Troi. You cannot shun yourself, Cre. Let me go and try : 310 I have a kind of self resides with you; Cre. Perchance, my lord, I shew more craft than love; And fell so roundly to a large confession, 321 To angle for your thoughts: But you are wise; Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth. Cre. In that I'll war with you. Troi. O virtuous fight, 330 When right with right wars who shall be most right: True True swains in love shall, in the world come, Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes, As truth's authentic author to be cited, Cre. Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, And mighty states characterless are grated 340 351 From false to false, among false maids in love, Upbraid my falsehood! when they have said-as false As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind, or step-dame to her son; Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, As false as Cressid. 360 Pan. Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the witness. Here I hold your hand; here, my If ever you prove false to one another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's cousin's. 3 end let end after my name, call them all-Pandars all inconstant men be Troilus's, all false women Cressids, and all brokers-between Pandars ! say, amen. Troi. Amen. Cre. Amen. 370 Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will shew you a bedchamber; which bed, because it shall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away. And Cupid grant all tongue-ty'd maidens here, Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear! [Exeunt. SCENE III. The Grecian Camp. Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMED, NESTOR, AJAX, MENELAUS, and CALCHAS. 881 Cal. Now, princes, for the service I have done you, The advantage of the time prompts me aloud To call for recompence. Appear it to your mind, That, through the sight I bear in things, to Jove I have abandon'd Troy, left my possessions, Incurr'd a traitor's name; expos'd myself, From certain and possest conveniences, To doubtful fortunes; sequestring from me all That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition, Made tame and most familiar to my nature; And here, to do you service, am become As new into the world, strange, unacquainted: I do beseech you, as in way of taste, To give me now a little benefit, Out of those many registred in promise, Which, you say, live to come in my behalf. 390 Aga. What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand. Cal. You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor, Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you (often have you thanks therefore) Desir'd my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still deny'd: But this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs," That their negotiations all must slack, Wanting his manage; and they will almost Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam, In change of him: let him be sent, great princes, And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence Shall quite strike off all service I have done, In most accepted pain. Aga. Let Diomedes bear him, 400 410 And bring us Cressid hither; Calchas shall have [Exit DIOMED, and CALCHAS. Enter ACHILLES, and PATROCLUS, before their Tent. Ulyss. Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent : Please it our general to pass strangely by him, As if he were forgot ;-and, princes all, Lay negligent and loose regard upon him :~~ I will come last: 'Tis like, he'll question me, Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn'd on him: If so, I have derision med'cinable, 420 To use between your strangeness and his pride, Achil. What, comes the general to speak with me? You know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy. Aga. What says Achilles? would he aught with us? Nest. Would you, my lord, aught with the general? Achil. No. Nest. Nothing, my lord. Aga. |