Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida/Act 5 Scene 7

by William Shakespeare

Enter Achilles with Myrmidons.

Achil.
Come here about me you my Myrmidons:
Marke what I say; attend me where I wheele:
Strike not a stroake, but keepe your selues in breath;
And when I haue the bloudy Hector found,
Empale him with your weapons round about:
In fellest manner execute your arme.
Follow me sirs, and my proceedings eye;
Exit.It is decreed, Hector the great must dye.

Enter Thersites, Menelaus, and Paris.

Ther.
The Cuckold and the Cuckold maker are at it:
now bull, now dogge, lowe; Paris lowe; now my double
hen'd sparrow; lowe Paris, lowe; the bull has the
Exit Paris and Menelaus.game: ware hornes ho?

Enter Bastard.

Bast.
Turne slaue and fight.

Ther.
What are thou?

Bast.
A Bastard Sonne of Priams.

Ther.
I am a Bastard too, I loue Bastards, I am a Bastard
begot, Bastard instructed, Bastard in minde, Bastard
in valour, in euery thing illegitimate: one Beare will not
bite another, and wherefore should one Bastard? take
heede, the quarrel's most ominous to vs: if the Sonne of a
whore fight for a whore, he tempts iudgement: farewell Bastard.

Bast.
Exeunt.The diuell take thee coward.

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