
have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between
be called to the world's end after my name: call them all Pandars; let all
constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids, and all
brokers-between, Pandars: say, amen.
TROILUS
Amen.
CRESSIDA
Amen.
PANDARUS
Amen.
Whereupon I will show you a chamber, which bed, because it shall not speak
of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away.
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And Cupid grant all,| tongue-tied maid|ens here,
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Bed, cham/ber, and | Pandar,| to provide | this
gear.
[Exeunt]