Troilus And Cressida

1 Enter Troilus and Cressida.
2 TROILUS.
3 Dear, trouble not yourself; the morn is cold.
4 CRESSIDA.
5 Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down;
6 He shall unbolt the gates.
7 TROILUS.
8 Trouble him not;
9 To bed, to bed! Sleep kill those pretty eyes,
10 And give as soft attachment to thy senses
11 As infants empty of all thought!
12 CRESSIDA.
13 Good morrow, then.
14 TROILUS.
15 I prithee now, to bed.
16 CRESSIDA.
17 Are you aweary of me?
18 TROILUS.
19 O Cressida! but that the busy day,
20 Wak’d by the lark, hath rous’d the ribald crows,
21 And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
22 I would not from thee.
23 CRESSIDA.
24 Night hath been too brief.
25 TROILUS.
26 Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays
27 As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love
28 With wings more momentary-swift than thought.
29 You will catch cold, and curse me.
30 CRESSIDA.
31 Prithee tarry.
32 You men will never tarry.
33 O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,
34 And then you would have tarried. Hark! there’s one up.
35 PANDARUS.
36 [_Within._] What’s all the doors open here?
37 TROILUS.
38 It is your uncle.
39 Enter Pandarus.
40 CRESSIDA.
41 A pestilence on him! Now will he be mocking.
42 I shall have such a life!
43 PANDARUS.
44 How now, how now! How go maidenheads?
45 Here, you maid! Where’s my cousin Cressid?
46 CRESSIDA.
47 Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle.
48 You bring me to do, and then you flout me too.
49 PANDARUS.
50 To do what? to do what? Let her say what.
51 What have I brought you to do?
52 CRESSIDA.
53 Come, come, beshrew your heart! You’ll ne’er be good, nor suffer
54 others.
55 PANDARUS.
56 Ha, ha! Alas, poor wretch! Ah, poor capocchia! Hast not slept tonight?
57 Would he not, a naughty man, let it sleep? A bugbear take him!
58 CRESSIDA.
59 Did not I tell you? Would he were knock’d i’ th’ head!
60 [_One knocks_.]
61 Who’s that at door? Good uncle, go and see.
62 My lord, come you again into my chamber.
63 You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.
64 TROILUS.
65 Ha! ha!
66 CRESSIDA.
67 Come, you are deceiv’d, I think of no such thing.
68 [_Knock_.]
69 How earnestly they knock! Pray you come in:
70 I would not for half Troy have you seen here.
71 [_Exeunt Troilus and Cressida_.]
72 PANDARUS.
73 Who’s there? What’s the matter? Will you beat down the door? How now?
74 What’s the matter?
75 Enter Aeneas.
76 AENEAS.
77 Good morrow, lord, good morrow.
78 PANDARUS.
79 Who’s there? My lord Aeneas? By my troth,
80 I knew you not. What news with you so early?
81 AENEAS.
82 Is not Prince Troilus here?
83 PANDARUS.
84 Here! What should he do here?
85 AENEAS.
86 Come, he is here, my lord; do not deny him.
87 It doth import him much to speak with me.
88 PANDARUS.
89 Is he here, say you? It’s more than I know, I’ll be sworn. For my own
90 part, I came in late. What should he do here?
91 AENEAS.
92 Who, nay then! Come, come, you’ll do him wrong ere you are ware; you’ll
93 be so true to him to be false to him. Do not you know of him, but yet
94 go fetch him hither; go.
95 Re-enter Troilus.
96 TROILUS.
97 How now! What’s the matter?
98 AENEAS.
99 My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,
100 My matter is so rash. There is at hand
101 Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,
102 The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor
103 Deliver’d to us; and for him forthwith,
104 Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,
105 We must give up to Diomedes’ hand
106 The Lady Cressida.
107 TROILUS.
108 Is it so concluded?
109 AENEAS.
110 By Priam and the general state of Troy.
111 They are at hand, and ready to effect it.
112 TROILUS.
113 How my achievements mock me!
114 I will go meet them; and, my Lord Aeneas,
115 We met by chance; you did not find me here.
116 AENEAS.
117 Good, good, my lord, the secrets of neighbour Pandar
118 Have not more gift in taciturnity.
119 [_Exeunt Troilus and Aeneas_.]
120 PANDARUS.
121 Is’t possible? No sooner got but lost? The devil take Antenor! The
122 young prince will go mad. A plague upon Antenor! I would they had
123 broke’s neck.
124 Re-enter Cressida.
125 CRESSIDA.
126 How now! What’s the matter? Who was here?
127 PANDARUS.
128 Ah, ah!
129 CRESSIDA.
130 Why sigh you so profoundly? Where’s my lord? Gone? Tell me, sweet
131 uncle, what’s the matter?
132 PANDARUS.
133 Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!
134 CRESSIDA.
135 O the gods! What’s the matter?
136 PANDARUS.
137 Pray thee get thee in. Would thou hadst ne’er been born! I knew thou
138 wouldst be his death! O, poor gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!
139 CRESSIDA.
140 Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees I beseech you, what’s the
141 matter?
142 PANDARUS.
143 Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone; thou art chang’d for
144 Antenor; thou must to thy father, and be gone from Troilus. ’Twill be
145 his death; ’twill be his bane; he cannot bear it.
146 CRESSIDA.
147 O you immortal gods! I will not go.
148 PANDARUS.
149 Thou must.
150 CRESSIDA.
151 I will not, uncle. I have forgot my father;
152 I know no touch of consanguinity,
153 No kin, no love, no blood, no soul so near me
154 As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine,
155 Make Cressid’s name the very crown of falsehood,
156 If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,
157 Do to this body what extremes you can,
158 But the strong base and building of my love
159 Is as the very centre of the earth,
160 Drawing all things to it. I’ll go in and weep—
161 PANDARUS.
162 Do, do.
163 CRESSIDA.
164 Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks,
165 Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart,
166 With sounding ‘Troilus.’ I will not go from Troy.
167 [_Exeunt_.]