Troilus And Cressida

1 Enter Diomedes and a Servant.
2 DIOMEDES.
3 Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus’ horse;
4 Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid.
5 Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
6 Tell her I have chastis’d the amorous Trojan,
7 And am her knight by proof.
8 SERVANT.
9 I go, my lord.
10 [_Exit_.]
11 Enter Agamemnon.
12 AGAMEMNON.
13 Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
14 Hath beat down Menon; bastard Margarelon
15 Hath Doreus prisoner,
16 And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
17 Upon the pashed corses of the kings
18 Epistrophus and Cedius. Polixenes is slain;
19 Amphimacus and Thoas deadly hurt;
20 Patroclus ta’en, or slain; and Palamedes
21 Sore hurt and bruis’d. The dreadful Sagittary
22 Appals our numbers. Haste we, Diomed,
23 To reinforcement, or we perish all.
24 Enter Nestor.
25 NESTOR.
26 Go, bear Patroclus’ body to Achilles,
27 And bid the snail-pac’d Ajax arm for shame.
28 There is a thousand Hectors in the field;
29 Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
30 And there lacks work; anon he’s there afoot,
31 And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
32 Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
33 And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
34 Fall down before him like the mower’s swath.
35 Here, there, and everywhere, he leaves and takes;
36 Dexterity so obeying appetite
37 That what he will he does, and does so much
38 That proof is call’d impossibility.
39 Enter Ulysses.
40 ULYSSES.
41 O, courage, courage, courage, Princes! Great Achilles
42 Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance.
43 Patroclus’ wounds have rous’d his drowsy blood,
44 Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
45 That noseless, handless, hack’d and chipp’d, come to him,
46 Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
47 And foams at mouth, and he is arm’d and at it,
48 Roaring for Troilus; who hath done today
49 Mad and fantastic execution,
50 Engaging and redeeming of himself
51 With such a careless force and forceless care
52 As if that lust, in very spite of cunning,
53 Bade him win all.
54 Enter Ajax.
55 AJAX.
56 Troilus! thou coward Troilus!
57 [_Exit_.]
58 DIOMEDES.
59 Ay, there, there.
60 NESTOR.
61 So, so, we draw together.
62 [_Exit_.]
63 Enter Achilles.
64 ACHILLES.
65 Where is this Hector?
66 Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;
67 Know what it is to meet Achilles angry.
68 Hector! where’s Hector? I will none but Hector.
69 [_Exeunt_.]