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(roth t. Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from Hect. Fie, savage, fie!

Tro.

Hector, then 'tis wars. Hect. Troilus, I would not have you fight Tro. Who should withhold me? [to-day. Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars, Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire; Not Priamus and liecuba on knees,

Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears;
Nor you, my brother, with your true sword
drawn,

Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,
But by my ruin.

Re-enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM.
Cas. Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him

fast:

He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,
Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
Fall all together.

Pri.

Come, Hector, come, go back : Thy wife hath dreamed; thy mother hath had

visions;

Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself
Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt,
To tell thee-that this day is ominous:
Therefore, come back.

Hect.
Eneas is a-field;
And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,
Even in the faith of valour, to appear
This morning to them.

Pri.

But thou shalt not go.
Heet. I must not break my faith,
You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,
Let me not shame respect; but give me leave
To take that course by your consent and voice,
Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam.
Cas. O Priam, yield not to him.
And.

Do not, dear father.
Hect. Andromache, I am offended with you:
Upon the love you bear me, get you in.
[Exit ANDROMACHE.
Tro. This foolish, dreaming, superstitious,
Makes all these bodements.
[girl
Cas.

O farewell, dear Hector. Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale!

Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!
Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out!
How poor Andromache shrills her dolours
forth I

Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amazement,
Like witless antics, one another meet,
And all cry-Hector! Hector's dead! O Hec
Tro. Away!-Away!

[tor!

Cas. Farewell.-Yet, soft :-Hector, I take my leave:

Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.

(Exit.

Hect. You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim: [fight; Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and Do deeds worth praise, and tell you them at night.

• Rueful, woful.

Pri. Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!

[Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums.

Tro. They are at it; hark! Proud Diomed,

believe,

I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.
As TROILUS is going out, enter, from the
other side, PANDARUS.

Pan. Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?
Tro. What now?

Pan. Here's a letter from yon' poor girl.
Tro. Let me read

Pun. A whoreson ptisic, a whoreson rascally ptisic so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o'these days: And I have a rheum in mine eyes too; and such an ache in my bones, that, unless a man were cursed, I canno: tell what to think on't. What says she there?

Tro. Words words, mere words, no mat-
ter from the heart; [Tearing the letter.
The effect doth operate another way.—
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change to-
gether.-

My love with words and errors still she feeds;
But edifies another with her deeds.
[Exeunt severally.
SCENE IV. Betireen Troy and the Grecian
Camp.

Alarums: Excursions. Enter THERSITES.
Ther. Now they are clapper-clawing one
another; I'll go look on. That dissembling
abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same
scurvy doting foolish young knaye's sleeve of
Troy there, in his helm: I would fain see
them meet; that that same young Trojan ass,
that loves the whore there, might send that
Greekish whoremasterly villain, with the
sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab,
on a sleeveless errand. O' the other side, the
policy of those crafty swearing rascals,-that
stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor; and
that same dog fox, Ulysses,-is not proved
worth a black-berry: They set me mp, in po-
licy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog
of as bad a kiud, Achilles; and now is the car
Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will
not arm to-day; whereupon the Grecians be
gin to proclaim barbarism, and policy grow!
into an ill opinion. Soft! here come sleeve,
and t'other.

Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following,
Tro. Fly not; for shouldst thou take the
river Styx,
I would swim after.

Dio.

Thon dost miscall retire: I do not fly; but advantageous care Withdrew me from the odds of multitude: Have at thee!

Ther. Hold thy whore, Grecian! now for thy whore, Trojan!-now the sleeve, now the sleeve!

[Exeunt TROILUs and DIOMEDEs, fighting.

+ Mercy.

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Enter AJAX.

Enter HECTOR.

Hect. What art thon, Greek? art thon for Artthon of blood, and honour? [flector's match? Ther. No, no:-1 am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave; a very filthy rogne. [Erit. Hect. I do believe thee;-live. Ther. God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; bat a plague break thy neck, for frighting me! What's become of the wenching rogues? I think they have swallowed one another: I would laugh at that miracle. Yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself. I'll seek them. [Exit.

SCENE V. The same. Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant. Dio. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid: [horse; Fellow, commend my service to her beanty; Tell her, I have chastised the amorous Trojan, And am ber knight by proof. Serv.

I go, my lord. [Exit Servant. Agam. Renew, renew! The fierce Polyda

mas

Enter AGAMEMNON.

Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Hath Dorens prisoner:

And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam*,
Upon the pashed+ corses of the kings
Epistrophus and Cedius: Polixenes is slain;
Amphimachus, and Thoas, deadly hurt;
Patroclus ta'en, or slain; and Palamedes
Sore hart and braised: the dreadful Sagittary
Appals our numbers; haste we, Diomed,
To reinforcement, or we perish all.

Enter NESTOR.

Nest. Go, bear Patrocios' body to Achilles; And bid the snail paced Ajax arm for shame. There is a thousand Hectors in the field: Now here he fights on Galatbe his horse, And there lacks work; anon, he's there afoot, And there they fly, or die, like scaled sculls Before the belching whale; then is he yonder, And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, Fall down before him, like the mower's swath: Here, there, and every where, he leaves, and Dexterity so obeying appetite, [takes; That what he will, he does; and does so much, That proof is call'd impossibility. Enter ULYSSES.

Ulys:. O, courage, courage, princes! great

Achilles

[geance; Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing venPatroclus wonnds have roused his drowsy

Together with his man led Myrmidons, (blood, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd,

come to him,

Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend,
And foams at month, and he is arm'd and at it,
Roaring for Troilus; who hath done to-day
Mad and fantastic execution;
Engaging and redeeming of himself,
With such a careless force, and forceless care,
As if that lack, in very spite of cunning,
Bade him win all.

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Ajax. Troilus! thou coward Troilus! [Erit
Dio.
Ay, there, there,
Nest. So, so, we draw together.
Enter ACHILIES.

Achil.
Where is this Hector?
Come, come, thon boy-quellers, show thy face;
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry.
Hector! where's Hector? 1 will none but
Hector.
[Exeunt.

SCENE VI. Another part of the Field.
Enter AJAX.

Ajax. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show
thy head!

Enter DIOMEDES.

Dio. Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?
Ajax.
What wouldst thou?

Dio. I would correct him.
Ajax. Were I the general, thou shouldst
have my office,
[Troilus!
Ere that correction:-Troilns, I say! what,
Enter TROILUS.

Tro. O, traitor, Diomed!-turn thy false
face, thon traitor,

And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse!
Dio. Ha! art thon there?

[med.

Ajax. I'll fight with him alone: stand, Dio. Dio. He is my prize, I will not look upon. Tro. Come both, you cogging Greeks {

have at you both. [Exeunt, fighting, Enter HECTOR.

Hect. Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!

Enter ACHILLES.

Achil. Now do I see thee: Ha!-Have at
Hect. Pause, if thou wilt. [thee, Hector
Achil. I do disdain thy comitesy, proud
Be happy, that my arms are out of use: [Trojan.
My rest and negligence befriend thee now,
But thon anon shait hear of me again;
Till when, go seek thy fortune.

Hect.

[Exit.

Fare thee well:

I would have been much more a fresher man,
Had I expected thee.- How now, my brotherf

Re-enter TROILUS.

Tro. Ajax hath ta'en Eucas; shall it be? No, by the flame of youder glorions heaven, He shall not carry him; I'll be taken too, Or bring him off-Fate, hear me what I say! reck + not thongh I end my life to-day.[Exit.

I

Enter one in sumptuous Armour.

Hect. Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark:—

No? wilt thon not I like thy armour well; I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all,

But I'll be master of it :-Wilt thou not, beast, abide?

Why then, fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide. [Exeunt

SCENE VII. The same.

Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons. Achil. Come here about me, you iny Myr midons;

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Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THERSITES.

Ther. The cuckold, and the cuckold naker, are at it. Now, bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, loo! now my donbled-henned sparrow! 100, Paris, 'loo! The buil has the game:-'ware horns, ho! [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS.

Enter MARGARELON.

Mar. Turn, slave, and fight.
Ther. What art thou?

Mar. A bastard son of Priam's.

Ther. I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valonr, in every thing 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.

Mar. The devil take thee, coward! [Exeunt. SCENE IX. Another part of the Field. Enter HECTOR.

Hect. Most putrefied core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath: [death! Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and [Puts off his helmet, and hangs his shield behind him.

Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons. Achil. Look, Hector, how the sun begins to

set;

How ugly night comes breathing at his heels: Even with the vail and dark'ning of the sun, To close the day up, Hector's life is done [Greek. Hec. I am unarm'd; forego this vantage+, Achil. Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek. [HECTOR fulls. So Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down.;

Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy boue. On Myrmidons; and cry yon all amain, Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain. [A Retreat sounded. Hark! a retreat upon our Grecian part. Myr. The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord. [the earth Achil. The dragon wing of night o'erspreads And, stickler like, the armies separates. My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed, Pleased with this dainty bit, thus goes to bed. [Sheathes his suvrd.

• Employ. § Fattening.

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Achilles.

Great Hector was as good a man as he. Ajar. If it be so, yet bragless let it be; To pray Achilles see ns at our tent.Agam. March patiently along:- Let one be [sent, If in his death the gods have us befriendel, Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended. [Exeunt, marching.

SCENE XI. Another part of the Field.

Enter ENEAS and Trojans.

Ene. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:

Never go home; here starve we out the night. Enter TROILUS.

Tro. Hector is slain.

All.

Hector?-the gods forbid! Tro. He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail,

[field.In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed! [Troy ! Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy, And linger not our sure destructions on!

Ene. My lord, you do discomfort all the host.

[so:

Tro. You understand me not, that tell me I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death; But dare all imminence, that gods and men, Address their dangers in. Hector is gone! Who shall tel! Priam so, or Hecuba? Let him, that will a screech-owl aye¶ be call'd, Go in to Troy, and say there-Hector's dead: There is a word will Priam turn to stone; Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives, Cold statues of the youth; and, in a word,* Scare Troy out of itself. But, march, away : Hector is dead; there is no more to say, Stay yet:-3 on vile abominable tents, Thus prondly pight ** npon our Phrygian | Let Titan rise as early as he dare, [plains, I'll throngh and through you!-And thou, great-sized coward!

+ Take not this advantage. Noise, rumour.

No space of earth shall sunder our two hates; I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still, That mouldeth goblins switt as frenzy thoughts. Strike a free march to Troy!-with comfort

go:

Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe. [Exeunt ÆNEAS und Trojans.

An arbitrator at athletic games. • Pitched, fixed.

¶ Ever.

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AS TROILUS is going out, enter from the other side, PANDARUS.

Pan. But hear you, hear you! [shame Tro. Hence, broker lackey! ignomy and Pursue thy life, and live ayet with thy name! [Exit TROILUS.

Pan. A goodly med'cine for my aching bones!-O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised! O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a' work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed? what verse for it? what instance for it ?-Let me

see :

Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey, and his sting:

• Ignominy.

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This play is more correctly written than most of Shakspeare's compositions, but it is not one of those in which either the extent of his views or elevation of his fancy is fully displayed. As the story abounded with materials, he has exerted little invention; but he has diversified his characters with great variety, and preserved them with great exactness. His vicious characters disgust, but cannot corrupt, for both Cressida and Pandarus are detested and contemned. The comic characters seem to have been the favourites of the writer; they are of the superficial kind, and exhibit more of manners, than nature; but they are copiously filled and powerfully impressed. Shakspeare has in his story followed, for the greater part, the old book of Caxton, which was then very popular; but the character of Thersites, of which it makes no mention, is a proof that this play was written after Chapman had published hi.

version of Homer.-JOHNSON.

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SCENE I. Athens. A Hall in Timon's

House.

Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and
Others, at several Doors.

Poet. Good day, sir.
Pain.
I am glad you are well.
Poet. I have not seen you long; how goes
Pain. It wears, sir, as it grows. [the world?
Poet.
Ay, that's well known:
But what particular rarity? what strange,
Which manifold record not matches? See,
Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power
Hath conjured to attend. I know the mer-
chant.
[ler.
Pain. I know them both; t'other's a jewel-
Mer. O, 'tis a worthy lord!
Jew.
Nay, that's most fix'd.
Mer. A most incomparable man; breathed",

as it were,

To an untirable and continuate t goodness:
He passes.

Jew. I have a jewel here.

Mer. O, pray, let's see't: For the lord
Timon, sir?
[for that-

Jew. If he will tonch the estimate; but,
Poet. When we for recompense have
praised the vile,

It stains the glory in that happy verse
Which aptly sings the good.
Mer.
'Tis a good form.
[Looking at the Jewel.
Jew. And rich: here is a water, look you.
Pain. You are rapt, sir, in some work, some
To the great lord.

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Poet.
A thing slipp'd idly from me.
Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes [Hint
From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i'the
Shows not, till it be struck; our gentle flame
Provokes itself, and, like the corrent, flies
Each bound it chates. What have you there!
Pain. A picture, sir.-And when comes
your book forth?

Poel. Upon the heels of my presentment §,
Let's see your piece.
[sir.

Pain.
'Tis a good piece.
Poet. So 'is: this comes off well and ex-
Pain. Indifferent.
[cellent.
Poet.
Admirable: How this grace
Speaks his own standing! what a mental

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I'll say of it,
It tutor's nature: artificial strife!
Lives in these tonches, livelier than life.

Enter certain Senators, and pass over.
Pain. How this lord's follow'd!
Port. The senators of Athens :-Happy
Pain. Look more!
[mea!

Poet. You see this confluence, this great
flood of visitors.

I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man, Whom this beneath world doth embrace and ling

With amplest entertainment: My free drift. [dedication Halts not particularly¶, but moves itself • Inured by constant practice. ti. e., Exceeds, goes beyond common bounds. + For continual. presented to Timon. As soon as my book has been i. e., The contest of art with nature. My design does not stop at any particular character.

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