The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Hect._ Good night, sweet Lord Menelaus.[2167] 70
_Ther._ Sweet draught: sweet, quoth a'! sweet sink, sweet[2168]
sewer.[2169]
_Achil._ Good night and welcome, both at once, to those[2170][2171]
That go or tarry.[2170][2172]
_Agam._ Goodnight. [_Exeunt Agamemnon and Menelaus._[2173] 75
_Achil._ Old Nestor tarries; and you too, Diomed,[2174]
Keep Hector company an hour or two.
_Dio._ I cannot, lord; I have important business,
The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector.
_Hect._ Give me your hand. 80
_Ulyss._ [_Aside to Troilus_] Follow his torch; he goes to
Calchas' tent:[2175][2176][2177]
I'll keep you company.[2176]
_Tro._ Sweet sir, you honour me.
_Hect._ And so, good night.
[_Exit Diomedes; Ulysses and Troilus following._[2178]
_Achil._ Come, come, enter my tent.
[_Exeunt Achilles, Hector, Ajax, and Nestor._[2179]
_Ther._ That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most 85
unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers than
I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend his mouth
and promise, like Brabbler the hound; but when he performs,
astronomers foretell it; it is prodigious, there will[2180]
come some change; the sun borrows of the moon when[2181] 90
Diomed keeps his word. I will rather leave to see Hector
than not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan drab
and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll after. Nothing but[2182]
lechery! all incontinent varlets! [_Exit._[2183]
SCENE II. _The same. Before Calchas' tent._
_Enter_ DIOMEDES.[2184]
_Dio._ What, are you up here, ho? speak.[2185]
_Cal._ [_Within_] Who calls?[2186]
_Dio._ Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?[2187]
_Cal._ [_Within_] She comes to you.[2186]
_Enter_ TROILUS _and_ ULYSSES, _at a distance; after them_,
THERSITES.[2188]
_Ulyss._ Stand where the torch may not discover us. 5
_Enter_ CRESSIDA.[2189]
_Tro._ Cressid comes forth to him.[2190]
_Dio._ How now, my charge!
_Cres._ Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with
you. [_Whispers._[2191]
_Tro._ Yea, so familiar!
_Ulyss._ She will sing any man at first sight.[2192]
_Ther._ And any man may sing her, if he can take her[2193] 10
cliff; she's noted.[2193]
_Dio._ Will you remember?[2194]
_Cres._ Remember! yes.[2195]
_Dio._ Nay, but do, then;[2196]
And let your mind be coupled with your words.[2197] 15
_Tro._ What should she remember?[2198]
_Ulyss._ List.
_Cres._ Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.
_Ther._ Roguery!
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