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The same. Pandarus' house.
[Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA]
PANDARUS
Be moderate, be moderate.
CRESSIDA
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Why tell you | me of | mode|ration?
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The grief | is fine,| full per/fect that | I
taste,
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And no | less in | a sense | as strong
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As that || which cau|seth it.| How can | I
mo|derate it?
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If I could | tempo|rize with | my af|fection,
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Or brew it | to a | weak and | colder | palate,
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The like | allay|ment could | I give | my grief:
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My love | admits | no qual|ify|ing cross;
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No more | my grief,| in such | a pre|cious loss.
PANDARUS
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Here, here, here | he comes,| a sweet | duck.
CRESSIDA
O Troilus, Troilus!
[Embracing him]
PANDARUS
What a pair of spectacles is here? Let me embrace too: oh heart, as the
goodly saying is; O heart, heavy heart, why sighst thou without breaking?
Where he answers again, because thou canst not ease thy smart by friendship,
nor by speaking: there was never a truer rhyme; let us cast away nothing,
for we may live to have need of such a verse: we see it, we see it: How now
lambs?
TROILUS
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Cressid:| I love | thee in so | strained a |
purity;
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That the bles|sed gods,| as ang|ry with my |
fancy,
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More bright in zeal,| than the | devo|tion which
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Cold lips blow | to their de|ities:| take thee ||
from me.
CRESSIDA
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Have the gods | envy?
PANDARUS
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Aye, aye, aye,|| aye; 'tis | too plain a case.
CRESSIDA
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And is | it true || that I | must go | from Troy?
TROILUS
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A hate|ful truth.
CRESSIDA
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What, and from | Troilus | too?
TROILUS
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From | Troy and | Troilus.
CRESSIDA
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Is it pos|sible?
TROILUS
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And sud|denly,| where in|jury* of chance
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Puts back leave-|taking,| justles | roughly || by
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All | time of pause; rude|ly beguiles | our lips
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Of all | rejoin|der: for|cibly | prevents
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Our locked | embra|sures; strang|les our / dear
vows,
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Even in | the birth | of our / own lab|oring
breath.
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We two,/ that with | so ma|ny thous|and sighs
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Did buy | each^oth|er, must poorly sell ourselves
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With the rude | brevi|ty and discharge | of our
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Inju|rious time;| now with | a rob|ber's haste
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Crams his rich thiev|ery up,| he knows | not^how.
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As ma|ny fare|wells as | be stars | in heaven,
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With dis/tinct breath,| and consigned | kisses |
to them,
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He fum|bles up | into | a loose | adieu;
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And scants | us with | a sing|le fa|mished kiss,
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Distas|ted with | the salt | of brok|en tears.
AENEAS
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My lord,| is the la|dy rea|dy? \\
TROILUS
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Hark, you | are called:| some say | the Gen|ius
so
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Cries, come / to him | that inst|antly | must
die.
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Bid them | have pa|tience: she | shall come |
anon.
PANDARUS
Where are my tears? Rain, to lay this wind, or my heart will be blown up by
the root.
[Exit]
CRESSIDA
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I must | then to the | Grecians?
TROILUS
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No rem|edy.
CRESSIDA
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A woe|ful Cres|sid 'mongst | the mer|ry Greeks.
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When shall | we see | again? \\
TROILUS
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Hear me | my love:| be thou | but true | of
heart.
CRESSIDA
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I* true?| How* now?| What wick|ed deem | is this?
TROILUS
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Nay, we must^|use ex|postu|lation | kindly,
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For^it | is part|ing from | us: \\
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I speak | not be,| thou true,| as fear|ing thee:
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For I | will throw | my glove | to Death |
himself,
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That there's | no mac|ula|tion in | thy heart:
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But be | thou true,| say I,| to fash|ion in
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My se|quent pro|testa|tion: be | thou true,
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And I | will see | thee. \\
CRESSIDA
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O you | shall be | exposed,| my lord | to
dan||gers
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As in|finite,| as im|minent:| but I'll || be
true.
TROILUS
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And I'll grow friend | with dang|er;
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Wear || this sleeve. \\
CRESSIDA
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And you | this glove. \\
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When shall I | see you? \\
TROILUS
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I will | corrupt | the Gre|cian sent|inels,
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To give | thee night|ly vis|ita|tion.
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But yet | be true.
CRESSIDA
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O heavens:| be true | again?
TROILUS
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Hear while I | speak it;| love:|
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The Gre|cian youths | are full | of qual|ity,
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Their lov|ing well | composed,| with gifts | of
na||ture,
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Flow|ing and swel|ling ore | with arts | and
exercise: ????
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How no|velties | may move,| and parts | with
per||son,
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Alas,| a kind | of god|ly jeal|ousy;
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Which I | beseech | you call | a vir|tuous sin:
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Makes me | afeard.
CRESSIDA
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O heavens,| you love | me not!
TROILUS
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Die I | a vil|lain then: \\
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In this | I do not | call your | faith in |
question
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So main|ly as | my merit:| I can|not sing,
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Nor heel | the high | lavolt;| nor sweet|en talk;
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Nor play | at sub|tle games;| fair* vir|tues all;
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To which | the Gre|cians are most | prompt and |
pregnant:
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But I | can tell | that in / each grace | of
these,
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There lurks | a still | and dumb-|discour|sive
devil,
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That tempts | most cun/ningly:| but be | not
temp||ted.
CRESSIDA
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Do | you think | I will:|
TROILUS
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No,|| but some|thing may | be done | that we |
will not:
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And some|times we | are dev|ils to | ourselves,
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When we | will tempt | the frail|ty of | our
powers,
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Presu|ming on | their change|ful po|tency.
AENEAS
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Nay, good*| my lord?
TROILUS
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Come kiss, and let | us part.
PARIS
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Brother | Troilus?
TROILUS
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Good | brother | come you | hither,
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And bring | Aene|as and | the Gre|cian with ||
you.
CRESSIDA
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My lord,| will you | be true?
TROILUS
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Who I?| Alas | it is | my vice,| my fault:
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Whiles^oth|ers fish | with craft | for great |
opin||ion,
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I,| with great truth,| catch^mere | simpli|city;
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Whilst some | with cun|ning gild | their cop|per
crowns,
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With truth | and plain|ness I | do wear |
mine^bare:
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Fear not my | truth; the | moral of | my wit
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Is plain | and true,| there's^all | the reach |
of it.
[Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, DEIPHOBUS, and DIOMEDES]
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Welcome | Sir Di|omed,| here is the | lady
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Which for | Ante|nor, we | deliv|er you.
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At the / port (lord)| I'll give | her to | thy
hand,
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And by | the way | possess | thee what | she is.
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Entreat | her fair;| and by | my soul,| fair*
Greek,
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If ere | thou stand | at mer|cy of | my sword,
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Name Cres/sid, and | thy life | shall be | as
safe
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As Pri|am is in | Ilion?
DIOMEDES
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Fair*| Lady | Cressid,
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So please | you, save | the thanks | this prince
| expects:
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The lus|ter in | your eye,| heaven in | your
cheek,
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Pleads your | fair vi/sage, and | to Di|omed
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You shall be | mistress,| and com|mand him |
wholly.
TROILUS
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Grecian,| thou dost | not use | me court|eously,
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To shame | the zeal | of my | peti|tion towards,
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I prai/sing her.| I tell | thee lord | of Greece:
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She is as | far high-soa|ring ore | thy
prai||ses,
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As thou | unworth|y to be | called her | servant:
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I charge | thee use | her well,| even for | my
charge;
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For by the | dreadful | Pluto,| if thou | dost
not,
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(Though the / great bulk | Achil|les be | thy
guard)
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I'll cut | thy throat.
DIOMEDES
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Oh be | not moved | Prince^Troilus;
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Let me be | privi|leged by my | place and |
message,
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To be | a spea|ker free?| When^I | am hence,
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I'll ans|wer to | my lust:| and know | my lord;
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I'll noth|ing do | on charge:| to her / own worth
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She shall | be prized:| but that | you say,| be
it so;
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I'll speak | it in | my spirit | and hon|or, no.
TROILUS
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Come to | the port.| I'll tell | thee Di|omed,
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This brave,| shall oft | make thee | to hide |
thy head:
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Lady | give me | your hand,| and as | we walk,
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To our / own selves | bend we | our need|ful
talk.
[Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES. Trumpet within]
PARIS
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Hark,| Hector's | trumpet.
AENEAS
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How have we | spent this | morning (tri
with prev)
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The prince | must think | me tar|dy and | remiss,
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That sore | to ride | before | him to | the
field.
PARIS
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'Tis Troi|lus' fault:| come, come, to field |
with him.
DEIPHOBUS
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Let us | make rea|dy straight. \\
AENEAS
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Yea, with a | bridegroom's fresh | ala|crity
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Let us | address | to tend | on Hec|tor's heels:
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The glo|ry of our | Troy doth^|this day lie
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On his / fair worth,| and sing|le chi|valry.
[Exeunt]