Prince Troilus, I have lov'd you night and day Tro. Why was my Cressid then so hard to win? With the first glance that ever--Pardon me Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue; Tro. And shall, albeit sweet musick issues thence. Cres. My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me; 'Twas not my purpose, thus to beg a kiss: I am asham'd;-O heavens! what have I done?— For this time will I take my leave, my lord. Tro. Your leave, sweet Cressid? Pan. Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning,- Cres. Pray you, content you. Tro. What offends you, lady? Cres. Sir, mine own company Tro. Yourself. Cres. You cannot shun Let me go and try: I have a kind of self resides with you; Tro. Well know they what they speak, that speak so wisely. Cres. Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love; And fell so roundly to a large confession, 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, O virtuous fight, Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, As truth's authentick author to be cited, Cres. Prophet may you be ! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, To dusty nothing; yet let memory, 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 stepdame to her son; Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, Pan. Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the witness. Here I hold your hand; here, my cousin's. If ever you prove false one to another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end after my name, call them all-Pandars; let all constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids, and all brokersbetween Pandars! say, amen. Tro. Amen. Cres. Amen. Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber and a bed, which bed, because it shall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away. And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here, SCENE III.-The Grecian camp. [Exeunt. Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX, MENELAUS, and CALCHAS. Cal. Now, princes, for the service I have done you, Th' advantage of the time prompts me aloud To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind, That, through the sight I bear in things, to Jove I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession, Incurr'd a traitor's name; expos'd myself, From certain and possess'd conveniences, To doubtful fortunes; séquest'ring from me all That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition, Made tan.e 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 register'd in promise, Which, you say, live to come in my behalf. Agam. What would'st 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,) Whom Troy hath still denied: But this Antenor, Agam. Let Diomedes bear him, And bring us Cressid hither; Calchas shall have Dio. This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden Which I am proud to bear. [Exeunt DIOм. and CALC Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their tent. Ulyss. Achilles stands i' th' entrance of his tent:- Lay negligent and loose regard upon him: Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn'd on him To use between your strangeness and his pride, |