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Troilus and Cressida

Act V, Scene 7

Another part of the plains.
 
[Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons]
 
ACHILLES
        T    T  .  T        ,        ,      ,
      Come here about | me you | my Myr|midons:
        ,            ,        ,         ,         ,
      Mark what | I say;| attend | me where | I wheel:
         T    T  .    T           ,           ,           ,
      Strike not a stroke,| but keep | yourselves | in breath:
            ,        ,          ,      ,        ,
      And when | I have | the bloo|dy Hec|tor found,
          ,          ,          ,         ,        ,
      Empale | him with | your weap|ons round | about:
          ,        ,       ,    ,          ,
      In fel|lest man|ner ex|ecute | your arm.
       ,            ,         ,       ,         ,
      Follow | me sirs,| and my | procee|dings eye;
          ,       ,      ,             ,           ,
      It is | decreed,| Hector | the great | must die.
 
[Exeunt. Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THERSITES]
 
THERSITES
The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it: Now bull, now dog, 'Loo; Paris 'loo; now my double-henned sparrow; 'loo Paris, 'loo; the bull has the game: ware horns ho?
 
[Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS. Enter MARGARELON]
 
MARGARELON
Turn slave and fight.
 
THERSITES
What art thou?
 
MARGARELON
A bastard son of Priam's.
 
THERSITES
I am a bastard too, I love bastards, I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate: One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment: farewell bastard.
 
[Exit]
 
MARGARELON
The devil take thee coward.
 
[Exit]

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