Troylus and Cressida.
Ile send the foole to Aiax, and desire him
T'inuite the Troian Lords after the Combat
To see vs here vnarm'd: I haue a womans longing,
An appetite that I am sicke withall,
To see great Hector in his weedes of peace;
Enter Thersi.
To talke with him, and to behold his visage,
Euen to my full of view. A labour sau'd.
T'inuite the Troian Lords after the Combat
To see vs here vnarm'd: I haue a womans longing,
An appetite that I am sicke withall,
To see great Hector in his weedes of peace;
Enter Thersi.
To talke with him, and to behold his visage,
Euen to my full of view. A labour sau'd.
Ther.
A wonder.
A wonder.
Achil.
What?
What?
Ther.
Aiax goes vp and downe the field, asking for himselfe.
Aiax goes vp and downe the field, asking for himselfe.
Achil.
How so?
How so?
Ther.
Hee must fight singly to morrow with Hector,
and is so prophetically proud of an heroicall cudgelling,
that he raues in saying nothing.
Hee must fight singly to morrow with Hector,
and is so prophetically proud of an heroicall cudgelling,
that he raues in saying nothing.
Achil.
How can that be?
How can that be?
Ther.
Why he stalkes vp and downe like a Peacock, a
stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostesse, that hath no
Arithmatique but her braine to set downe her reckoning:
bites his lip with a politique regard, as who should
say, there were wit in his head and twoo'd out; and so
there is: but it lyes as coldly in him, as fire in a flint,
which will not shew without knocking. The mans vndone
for euer; for if Hector breake not his necke i'th'combat,
heele break't himselfe in vaine-glory. He knowes
not mee: I said, good morrow Aiax; And he replyes,
thankes Agamemnon. What thinke you of this man,
that takes me for the Generall? Hee's growne a very
land-fish, languagelesse, a monster: a plague of opinion,
a man may weare it on both sides like a leather Ierkin.
Why he stalkes vp and downe like a Peacock, a
stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostesse, that hath no
Arithmatique but her braine to set downe her reckoning:
bites his lip with a politique regard, as who should
say, there were wit in his head and twoo'd out; and so
there is: but it lyes as coldly in him, as fire in a flint,
which will not shew without knocking. The mans vndone
for euer; for if Hector breake not his necke i'th'combat,
heele break't himselfe in vaine-glory. He knowes
not mee: I said, good morrow Aiax; And he replyes,
thankes Agamemnon. What thinke you of this man,
that takes me for the Generall? Hee's growne a very
land-fish, languagelesse, a monster: a plague of opinion,
a man may weare it on both sides like a leather Ierkin.
Achil.
Thou must be my Ambassador to him Thersites.
Thou must be my Ambassador to him Thersites.
Ther.
Who, I: why, heele answer nobody: he professes
not answering; speaking is for beggers: he weares
his tongue in's armes: I will put on his presence;let Patroclus
make his demands to me, you shall see the Pageant of Aiax.
Who, I: why, heele answer nobody: he professes
not answering; speaking is for beggers: he weares
his tongue in's armes: I will put on his presence;let Patroclus
make his demands to me, you shall see the Pageant of Aiax.
Achil.
To him Patroclus; tell him, I humbly desire the
valiant Aiax, to inuite the most valorous Hector, to come
vnarm'd to my Tent, and to procure safe conduct for his
person, of the magnanimious and most illustrious, sixe or
seauen times honour'd Captaine, Generall of the Grecian
Armie Agamemnon, &c. doe this.
To him Patroclus; tell him, I humbly desire the
valiant Aiax, to inuite the most valorous Hector, to come
vnarm'd to my Tent, and to procure safe conduct for his
person, of the magnanimious and most illustrious, sixe or
seauen times honour'd Captaine, Generall of the Grecian
Armie Agamemnon, &c. doe this.
Patro.
Ioue blesse great Aiax.
Ioue blesse great Aiax.
Ther.
Hum.
Hum.
Patr.
I come from the worthy Achilles.
I come from the worthy Achilles.
Ther.
Ha?
Ha?
Patr.
Who most humbly desires you to inuite Hector
to his Tent.
Who most humbly desires you to inuite Hector
to his Tent.
Ther.
Hum.
Hum.
Patr.
And to procure safe conduct from Agamemnon.
And to procure safe conduct from Agamemnon.
Ther.
Agamemnon?
Agamemnon?
Patr.
I my Lord.
I my Lord.
Ther.
Ha?
Ha?
Patr.
What say you too't.
What say you too't.
Ther.
God buy you with all my heart.
God buy you with all my heart.
Patr.
Your answer sir.
Your answer sir.
Ther.
If tomorrow be a faire day, by eleuen a clocke
it will goe one way or other; howsoeuer, he shall pay for
me ere he has me.
If tomorrow be a faire day, by eleuen a clocke
it will goe one way or other; howsoeuer, he shall pay for
me ere he has me.
Patr.
Your answer sir.
Your answer sir.
Ther.
Fare you well withall my heart.
Fare you well withall my heart.
Achil.
Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?
Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?
Ther.
No, but he's out a tune thus: what musicke will
be in him when Hector has knockt out his braines, I know
not: but I am sure none, vnlesse the Fidler Apollo get
his sinewes to make catlings on.
No, but he's out a tune thus: what musicke will
be in him when Hector has knockt out his braines, I know
not: but I am sure none, vnlesse the Fidler Apollo get
his sinewes to make catlings on.
Achil.
Come, thou shalt beare a Letter to him straight.
Come, thou shalt beare a Letter to him straight.
Ther.
Let me carry another to his Horse; for that's the
more capable creature.
Let me carry another to his Horse; for that's the
more capable creature.
Achil.
My minde is troubled like a Fountains stir'd,
And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.
My minde is troubled like a Fountains stir'd,
And I my selfe see not the bottome of it.
Ther.
Would the Fountaine of your minde were cleere
againe, that I might water an Asse at it: I had rather be a
Ticke in a Sheepe, then such a valiant ignorance.
Would the Fountaine of your minde were cleere
againe, that I might water an Asse at it: I had rather be a
Ticke in a Sheepe, then such a valiant ignorance.
Enter at one doore Æneas with a Torch, at another
Paris, Diephœbus, Anthenor, Diomed the
Grecian, with Torches.
Paris, Diephœbus, Anthenor, Diomed the
Grecian, with Torches.
Par.
See hoa, who is that there?
See hoa, who is that there?
Dieph.
It is the Lord Æneas
It is the Lord Æneas
Æne.
Is the Prince there in person?
Had I so good occasion to lye long
As you Prince Paris, nothing but heauenly businesse,
Should rob my bed-mate of my company.
Is the Prince there in person?
Had I so good occasion to lye long
As you Prince Paris, nothing but heauenly businesse,
Should rob my bed-mate of my company.
Diom.
That's my minde too: good morrow Lord Æneas.
That's my minde too: good morrow Lord Æneas.
Par.
A valiant Greeke Æneas take his hand,
Witnesse the processe of your speech within;
You told how Diomed in a whole weeke by dayes
Did haunt you in the Field.
A valiant Greeke Æneas take his hand,
Witnesse the processe of your speech within;
You told how Diomed in a whole weeke by dayes
Did haunt you in the Field.
Æne.
Health to you valiant sir,
During all question of the gentle truce:
But when I meete you arm'd, as blacke defiance,
As heart can thinke, or courage execute.
Health to you valiant sir,
During all question of the gentle truce:
But when I meete you arm'd, as blacke defiance,
As heart can thinke, or courage execute.
Diom.
The one and other Diomed embraces,
Our blouds are now in calme; and so long health:
But when contention, and occasion meetes,
By Ioue, Ile play the hunter for thy life,
With all my force, pursuite and pollicy.
The one and other Diomed embraces,
Our blouds are now in calme; and so long health:
But when contention, and occasion meetes,
By Ioue, Ile play the hunter for thy life,
With all my force, pursuite and pollicy.
Æne.
And thou shalt hunt a Lyon that will flye
With his face backward, in humaine gentlenesse:
Welcome to Troy; now by Anchises life,
Welcome indeede; by Venus hand I sweare,
No man aliue can loue in such a sort,
The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently.
And thou shalt hunt a Lyon that will flye
With his face backward, in humaine gentlenesse:
Welcome to Troy; now by Anchises life,
Welcome indeede; by Venus hand I sweare,
No man aliue can loue in such a sort,
The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently.
Diom.
We simpathize. Ioue let Æneas liue
(If to my sword his fate be not the glory)
A thousand compleate courses of the Sunne,
But in mine emulous honor let him dye:
With euery ioynt a wound, and that to morrow.
We simpathize. Ioue let Æneas liue
(If to my sword his fate be not the glory)
A thousand compleate courses of the Sunne,
But in mine emulous honor let him dye:
With euery ioynt a wound, and that to morrow.
Æne.
We know each other well.
We know each other well.
Dio.
We doe, and long to know each other worse.
We doe, and long to know each other worse.
Par.
This is the most, despightful'st gentle greeting;
The noblest hatefull loue, that ere I heard of.
What businesse Lord so early?
This is the most, despightful'st gentle greeting;
The noblest hatefull loue, that ere I heard of.
What businesse Lord so early?
Æne.
I was sent for to the King; but why, I know not.
I was sent for to the King; but why, I know not.
Par.
His purpose meets you; it was to bring this Greek
To Calchas house; and there to render him,
For the enfreed Anthenor, the faire Cressid:
Lets haue your company; or if you please,
Haste there before vs. I constantly doe thinke
(Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge)
My brother Troylus lodges there to night.
Rouse him, and giue him note of our approach,
With the whole quality whereof, I feare
We shall be much vnwelcome.
His purpose meets you; it was to bring this Greek
To Calchas house; and there to render him,
For the enfreed Anthenor, the faire Cressid:
Lets haue your company; or if you please,
Haste there before vs. I constantly doe thinke
(Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge)
My brother Troylus lodges there to night.
Rouse him, and giue him note of our approach,
With the whole quality whereof, I feare
We shall be much vnwelcome.
Æne.
That I assure you;
Troylus had rather Troy were borne to Greece,
Then Cressid borne from Troy.
That I assure you;
Troylus had rather Troy were borne to Greece,
Then Cressid borne from Troy.
Par. There
