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Troilus and Cressida

Act IV, Scene 1

Troy. A street.
 
[Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a torch; from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES, and others, with torches]
 
PARIS
       T   T   T     T   T    T
      See ho, who | is that there?
 
DEIPHOBUS
                                    ,             ,       ,    ->
                                   It is || the Lord | Aene|as.
 
AENEAS
        2       ,       ,         ,
      Is the prince | there in | person?
          ,        ,       ,            ,    ,
      Had I | so good | occa|sion to / lie long
       .  T     T    T       ,      2       x       ,        2->
      As you prince Pa|ris, noth|ing but heaven|ly bus||iness,
              ,        ,     ,           ,     ,
      Should rob | my bed-|mate of | my comp|any.
 
DIOMEDES
              ,         ,           ,        ,       ,    2->
      That's my | mind too:| good* mor|row Lord | Aene||as.
 
PARIS
         ,   2     ,        ,       ,          ,
      A val|iant Greek | Aene|as, take | his hand,
       ,             ,        ,           ,         ,
      Witness | the pro|cess of | your speech | within;
            ,          ,  x          ,          ,
      You told | how* Di|omed in a whole week by days  ????
            ,          ,         ,
      Did haunt | you in | the field.
 
AENEAS
        ,              ,   2    ,
      Health to | you val|iant sir,  (tri with prev)
       ,        ,    ,                 ,        ,
      During | all ques/tion of | the gent|le truce:
            ,        ,          ,          ,          x
      But when | I meet | you armed,| as black | defiance,
           ,           ,         ,        ,    ,
      As heart | can think,| or cour|age ex|ecute.
 
DIOMEDES
           ,        ,       ,  3  3   ,
      The one | and oth|er Di|omed^embra|ces,
      <- ,        ,          ,         ,          T   T     T
        Our || bloods are | now in | calm; and | so long health:
            ,        ,         ,       ,        ,
      But when | conten|tion, and | occa|sion meet,
           ,           ,         ,       ,          ,
      By Jove,| I'll play | the hunt|er for | thy life,
            ,         ,          ,         ,    ,
      With all | my force,| pursuit | and pol|icy.
 
AENEAS
            ,            ,       ,      ,          ,
      And thou | shalt hunt | a li|on that | will fly
          2      ,      ,                ,   ,       ,
      With his face | backward,| in hu/mane gent|leness:
       ,             ,     ,          ,         ,
      Welcome | to Troy;| now by | Anchi|ses' life,
       ,            ,        ,        ,        ,
      Welcome | indeed:| by Ven|us' hand | I swear,
          ,       ,          ,         ,        ,
      No man | alive | can love | in such | a sort,
            ,          ,          ,          ,    2    ,
      The thing | he means | to kill,| more ex|cellently.
 
DIOMEDES
          ,      ,       ,           ,      ,
      We sym|pathize.| Jove let | Aene|as live
        ,   2       ,           ,        ,         ,
      (If to my | sword his | fate be | not the | glory)
          ,             ,     ,       ,        ,
      A thous|and com/plete cour|ses of | the sun,
           ,         ,  2     ,      ,         ,
      But in | mine^em|ulous hon|or let | him die:
            ,       ,         ,           ,       ,       o ->
      With eve|ry joint | a wound,| and that | tomor||row.
 
AENEAS
           ,         ,        ,    oo
      We know | each oth|er well.|
 
DIOMEDES
          ,         ,         ,         ,        ,
      We do,| and long | to know | each oth|er worse.
 
PARIS
        ,    2        ,        ,         ,         ,
      This is the | most, de|spiteful | gentle | greeting;
           ,         ,        ,          ,           x
      The nob|lest hate|ful love,| that ere | I heard of.
            ,          ,        ,
      What bus|iness lord | so ear|ly?
 
AENEAS
      <- ,         ,      ,             ,         ,    T   T   T
         I | was sent || for to | the king;| but why,| I know not.
 
PARIS
           ,         ,           ,      2     ,            ,
      His pur|pose meets | you; it | was to bring | this Greek
          ,          ,           ,         ,       ,
      To Cal|chas' house;| and there | to rend|er him,
       ,     2     ,       ,            ,      ,
      For the en|freed An|tenor,| the fair | Cressid:
              ,          ,     ,       ,          ,
      Let's^have | your comp|any;| or if | you please,
        T     T    .    x        ,             ,   ,
      Haste there before us.| I const|antly / do think
        ,    2        ,          ,         ,          ,
      (Or *rather | call my | thought a | certain | knowledge)
          ,         ,       ,        ,         ,
      My broth|er Troi|lus lod|ges there | tonight.
        ,               ,          ,        ,         ,
      Rouse him,| and give | him note | of our | approach,
                   ,    ,     ,         ,       ,
      With the / whole qual|ity | whereof,| I fear
       ,      2       ,      ,
      We shall be | much un|welcome.
 
AENEAS
                                       ,   2     ,
                                     That I as|sure you:
        ,            ,        ,           ,           ,
      Troilus | had rath|er Troy | were borne | to Greece,
             ,        ,            ,
      Than Cres|sid borne | from Troy.
 
PARIS
                                                  ,   ,
                                      There is / no help:
             x        2  ,     3  3      ,           ,        ,
      The bitter | disposi|tion of the time | will have | it so.
       T   T     T      ,          2
      On lord, we'll | follow | you.
 
AENEAS
                                           ,        ,
                                     Good mor|row, all.
 
[Exit with Servant]
 
PARIS
            ,         x      x               ,         ,
      And tell | me noble | Diomed;| faith^tell | me true,
       x     2        ,         T     T   T       ,
      Even in the | soul of | sound good fel|lowship,
       ,                ,        Tx     T   T       ,
      Who in | your thoughts | merits fair He|len most?
          ,        ,    ,
      Myself,| or Me|nela|us?
 
DIOMEDES
                                ,       ,
                              Both | alike.
            x       ,         ,          ,           ,
      He merits | well to | have her,| that doth | seek her,
            ,      ,      ,   ,    2       ,
      Not* mak|ing an|y scru|ple of her | soilure,
             ,        ,         ,          ,           ,
      With such | a hell | of pain,| and world | of charge.
           ,         ,         ,     ,      2      ,
      And you | as well | to keep | her, that de|fend her,
       ,   ,   2            ,         ,       ,
      Not pa/lating the | taste of | her dis|honor,
             ,       ,        ,          ,            ,
      With such | a cos|tly loss | of wealth | and friends:
           ,       ,        ,                 ,    ,
      He like | a pu|ling cuck|old, would / drink up
            ,          ,              ,   ,       ,
      The lees | and dregs | of a / flat ta|med piece:
       T    T  .  T        ,        ,         ,
      You like a le|cher, out | of who|rish loins,
             ,           ,      ,            ,     ,
      Are pleased | to breed | out your | inhe|ritors:
        T    Tx      T             ,           ,          ,
      Both merits poised,| each^weighs | nor less | nor more,
           ,       ,         ,   2   ,        ,
      But he | as he,| the heav|ier for | a whore.
 
PARIS
       ,         ,    x                  ,      ,
      You are | too bitter / to your | country|woman.
 
DIOMEDES
               x      ,         ,         ,        ,
      She's bitter | to her | country:| hear me | Paris,
           ,       ,       ,            ,       ,
      For eve|ry false | drop in | her baw|dy veins,
         ,           ,           ,         ,       ,      2->
      A Gre|cian's life | hath sunk:| for eve|ry scru||ple
          ,        ,    ,      ,    2     ,
      Of her | contam|ina|ted car|rion weight,
         ,        ,           ,       ,                 ,
      A Tro|yan hath | been slain.| Since she | could speak,
                  ,    x      ,   2      T    T      T
      She hath / not given | so many | good words breath,
          ,            ,           ,       ,          ,
      As for | her, Greeks | and Troy|ans suf|fered death.
 
PARIS
             ,   ,         ,        ,        ,
      Fair* Di|omed,| you do | as chap|men* do,
            ,           ,           ,        ,        ,
      Dispraise | the thing | that you | desire | to buy:
           ,       ,         ,          ,        ,
      But we | in sil|ence hold | this vir|tue well;
             ,         ,          ,       ,         ,
      We'll^but | commend,| what we | intend | to sell.
        T    T   T    ___
      Here lies our | way.   \\
 
[Exeunt]

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