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Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1] |
Thersites |
962 |
There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy
ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you
like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars.
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2 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 2] |
Troilus |
1821 |
O virtuous fight,
When right with right wars who shall be most right!
True swains in love shall in the world to come
Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,
Full of protest, of oath and big compare,
Want similes, truth tired with iteration,
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,
Yet, after all comparisons of truth,
As truth's authentic author to be cited,
'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse,
And sanctify the numbers.
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3 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
Hector |
2896 |
I pray you, let us see you in the field:
We have had pelting wars, since you refused
The Grecians' cause.
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4 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2] |
Thersites |
3267 |
Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would
croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode.
Patroclus will give me any thing for the
intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not
do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing
else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!
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5 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 3] |
Troilus |
3333 |
Hector, then 'tis wars.
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6 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 9] |
Agamemnon |
3626 |
March patiently along: let one be sent
To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
If in his death the gods have us befriended,
Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.
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