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The same. Before Calchas' tent.
[Enter DIOMEDES]
DIOMEDES
What are you up here ho? speak?
CALCHAS
Who calls?
DIOMEDES
Diomed, Calchas (I think) Where's your daughter?
CALCHAS
She comes to you.
[Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance; after them, THERSITES]
ULYSSES
Stand where the torch may not discover us.
[Enter CRESSIDA]
TROILUS
Cressid comes forth to him.
DIOMEDES
How now my charge?
CRESSIDA
Now my sweet guardian: hark a word with you.
TROILUS
Yea, so familiar?
ULYSSES
She will sing any man at first sight.
THERSITES
And any man may find her, if he can take her life: she's noted.
DIOMEDES
Will you remember?
CRESSIDA
Remember? Yes.
DIOMEDES
Nay, but do then; And let your mind be coupled with your words.
TROILUS
What should she remember?
ULYSSES
List?
CRESSIDA
Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.
THERSITES
Roguery.
DIOMEDES
Nay then.
CRESSIDA
I'll tell you what.
DIOMEDES
Foh, foh, come tell a pin, you are a forsworn.
CRESSIDA
, 2 ,
, ,
,
In faith | I cannot:| what would | you have | me
do?
THERSITES
, ,
, , 2 ,
A jug|gling trick,| to be | secretly*| open.
DIOMEDES
,
, ,
, ,
What did | you swear | you would | bestow |
on^me?
CRESSIDA
,
, ,
, ,
I prith|ee do | not hold | me to | mine^oath,
, 2 ,
, ,
,
Bid me do*| not a/nything*| but that | sweet*
Greek.
DIOMEDES
,
Good night.
TROILUS
, ,
Hold,
pa/tience.
ULYSSES
T Tx
How | now, Troyan!
CRESSIDA
Tx 2->
Dio||med.
DIOMEDES
, , ,
, ,
No*, no,| good night:| I'll be | your fool | no
more.
TROILUS
, ,
Thy bet|ter must.
CRESSIDA
T T T 2 ,
Hark one word | in your ear.
TROILUS
, ,
O plague | and mad|ness! \\
ULYSSES
,
T T T
2 , ,
->
You are | moved prince, let | us depart | I pray
|| you,
,
2 , ,
, ,
Lest | your displeas|ure should | enlarge |
itself
,
, ,
, ,
To wrath|ful terms:| this^place | is dang|erous;
. T T
T , ,
,
The time right dead|ly: I | beseech | you go.
TROILUS
,
,
Behold,| I pray | you.
ULYSSES
<- , ,
T T T
Nay,|| good my | lord go off: (tri with
prev)
, ,
, ,
,
You flow | to great | distrac|tion: come | my
lord?
TROILUS
, ,
I pray | thee stay?
ULYSSES
, ,
,
You have | not pa|tience, come.
TROILUS
, ,
, , ,
I pray | you stay?| By hell | and hell |
torments*,
, ,
,
I will | not speak | a word.
DIOMEDES
, ,
And so | good night.
CRESSIDA
Nay, but you part in anger.
TROILUS
Doth that grieve thee? O withered truth!
ULYSSES
Why, how now lord?
TROILUS
By Jove I will be patient.
CRESSIDA
Guardian? Why Greek?
DIOMEDES
Foh, foh, adieu, you palter.
CRESSIDA
In faith I do not: come hither once again.
ULYSSES
You shake my lord at something; will you go? You will break out.
TROILUS
She strokes his cheek.
ULYSSES
Come, come.
TROILUS
, ,
, ,
,
Nay* stay,| by Jove | I will | not speak | a
word.
,
, ,
, , 2->
There is | between | my will,| and all |
offen||ses,
, , ,
, ,
A guard | of pa|tience; stay | a lit|tle while.
THERSITES
How the devil Luxury with his fat rump and potato-finger, tickles these
together: Fry lechery, fry.
DIOMEDES
But will you then?
CRESSIDA
, ,
, ,
,
In faith | I will|^lo; nev|er trust | me else.
DIOMEDES
,
, , ,
x
Give me | some^tok|en for | the sure|ty of it.
CRESSIDA
, ,
I'll fetch | you one. \\
[Exit]
ULYSSES
, ,
You have / sworn pa|tience.
TROILUS
, ,
,
Fear | me not | sweet lord.
, ,
, , ,
2->
I will | not be | myself,| nor have | cogni||tion
, ,
, , ,
Of what | I feel:| I am / all pa|tience.
[Enter CRESSIDA]
THERSITES
Now the pledge, now, now, now.
CRESSIDA
Here Diomed, keep this sleeve.
TROILUS
O beauty! Where is thy faith?
ULYSSES
My lord.
TROILUS
, ,
, ,
,
I will | be pa|tient, out|wardly | I will.
CRESSIDA
, ,
, ,
,
You look | upon | that sleeve?| Behold | it well:
, , T
T Tx
2 ,
He loved | me: O | false wench: Give it | me
again.
DIOMEDES
,
Whose was | it? \\
CRESSIDA
,
, ,
x ,
It is | no mat|ter now | I have it | again.
, ,
, ,
,
I will / not meet | with you | tomor|row night:
,
, , x
,
I prith|ee Di|omed | visit me | no* more.
THERSITES
,
, T T
T ___
Now she | sharpens:| well said whet|stone.
DIOMEDES
T T Tx
I shall have it.
CRESSIDA
,
What, this?
DIOMEDES
___ __
Aye | that.
CRESSIDA
, ,
, ,
,
O all | you gods!| O pret|ty, pret|ty pledge;
, ,
, ,
,
Thy mast|er now | lies^think|ing in | his bed
,
, ,
, ,
Of thee | and me,| and sighs,| and takes | my
glove,
,
, 2 , ,
x
And gives | memo|rial dain|ty kiss|es to it;
. T T T
As I kiss thee.
DIOMEDES
, 2 ,
,
Nay, do not | snatch it | from me.
CRESSIDA
,
T T T
, ,
He that | takes that, takes | my heart | withal.
DIOMEDES
, ,
, , ,
I had | your heart | before,| this fol|lows it.
TROILUS
T T T
,
I did swear | patience.
CRESSIDA
<- ,
, , ,
,
,
You shall | not have || it Di|omed;| faith you
| shall not;
<- ,
, ,
I'll give || you some|thing else.
DIOMEDES
, ,
x
I will / have this:| whose^was it?
CRESSIDA
2 , ,
It is no | matter.
DIOMEDES
, , ,
Come tell | me whose | it was?
CRESSIDA
, ,
, , ,
'Twas one's | that loved | me bet|ter than / you
will.
, , ,
But now | you have | it, take | it.
DIOMEDES
, ,
Whose | was it?
CRESSIDA
, ,
, ,
,
By all | Dian|a's wai|ting-wom|en yond:
,
, , ,
,
And by | herself,| I will | not tell | you whose.
DIOMEDES
,
, ,
, ,
Tomor|row will | I wear | it on | my helm,
,
x , ,
,
And grieve | his spirit | that dares | not
chal|lenge it.
TROILUS
,
x ,
, ,
Wert thou | the devil,| and wor'st | it on | thy
horn,
, ,
It should | be chal|lenged. \\
CRESSIDA
, ,
, ,
2 ,
Well*, well,| 'tis done,| 'tis past;| and yet |
it is not:
, ,
,
I will | not keep | my word.
DIOMEDES
, ,
Why* then | farewell,
x T
T T , ,
Thou never | shalt mock Di|omed | again.
CRESSIDA
, , ,
, ,
You shall | not go:| one can|not speak | a word,
2
, ,
But it straight | starts you.
DIOMEDES
2 , ,
,
I do not | like this | fooling.
THERSITES
Nor I by Pluto: but that that likes not me, pleases me best.
DIOMEDES
What shall I come? The hour.
CRESSIDA
Aye, come: O Jove! Do, come: I shall be plagued.
DIOMEDES
, ,
Farewell | till then.
[Exit]
CRESSIDA
, ,
,
Good night:| I prith|ee come:
,
, ,
, ,
Troilus | farewell:| One^eye | yet^looks | on
thee;
,
, ,
, ,
But with | my heart,| the oth|er eye,| doth see.
,
, , ,
,
Ah poor | our* sex;| this fault | in us | I find:
, ,
, ,
,
The er|ror of | our eye,| directs | our mind.
,
, ,
, ,
What er|ror leads,| must^err:| O then | conclude,
T T
. T ,
, ,
Minds swayed by^eyes,| are full | of tur|pitude.
[Exit]
THERSITES
, ,
, ,
,
A proof | of strength | she could | not pub|lish
more;
, ,
, . T T
T
Unless | she say,| my mind | is now turned whore.
ULYSSES
,
,
All's done | my lord.
TROILUS
,
It is.
ULYSSES
, ,
Why stay | we then?
TROILUS
, ,
, ,
,
To make | a re|corda|tion to | my soul
, ,
, ,
,
Of eve|ry syl|lable | that here | was spoke:
, 2 ,
T T T ,
But if I | tell how*| these two did | co^act;
,
, ,
, ,
Shall I | not lie,| in pub|lishing | a truth?
,
, ,
, ,
Sith^yet | there^is | a cre|dence in | my heart:
, ,
, ,
,
An es|perance | so ob|stinate|ly strong,
,
, 2 ,
, ,
That doth | invert | the attest | of eyes | and
ears;
, , ,
2 , ,
As if | those org|ans had de|ceptious |
functions,
, ,
, , ,
creat|ed on|ly to | calum|niate.
,
,
Was Cres|sid here?
ULYSSES
, ,
x
I can|not con|jure Troyan.
TROILUS
, T
T
She was | not sure.
ULYSSES
T T T T
Most | sure she was.
TROILUS
, 2 ,
, ,
,
Why my ne|gation | hath no | taste of | madness?
ULYSSES
, ,
, , ,
Nor mine | my lord:| Cressid | was here | but
now.
TROILUS
,
, , ,
,
Let it | not be | believed | for wom|anhood:
,
, , ,
, 2->
Think we | had moth|ers; do | not give |
advan||tage
, ,
, , ,
To stub|born crit|ics, apt | without | a theme
, ,
x ,
2 ,
For de|prava|tion, to square | the gen|eral sex
, ,
, ,
2 ,
By Cres|sid's rule.| Rather | think this not |
Cressid. ??
ULYSSES
, 2
, , ,
,
What hath she | done prince,/ that can | soil our
| mothers?
TROILUS
,
, , ,
,
Nothing | at all,| unless | that this | were she.
THERSITES
,
, 2 ,
, ,
Will he | swagger him|self^out | on his / own
eyes?
TROILUS
, ,
2 , , ,
This she?| No, this is | Dio|med's^Cres|sida:
,
, ,
, ,
If beaut|y have | a soul,| this is / not she:
. T T
T ,
, x
If souls guide vows;| if vows | are sanc|timony*;
??
, , ,
, ,
If sanc|timo|ny be | the gods'| delight:
, ,
, , ,
If there | be rule | in u|nity | itself,
, ,
, ,
,
This is / not she:| O mad|ness of | discourse!
,
, , ,
,
That cause | sets^up,| with, and | against |
thyself
,
, , ,
, ,
By foul | author|ity:| where reas|on can | revolt
, , ,
, ,
,
Without | perdi|tion, and | loss as|sume all |
reason, (hex with prev)
, ,
, 2 , ,
Without | revolt.| This is,| and is not |
Cressid:
,
, , ,
,
Within | my soul,| there doth | conduce | a fight
2
, ,
2 , ,
,
Of this strange | nature,| that a thing |
inse|parate,
,
, , ,
,
Divides | more wi/der than | the sky | and earth:
,
, , ,
2 ,
And yet | the spa|cious breadth | of this
di|vision,
, ,
, 2 , x
Admits | no^o|rifex | for a point | as subtle,
, ,
, , x
As A|riach|ne's brok|en woof | to enter: ??
,
, , ,
,
Instance,| O^inst|ance!^Strong | as Plu|to's
gates:
,
, ,
, x
Cressid | is mine,| tied with | the bonds | of
heaven;
,
, , x
,
Instance,| O^inst|ance, strong | as heaven |
itself:
, x
, , ,
The bonds | of heaven | are slipped,| dissolved,|
and loosed;
,
, ,
T Tx T
And with | anoth|er knot | five-finger-tied,
, ,
, ,
,
The frac|tions of | her faith,| orrs of | her
love:
, ,
, , x
The frag|ments, scraps,| the bits,| and grea|sy
relics,
2 ,
, , ,
, , ->
Of her ore-|eaten | faith, are | bound to |
Dio||med.
ULYSSES
, ,
, ,
May | worthy | Troilus | be half | attached
, ,
, ,
,
With that | which^here | his pas|sion doth |
express?
TROILUS
T T
. T
, ,
,
Aye Greek: and that | shall be | divul|ged well
,
, ,
, ,
In char|acters,| as red | as Mars | his heart
, ,
x ,
, 2->
Inflamed | with Ven|us: never | did young | man*
fan||cy ??
, ,
, ,
,
With so | etern|al, and | so fixed | a soul.
T T
. T , ,
,
Hark Greek: as much | as I | do Cres|sid love;
, ,
T T T , 2
So much | by weight,| hate I her | Diomed*,
, ,
, ,
,
That sleeve | is mine,| that he'll / bear on |
his helm:
,
, ,
, ,
Were it | a cask | composed | by Vul|can's skill,
,
, ,
, ,
My sword | should bite | it: not | the dread|ful
spout,
,
, , ,
,
Which ship|men* do | the hur|rica|no call,
,
, , ,
,
Constringed | in mass | by the | almigh|ty fen,
,
, , ,
,
Shall diz|zy with / more clam|or Nep|tune's^ear
, ,
, ,
,
In his | descent;| than shall | my promp|ted
sword,
, 2
, 2
Falling on | Diomed*.
THERSITES
x x 2
, ,
He'll tickle it | for his con|cupy. ??
TROILUS
, , x
T T T
O Cres|sid! O / false Cressid!| false, false,
false:
, ,
, ,
,
Let^all | untruths | stand by | thy stai|ned
name,
, ,
2
And they'll / seem glo|rious.
ULYSSES
, ,
,
O | contain | yourself:
, ,
, ,
Your pas|sion draws | ears hi/ther. \\
AENEAS
,
, ,
, ,
I have | been seek|ing you | this hour | my lord:
,
, ,
, ,
Hector | by this | is arm|ing him | in Troy.
, ,
, ,
,
Ajax|^your guard,| stays to | conduct | you home.
TROILUS
, ,
, 2 , ,
Have^with | you prince:| my court|eous lord |
adieu:
, ,
, , ,
*Farewell | revolt|ed fair:| and Di|omed,
T T
. T , ,
,
Stand fast, and wear | a cas|tle on | thy head.
ULYSSES
,
, ,
I'll bring | you to | the gates.
TROILUS
, ,
,
Accept | distract|ed thanks. (tri
with prev)
[Exeunt TROILUS, AENEAS, and ULYSSES]
THERSITES
Would I could meet that rogue Diomed, I would croak like a raven: I would
bode, I would bode: Patroclus will give me anything for the intelligence of
this whore: the parrot will not do more for an almond, than he for a
commodious drab: Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery, nothing else
holds fashion. A burning devil take them.
[Exit]