Chapter XI: Act V: SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.2120

_Enter_ ACHILLES _and_ PATROCLUS.

_Achil._ I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,[2121]
Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.[2122]
Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.

_Patr._ Here comes Thersites.

_Enter_ THERSITES.

_Achil._ How now, thou core of envy![2123]
Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?[2124] 5

_Ther._ Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol[2125]
of idiot-worshippers, here's a letter for thee.

_Achil._ From whence, fragment?

_Ther._ Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy.

_Patr._ Who keeps the tent now? 10

_Ther._ The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.

_Patr._ Well said, adversity! and what need these tricks?[2126]

_Ther._ Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk:[2127]
thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.[2128][2129]

_Patr._ Male varlet, you rogue! what's that?[2129] 15

_Ther._ Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases[2130]
of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads[2131]
o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes,[2132][2133]
dirt-rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of imposthume,[2133][2134]
sciaticas, limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and
the[2133][2135] 20
rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such[2133]
preposterous discoveries![2136]

_Patr._ Why, thou damnable box of envy, thou, what
mean'st thou to curse thus?[2137]

_Ther._ Do I curse thee? 25

_Patr._ Why, no, you ruinous butt; you whoreson indistinguishable[2138]
cur, no.[2139]

_Ther._ No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle
immaterial skein of sleave silk, thou green sarcenet flap for[2140]
a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou? Ah,[2141] 30
how the poor world is pestered with such waterflies, diminutives
of nature!

_Patr._ Out, gall![2142]

_Ther._ Finch-egg!

_Achil._ My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite[2143] 35
From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.
Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,
A token from her daughter, my fair love,
Both taxing me and gaging me to keep
An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it: 40
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;[2144]
My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:
This night in banqueting must all be spent.[2145]
Away, Patroclus! [_Exeunt Achilles and Patroclus._[2145][2146] 45

_Ther._ With too much blood and too little brain, these
two may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too little
blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen. Here's Agamemnon,
an honest fellow enough and one that loves quails;[2147]
but he has not so much brain as ear-wax: and the goodly[2148] 50
transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the[2149]
primitive statue and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty[2150]
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg,--to[2151]
what form but that he is, should wit larded with malice and[2152]
malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing;[2153] 55
he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is[2154]
both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a[2154][2155]
toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe,[2156]
I would not care; but to be Menelaus! I would conspire[2157]
against destiny. Ask me not what I would be, if I were[2158] 60
not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar, so I
were not Menelaus. Hoy-day! spirits and fires!

_Enter_ HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR,
MENELAUS, _and_ DIOMEDES, _with lights_.[2159]

_Agam._ We go wrong, we go wrong.[2160]

_Ajax._ No, yonder 'tis;[2161]
There, where we see the lights.[2162]

_Hect._ I trouble you.[2161]

_Ajax._ No, not a whit.

_Re-enter_ ACHILLES.[2163]

_Ulyss._ Here comes himself to guide you. 65

_Achil._ Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all.

_Agam._ So now, fair Prince of Troy, I bid good night.[2164]
Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.[2165]

_Hect._ Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.[2166]

_Men._ Good night, my lord.

_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!

_Dio._ Nay, then,-- 20

_Cres._ I'll tell you what,--

_Dio._ Foh, foh! come, tell a pin: you are forsworn.[2199]

_Cres._ In faith, I cannot: what would you have me do?[2200]

_Ther._ A juggling trick,--to be secretly open.

_Dio._ What did you swear you would bestow on me? 25

_Cres._ I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;
Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek.[2201]

_Dio._ Good night.

_Tro._ Hold, patience![2202]

_Ulyss._ How now, Trojan! 30

_Cres._ Diomed,--

_Dio._ No, no, good night: I'll be your fool no more.

_Tro._ Thy better must.

_Cres._ Hark, one word in your ear.[2203]

_Tro._ O plague and madness! 35

_Ulyss._ You are moved, prince; let us depart, I pray you,[2204]
Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous;
The time right deadly; I beseech you, go.

_Tro._ Behold, I pray you!

_Ulyss._ Nay, good my lord, go off:[2205] 40
You flow to great distraction; come, my lord.[2206]

_Tro._ I pray thee, stay.[2207]

_Ulyss._ You have not patience; come.

_Tro._ I pray you, stay; by hell and all hell's torments,[2208]
I will not speak a word.[2209]

_Dio._ And so, good night.

_Cres._ Nay, but you part in anger.

_Tro._ Doth that grieve thee?[2210] 45
O wither'd truth![2210]

_Ulyss._ Why, how now, lord![2211]

_Tro._ By Jove,[2212]
I will be patient.[2212]

_Cres._ Guardian!--why, Greek!

_Dio._ Foh, foh! adieu; you palter.[2213]

_Cres._ In faith, I do not: come hither once again.

_Ulyss._ You shake, my lord, at something: will you go?[2214] 50
You will break out.[2214]

_Tro._ She strokes his cheek!

_Ulyss._ Come, come.

_Tro._ Nay, stay; by Jove, I will not speak a word:
There is between my will and all offences
A guard of patience: stay a little while.

_Ther._ How the devil luxury, with his fat rump and 55
potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry![2215]

_Dio._ But will you, then?[2216]

_Cres._ In faith, I will, la; never trust me else.[2217]

_Dio._ Give me some token for the surety of it.

_Cres._ I'll fetch you one. [_Exit_ 60

_Ulyss._ You have sworn patience.

_Tro._ Fear me not, sweet lord;[2218]
I will not be myself, nor have cognition
Of what I feel: I am all patience.

_Re-enter_ CRESSIDA.[2219]

_Ther._ Now the pledge; now, now, now![2220]

_Cres._ Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve. 65

_Tro._ O beauty! where is thy faith?

_Ulyss._ My lord,--

_Tro._ I will be patient; outwardly I will.[2221]

_Cres._ You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.[2222]
He loved me--O false wench!--Give't me again.

_Dio._ Whose was't? 70

_Cres._ It is no matter, now I have't again.[2223]
I will not meet with you to-morrow night:
I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.

_Ther._ Now she sharpens: well said, whetstone!

_Dio._ I shall have it.[2224]

_Cres._ What, this?

_Dio._ Ay, that. 75

_Cres._ O, all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!
Thy master now lies thinking in his bed[2225]
Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,
And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,[2226]
As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me;[2226][2227] 80
He that takes that doth take my heart withal.[2228]

_Dio._ I had your heart before; this follows it.

_Tro._ I did swear patience.

_Cres._ You shall not have it, Diomed; faith, you shall not;[2229]
I'll give you something else. 85

_Dio._ I will have this: whose was it?

_Cres._ It is no matter.[2230]

_Dio._ Come, tell me whose it was.

_Cres._ 'Twas one's that loved me better than you will.[2231]
But, now you have it, take it.

_Dio._ Whose was it?[2232]

_Cres._ By all Diana's waiting-women yond,[2233] 90
And by herself, I will not tell you whose.

_Dio._ To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,
And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.

_Tro._ Wert thou the devil, and worest it on thy horn,
It should be challenged. 95

_Cres._ Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past; and yet it is not;
I will not keep my word.

_Dio._ Why then, farewell;[2234]
Thou never shalt mock Diomed again.[2234]

_Cres._ You shall not go: one cannot speak a word,[2234][2235]
But it straight starts you.[2234]

_Dio._ I do not like this fooling.[2234] 100

_Ther._ Nor I, by Pluto: but that that likes not you[2236][2237]
Pleases me best.[2236]

_Dio._ What, shall I come? the hour?

_Cres._ Ay, come: O Jove! do come: I shall be plagued.

_Dio._ Farewell till then.

_Cres._ Good night: I prithee, come.

[_Exit Diomedes._[2238]

Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee, 105
But with my heart the other eye doth see.[2239]
Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err; O, then conclude
Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude. [_Exit._ 110

_Ther._ A proof of strength she could not publish more,[2240]
Unless she said 'My mind is now turn'd whore.'[2241]

_Ulyss._ All's done, my lord.

_Tro._ It is.

_Ulyss._ Why stay we then?

_Tro._ To make a recordation to my soul
Of every syllable that here was spoke. 115
But if I tell how these two did co-act,[2242]
Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?
Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,
An esperance so obstinately strong,
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears;[2243] 120
As if those organs had deceptious functions,[2244]
Created only to calumniate.[2245]
Was Cressid here?[2245]

_Ulyss._ I cannot conjure, Trojan.

_Tro._ She was not, sure.

_Ulyss._ Most sure she was.[2246]

_Tro._ Why, my negation hath no taste of madness.[2247] 125

_Ulyss._ Nor mine, my lord: Cressid was here but now.

_Tro._ Let it not be believed for womanhood!
Think, we had mothers; do not give advantage
To stubborn critics, apt without a theme
For depravation, to square the general sex[2248] 130
By Cressid's rule: rather think this not Cressid.

_Ulyss._ What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?[2249]

_Tro._ Nothing at all, unless that this were she.

_Ther._ Will a'swagger himself out on's own eyes?[2250]

_Tro._ This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida:[2251] 135
If beauty have a soul, this is not she;
If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,[2252]
If sanctimony be the gods' delight,
If there be rule in unity itself,[2253]
This is not she. O madness of discourse,[2254] 140
That cause sets up with and against itself![2255]
Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt[2256][2257]
Without perdition, and loss assume all reason[2257][2258]
Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid!
Within my soul there doth conduce a fight[2259] 145
Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate
Divides more wider than the sky and earth;[2260]
And yet the spacious breadth of this division
Admits no orifex for a point as subtle[2261][2262]
As Ariachne's broken woof to enter.[2261][2263] 150
Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto's gates;
Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:
Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself;
The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolved and loosed;
And with another knot, five-finger-tied,[2264] 155
The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,
The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics
Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed.[2265]

_Ulyss._ May worthy Troilus be half attach'd[2266]
With that which here his passion doth express? 160

_Tro._ Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well
In characters as red as Mars his heart
Inflamed with Venus: never did young man fancy[2267]
With so eternal and so fix'd a soul.
Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,[2268] 165
So much by weight hate I her Diomed:
That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm:[2269]
Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill,
My sword should bite it: not the dreadful spout
Which shipmen do the hurricano call, 170
Constringed in mass by the almighty sun,[2270]
Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear[2271]
In his descent, than shall my prompted sword[2271]
Falling on Diomed.[2271]

_Ther._ He'll tickle it for his concupy.[2272] 175

_Tro._ O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!
Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
And they'll seem glorious.

_Ulyss._ O, contain yourself;
Your passion draws ears hither.

_Enter_ ÆNEAS.

_Æne._ I have been seeking you this hour, my lord: 180
Hector by this is arming him in Troy;
Ajax your guard stays to conduct you home.[2273]

_Tro._ Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu.
Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,
Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head! 185

_Ulyss._ I'll bring you to the gates.

_Tro._ Accept distracted thanks.

[_Exeunt Troilus, Æneas, and Ulysses._

_Ther._ 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 190
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! [_Exit._

SCENE III. _Troy. Before Priam's palace._[2274]

_Enter_ HECTOR _and_ ANDROMACHE.

_And._ When was my lord so much ungently temper'd,
To stop his ears against admonishment?
Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.

_Hect._ You train me to offend you; get you in:[2275]
By all the everlasting gods, I'll go![2276] 5

_And._ My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day.[2277]

_Hect._ No more, I say.

_Enter_ CASSANDRA.

_Cas._ Where is my brother Hector?

_And._ Here, sister; arm'd, and bloody in intent.
Consort with me in loud and dear petition;[2278]
Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream'd 10
Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night
Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.[2279]

_Cas._ O, 'tis true.

_Hect._ Ho! bid my trumpet sound!

_Cas._ No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother.[2280]

_Hect._ Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear. 15

_Cas._ The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows:
They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

_And._ O, be persuaded! do not count it holy[2281][2282][2283]
To hurt by being just: it is as lawful,[2281][2283][2284][2285][2286] 20
For we would give much, to use violent thefts[2281][2283][2284][2286]
And rob in the behalf of charity.[2283][2284]

_Cas._ It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;[2287]
But vows to every purpose must not hold:
Unarm, sweet Hector.[2288]

_Hect._ Hold you still, I say; 25
Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:[2289]
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man[2290]
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.[2291]

_Enter_ TROILUS.

How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?[2292]

_And._ Cassandra, call my father to persuade. 30

[_Exit Cassandra._

_Hect._ No, faith, young Troilus; doff thy harness, youth:
I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry:
Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,[2293]
And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.[2294]
Unarm thee, go; and doubt thou not, brave boy, 35
I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy.

_Tro._ Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,
Which better fits a lion than a man.

_Hect._ What vice is that, good Troilus? chide me for it.[2295]

_Tro._ When many times the captive Grecian falls,[2296] 40
Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,[2297]
You bid them rise and live.[2298]

_Hect._ O, 'tis fair play.

_Tro._ Fool's play, by heaven, Hector.

_Hect._ How now! how now!

_Tro._ For the love of all the gods,[2299]
Let's leave the hermit pity with our mother;[2300] 45
And when we have our armours buckled on,
The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,[2301]
Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth![2302]

_Hect._ Fie, savage, fie!

_Tro._ Hector, then 'tis wars.[2303]

_Hect._ Troilus, I would not have you fight to-day. 50

_Tro._ Who should withhold me?[2304]
Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars
Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;
Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,
Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears; 55
Nor you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,
Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,
But by my ruin.

_Re-enter_ CASSANDRA, _with_ PRIAM.[2305]

_Cas._ Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:[2306]
He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay, 60
Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,
Fall all together.

_Pri._ Come, Hector, come, go back:[2307]
Thy wife hath dream'd; thy mother hath had visions;
Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself
Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt, 65
To tell thee that this day is ominous:
Therefore, come back.

_Hect._ Æneas is afield;[2308]
And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,
Even in the faith of valour, to appear
This morning to them.

_Pri._ Ay, but thou shalt not go.[2309] 70

_Hect._ I must not break my faith.
You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,
Let me not shame respect; but give me leave
To take that course by your consent and voice,
Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam. 75

_Cas._ O Priam, yield not to him!

_And._ Do not, dear father.

_Hect._ Andromache, I am offended with you:
Upon the love you bear me, get you in. [_Exit Andromache._

_Tro._ This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.

_Cas._ O, farewell, dear Hector! 80
Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale![2310]
Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents![2311]
Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out![2312]
How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth![2313]
Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,[2314] 85
Like witless antics, one another meet,
And all cry 'Hector! Hector's dead! O Hector!'

_Tro._ Away! away![2315]

_Cas._ Farewell: yet, soft! Hector, I take my leave:[2316]
Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive. [_Exit._ 90

_Hect._ You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim:
Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and fight,[2317]
Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.[2318]

_Pri._ Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!

[_Exeunt severally Priam and Hector. Alarum._[2319]

_Tro._ They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,[2320] 95
I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.

_Enter_ PANDARUS.[2321]

_Pan._ Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?[2322][2323]

_Tro._ What now?[2322]

_Pan._ Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.[2322]

_Tro._ Let me read.[2322][2324] 100

_Pan._ A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so[2322][2325]
troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl; and what[2322]
one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o' these[2322][2326]
days: and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an[2322]
ache in my bones that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot[2322] 105
tell what to think on't. What says she there?[2322]

_Tro._ Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart;[2322]
The effect doth operate another way. [_Tearing the letter._[2322][2327]
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.[2322]
My love with words and errors still she feeds,[2322][2328] 110
But edifies another with her deeds. [_Exeunt severally._[2322][2329]

SCENE IV. _The field between Troy and the Grecian camp._

_Alarums. Excursions. Enter_ THERSITES.[2330]

_Ther._ Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go
look on. That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has
got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's sleeve of[2331][2332]
Troy there in his helm: I would fain see them meet; that[2332]
that same young Trojan ass, that loves the whore there, 5
might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain, with the
sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless
errand. O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty[2333]
swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese,[2334]
Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is not proved worth[2335] 10
a blackberry. They set me up in policy that mongrel
cur, Ajax, against that dog of as bad a kind, Achilles: and
now is the cur Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will
not arm to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim[2336]
barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion. 15

_Enter_ DIOMEDES _and_ TROILUS.[2337]

Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other.[2338]

_Tro._ Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx,[2339]
I would swim after.[2339]

_Dio._ Thou dost miscall retire:
I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:[2340] 20
Have at thee![2340]

_Ther._ Hold thy whore, Grecian! Now for thy whore,
Trojan! Now the sleeve, now the sleeve!

[_Exeunt Troilus and Diomedes, fighting._[2341]

_Enter_ HECTOR.

_Hect._ What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?[2342]
Art thou of blood and honour? 25

_Ther._ No, no: I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave;[2343]
a very filthy rogue.[2343]

_Hect._ I do believe thee. Live. [_Exit._[2344]

_Ther._ God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a
plague break thy neck for frighting me! What's become of[2345] 30
the wenching rogues? I think they have swallowed one
another: I would laugh at that miracle: yet in a sort
lechery eats itself. I'll seek them. [_Exit._

SCENE V. _Another part of the field._

_Enter_ DIOMEDES _and_ Servant.[2346]

_Dio._ Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;[2347]
Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
And am her knight by proof.

_Ser._ I go, my lord. [_Exit._ 5

_Enter_ AGAMEMNON.[2348]

_Agam._ Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas[2349]
Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Hath Doreus prisoner,[2350]
And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
Upon the pashed corses of the kings[2351] 10
Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain;[2352]
Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt;[2353]
Patroclus ta'en or slain; and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful sagittary[2354]
Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed, 15
To reinforcement, or we perish all.

_Enter_ NESTOR.

_Nest._ Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles,[2355]
And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
There is a thousand Hectors in the field:[2356]
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse, 20
And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls[2357]
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,[2358]
Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:[2359] 25
Here, there and every where he leaves and takes,[2360]
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much[2361]
That proof is call'd impossibility.

_Enter_ ULYSSES.

_Ulyss._ O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles 30
Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,[2355]
Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend, 35
And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd, and at it,
Roaring for Troilus; who hath done to-day
Mad and fantastic execution,
Engaging and redeeming of himself,
With such a careless force and forceless care, 40
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,[2362][2363]
Bade him win all.[2362]

_Enter_ AJAX.

_Ajax._ Troilus! thou coward Troilus! [_Exit._[2364]

_Dio._ Ay, there, there.

_Nest._ So, so, we draw together.[2365]

_Enter_ ACHILLES.

_Achil._ Where is this Hector?
Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;[2366] 45
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
Hector! where's Hector? I will none but Hector. [_Exeunt._[2367]

SCENE VI. _Another part of the field._[2368]

_Enter_ AJAX.

_Ajax._ Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head![2369]

_Enter_ DIOMEDES.

_Dio._ Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?[2370]

_Ajax._ What wouldst thou?

_Dio._ I would correct him.

_Ajax._ Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office[2371]
Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus! 5

_Enter_ TROILUS.

_Tro._ O traitor Diomed! Turn thy false face, thou traitor.
And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse.[2372]

_Dio._ Ha, art thou there?

_Ajax._ I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed.

_Dio._ He is my prize; I will not look upon.[2373] 10

_Tro._ Come both, you cogging Greeks; have at you
both! [_Exeunt, fighting._

_Enter_ HECTOR.[2374]

_Hect._ Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!

_Enter_ ACHILLES.

_Achil._ Now do I see thee; ha! have at thee, Hector![2375]

_Hect._ Pause, if thou wilt.[2376]

_Achil._ I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan: 15
Be happy that my arms are out of use:
My rest and negligence befriends thee now,[2377]
But thou anon shalt hear of me again;[2378]
Till when, go seek thy fortune. [_Exit._[2379]

_Hect._ Fare thee well:
I would have been much more a fresher man,[2380] 20
Had I expected thee.

_Re-enter_ TROILUS.[2381]

How now, my brother!

_Tro._ Ajax hath ta'en Æneas: shall it be?
No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,
He shall not carry him; I'll be ta'en too,[2382]
Or bring him off. Fate, hear me what I say![2378] 25
I reck not though I end my life to-day. [_Exit._

_Enter one in sumptuous armour._[2383]

_Hect._ Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark.[2384]
No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;[2385]
I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all,[2386]
But I'll be master of it. Wilt thou not, beast, abide? 30
Why then, fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide. [_Exeunt._[2387]

SCENE VII. _Another part of the field._[2388]

_Enter_ ACHILLES, _with_ Myrmidons.

_Achil._ Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:
Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:
And when I have the bloody Hector found,
Empale him with your weapons round about; 5
In fellest manner execute your aims.[2389]
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:[2390]
It is decreed Hector the great must die. [_Exeunt._

_Enter_ MENELAUS _and_ PARIS, _fighting: then_ THERSITES.[2391]

_Ther._ The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it.[2392]
Now, bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my[2393][2394] 10
double-henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the game:[2393][2395]
ware horns, ho! [_Exeunt Paris and Menelaus._

_Enter_ MARGARELON.[2396]

_Mar._ Turn, slave, and fight.[2397]

_Ther._ What art thou?

_Mar._ A bastard son of Priam's.[2397] 15

_Ther._ I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard[2398]
begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in[2398]
valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite
another, and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed,
the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight[2399] 20
for a whore, he tempts judgement: farewell, bastard. [_Exit._[2400]

_Mar._ The devil take thee, coward! [_Exit._[2397][2401]

SCENE VIII. _Another part of the field._[2402]

_Enter_ HECTOR.

_Hect._ Most putrefied core, so fair without,
Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.
Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:[2403]
Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death.

[_Puts off his helmet and hangs his shield behind him._

_Enter_ ACHILLES _and_ Myrmidons.[2404]

_Achil._ Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set;[2405] 5
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:
Even with the vail and darking of the sun,[2406]
To close the day up, Hector's life is done.[2407]

_Hect._ I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek.

_Achil._ Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek. 10

[_Hector falls._[2408]

So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down![2409]
Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.
On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain,[2410]
'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.' [_A retreat sounded._[2411]
Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.[2412] 15

_Myr._ The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.[2413]

_Achil._ The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,
And stickler-like the armies separates.[2414]
My half-supp'd sword that frankly would have fed,[2415]
Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed. 20

[_Sheathes his sword._[2415][2416]

Come, tie his body to my horse's tail;
Along the field I will the Trojan trail.

[_Exeunt. A retreat sounded._[2417]

SCENE IX. _Another part of the field._

_Enter_ AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, _and
the rest, marching. Shouts within._[2418]

_Agam._ Hark! hark! what shout is that?[2419][2420]

_Nest._ Peace, drums![2419]

[_Within_] 'Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles!'[2419][2421]

_Dio._ The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.[2422]

_Ajax._ If it be so, yet bragless let it be; 5
Great Hector was a man as good as he.[2423]

_Agam._ March patiently along: let one be sent[2424]
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. 10

[_Exeunt, marching._[2425]

SCENE X. _Another part of the field._

_Enter_ ÆNEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, _and_ DEIPHOBUS.[2426]

_Æne._ Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:
Never go home; here starve we out the night.[2427]

_Enter_ TROILUS.

_Tro._ Hector is slain.[2427]

_All._ Hector! The gods forbid!

_Tro._ He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail
In beastly sort dragg'd through the shameful field. 5
Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed!
Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy![2428]
I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy,[2428]
And linger not our sure destructions on!

_Æne._ My lord, you do discomfort all the host. 10

_Tro._ You understand me not that tell me so:
I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death,[2429]
But dare all imminence that gods and men
Address their dangers in. Hector is gone:
Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba? 15
Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd,[2430]
Go in to Troy, and say there 'Hector's dead:'[2431]
There is a word will Priam turn to stone,
Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,[2432]
Cold statues of the youth, and, in a word,[2433] 20
Scare Troy out of itself. But march away:[2434][2435]
Hector is dead; there is no more to say.[2435]
Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,[2436]
Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,[2437]
Let Titan rise as early as he dare, 25
I'll through and through you! and, thou great-sized coward,
No space of earth shall sunder our two hates:
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts.[2438]
Strike a free march to Troy! with comfort go:[2439] 30
Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.

[_Exeunt Æneas and Trojans._

_As_ TROILUS _is going out, enter, from the other side_, PANDARUS.[2440]

_Pan._ But hear you, hear you![2441]

_Tro._ Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame[2442]
Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name! [_Exit._[2443]

_Pan._ A goodly medicine for my aching bones![2444] 35
O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised! O[2445]
traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and[2446]
how ill requited! why should our endeavour be so loved[2447]
and the performance so loathed? what verse for it? what
instance for it? Let me see: 40

Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,[2448]
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.

Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths:[2449] 45
As many as be here of Pandar's hall,
Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;[2450]
Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.[2451]
Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,[2452] 50
Some two months hence my will shall here be made:
It should be now, but that my fear is this,
Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:
Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,[2453]
And at that time bequeath you my diseases. [_Exit._[2454] 55

FOOTNOTES:

[2120] ACT V. SCENE I.] Rowe. om. Q Ff.

The ... tent.] Rowe, substantially.

[2121] _I'll ... tonight_] _With Greekish wine to-night I'll heat his blood_ Steevens conj.

[2122] _Which ... to-morrow._] Omitted in F₄ and Rowe (ed. 1).

_scimitar_] Rowe (ed. 2). _cemitar_ Q F₁. _semitar_ F₂ F₃.

[2123] _core_] Ff. _curre_ Q.

[2124] _batch_] _botch_ Theobald. _patch_ Becket conj.

[2125] _idol_] _thou idol_ Keightley.

[2126] _adversity_] _perversity_ Collier conj.

_need these_] Ff. _needs this_ Q.

[2127] _boy_] Ff. _box_ Q.

[2128] _thought_] Ff. _said_ Q.

_Achilles'_] _Achilles_ Q Ff. _Achilles's_ F₄.

[2129] _varlet_] F₄. _varlot_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _harlot_ Theobald (Thirlby conj.)

[2130] _rotten_] _rotted_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2131] _the guts-griping, ruptures_] Capell. _the guts griping ruptures_ Q. _guts-griping Ruptures_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Guts-griping, Ruptures_ F₄.

_catarrhs_] F₄. _catarres_ F₁ F₂ F₃. om. Q.

[2132] _o'_] F₄. _a_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _of_ Capell.

_i' the_] _i' th'_ Ff. _in_ the Q.

_back_] Q. _backe_ F₁. _backs_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2133] _raw eyes ... tetter,_] Q. _and the like,_ Ff.

[2134] _wheezing_] _whissing_ Q.

[2135] _limekilns_] _lime-kills_ Q.

[2136] _discoveries_] _debaucheries_ Hanmer. _discoverers_ Singer. _discolourers_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[2137] _mean'st_] Ff. _meanes_ Q.

[2138] _butt_] F₃ F₄. _but_ Q F₁ F₂. _burr._ Long MS. _bott_ Becket conj.

[2139] _no._] Q. om. Ff.

[2140] _sleave_] _sleive_ Q. _sleyd_ Ff. _sley'd_ Rowe.

_sarcenet_] _sacenet_ Q.

[2141] _tassel_] F₁. _tossell_ Q F₂ F₃. _tossel_ F₄.

[2142] _Out, gall!_] _Out gall._ Q Ff. _Nut-gall!_ Hanmer.

[2143] _thwarted_] _th'warted_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2144] _Greeks_] _Greekes_ Q F₁. _Greeke_ F₂. _Greek_ F₃ F₄.

[2145] _This ... Patroclus!_] As in Ff. One line in Q.

[2146] [Exeunt ...] Hanmer. Exit. Ff. Ex. Theobald.

[2147] _quails_] _quarrels_ or _squalls_ Warburton conj.

[2148] _goodly_] Q F₁ F₂. _good_ F₃ F₄.

[2149] _his brother, the_] Ff. _his be the_ Q.

[2150] _oblique_] _antique_ Hanmer. _obelisque_ Warburton. _Job-like_ Becket conj.

[2151] _shoeing-horn_] _shooting-horn_ Rowe.

_hanging at his brother's_] Ff. _at his bare_ Q.

[2152] _is_] _is of_ Hanmer.

[2153] _forced_] Ff. _faced_ Q. _farced_ Pope.

_to?_] F₃ F₄. _to:_ Q F₂. _too:_ F₁.

[2154] _he is both ox_] _her's both Oxe_ Q.

[2155] _a dog ... a fitchew_] Ff. _a day, a Moyle, a Cat, a Fichooke_ Q.

[2156] _lizard_] Ff. _lezard_ Q.

_roe_] Ff. _rowe_ Q.

[2157] _Menelaus_] _a Menelaus_ Johnson.

[2158] _not what_] Ff. _what_ Q.

[2159] _Hoy-day_] Ff. _Hey-day_ Q. _Holy-day_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_spirits_] Ff. _sprites_ Q.

Hector, Troilus, Ajax,] Theobald. Hector, Ajax, Ff. om. Q.

Menelaus,] Capell om. Q Ff.

[2160] SCENE II. Pope.

[2161] _We ... 'tis; ... There ... you._] As in Capell. As three lines, ending _wrong, ... lights ... you._ in Q Ff.

[2162] _lights_] Q. _light_ Ff.

[2163] Re-enter....] Dyce (at the end of the line). Enter ... Ff. om. Q.

[2164] _good night_] _God night_ Q.

[2165] _to tend_] _who tend_ Anon, conj.

[2166] _Greeks'_] _Greek's_ F₄.

[2167] _sweet Lord_] _sweet_ Capell.

[2168] _draught_] _draff_ Hanmer. _drought_ Johnson.

[2169] _sewer_] Rowe. _sure_ Q Ff.

[2170] _Good ... tarry._] Verse first by Theobald. Prose in Q Ff.

[2171] _at once_] Ff. Omitted in Q.

[2172] _or tarry_] _and tarry_ Pope (ed. 2).

[2173] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt Agam: Menelaus. Q. om. Ff.

[2174] _and you too_] Ff. _and you to_ Q. _you too_ Pope.

[2175] [Aside to Troilus] To Troilus. Rowe. Marked as 'aside' by Capell.

[2176] _Follow ... company._] As in Ff. Prose in Q. Steevens ends the lines _goes ... company, ... night._

[2177] _Calchas'_] _Calchas's_ F₄.

[2178] [Exit ...] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[2179] [Exeunt ... Nestor.] Capell. Exeunt. Q Ff. Exeunt severally, all but Thersites. Hanmer.

[2180] _it; it is_] _it, it is_ Q. _it, that it is_ Ff.

[2181] _sun_] F₃ F₄. _Sonne_ Q. _Sunne_ F₁ F₂.

[2182] _Calchas'_] Capell. _Calcas_ Q. _Chalcas his_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Calchas his_ F₄.

_after._] _after--_ Q Ff.

[2183] _varlets_] Ff. _varlots_ Q.

[2184] SCENE II.] Rowe. SCENE III. Pope.

The same ...] Capell. Calchas Tent. Rowe.

Enter Diomedes.] Enter Diomed. Q Ff.

[2185] _What, are_] Hanmer. _What are_ Q Ff.

[2186] [Within] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[2187] _I think_] om. Capell.

_Where's_] _Where is_ Capell.

_your_] Q F₃ F₄. _you_ F₁ F₂.

[2188] Enter Troilus ...] Capell. Enter Troylus and Ulisses. Ff. Omitted in Q. Enter Troilus and Ulysses, after them Thersites. Rowe. Enter Tr. & U., [undiscover'd by Diomede,] after them Th., [unseen by Tr. & U.] Johnson.

[2189] Enter Cressida.] Enter Cressid. Ff. After _him_, line 6, in Q.

[2190] _comes ... him._] Q F₁. _come ... him._ F₂ F₃ F₄. _come ... him!_ Rowe.

[2191] [Whispers.] Rowe. om. Q F.

[2192] _any_] _to any_ Rowe.

[2193] _may ... noted_] As one line by Capell.

_sing her ... cliff_] Q. _finde her ... life_ Ff. _sing to her ... cliff_ Pope. _find her key ... cleft_ Collier MS.

[2194] See note (XIV).

[2195] Cres.] F₂ F₃ F₄. Cal. Q F₁.

[2196] _Nay_] om. Steevens conj.

[2197] _And ... words_] As verse first by Capell.

[2198] _should_] Ff. _shall_ Q.

[2199] _forsworn._] _forsworne._ Q. _a forsworne.--_ F₁. _a forsworne--_ F₂. _a forsworn--_ F₃ F₄.

[2200] _cannot_] _can't_ Pope.

[2201] _any_] _not any_ F₁.

[2202] _Hold, patience_] F₄. _Hold patience_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃.

[2203] _one_] Ff. _a_ Q.

[2204] _pray you_] Ff. _pray_ Q.

[2205] _Nay, good_] Ff. _Now good_ Q. _Good_ Pope.

[2206] _flow to_] _show too_ Johnson conj.

_distraction_] _distruction_ Q.

[2207] _pray thee_] Ff. _prethee_ Q. _pr'ythee_ Pope.

[2208] _all hell's_] _all hells_ Q F₂ F₃ F₄. _hell_ F₁. _by hell's_ Pope.

[2209] _I_] om. Pope (ed. 1).

[2210] _Doth ... truth!_] As in Capell. One line in Q Ff.

[2211] _wither'd_] Rowe. _withered_ Q Ff.

_Why ... lord_] Ff. _How now my Lord_ Q.

[2212] _By ... patient_] As in Capell. One line in Q Ff.

[2213] _adieu_] F₃ F₄. _adew_ F₁ F₂. om. Q.

[2214] _You shake ... break out_] Verse in F₂ F₃ F₄. Prose in Q F₁.

[2215] _these_] om. Q.

[2216] _But_] om. Q.

[2217] _I will, la_] Theobald. _I will lo_ Q F₁. _I will goe_ F₂. _I will go_ F₃ F₄. _I will come_ Rowe. _I will, lord_ Collier MS.

[2218] _sweet lord_] Ff. _my Lord_ Q.

[2219] Re-enter ...] Enter ... Q Ff.

[2220] SCENE IV. Pope.

[2221] Tro. _I will ... will._] Omitted in Q.

[2222] Cres] Ff. Troy. Q.

[2223] _It is_] om. Steevens (1793).

_have't_] Ff. _ha't_ Q.

[2224] _have it_] _have it again_ Capell.

[2225] _in_] Ff. _on_ Q.

[2226] _And gives ... thee_] As in Ff. One line in Q.

[2227] [Diomedes snatches the sleeve. Warburton.

_As ... thee. Nay_] Dio. _As I kiss thee._ [Diomede kissing her, offers to snatch it.] Cress. _Nay_ Theobald conj.

_Nay ... me_] Continued to Cressida by Theobald (Thirlby conj.) In Q Ff it is given to 'Dio.'

[2228] _doth take_] Q. _rakes_ F₁. _takes_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _must take_ Pope.

[2229] Cres.] Omitted in Q.

[2230] _It is_] _'Tis_ Pope.

[2231] _one's_] _on's_ Q. _one_ Ff].

[2232] _Whose_] _But, whose_ Capell.

[2233] _By_] Ff. _And by_ Q.

_yond_] Q F₁. _yonder_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2234] _Why then ... starts you_] As in Ff. Prose in Q.

[2235] _shall_] _shalt_ F₂.

[2236] _Nor ... best_] As verse by Hanmer. Prose in Q Ff.

[2237] Ther.] Troi. Hanmer.

_not you_] Q. _not me_ Ff.

[2238] [Exit Diomedes.] Capell. Exit. Ff (after _then_). Omitted in Q.

[2239] _with ... eye_] _my heart with the other eye_ Johnson conj. _with the other eye my heart_ Tyrwhitt conj.

[2240] SCENE V. Pope.

[2241] _said_] Q. _say_ Ff.

[2242] _co-act_] _coact_ Ff. _Court_ Q.

[2243] _the attest_] _th' attest_ Q. _that test_ F₁ F₄. _that rest_ F₂ F₃.

[2244] _had deceptious_] Ff. _were deceptions_ Q.

[2245] _Created ... here?_] As in Ff. One line in Q.

[2246] _Most_] _It is most_ Steevens conj.

[2247] _madness._] Q F₃ F₄. _madnesse?_ F₁ F₂.

[2248] _the general_] _all the_ Pope.

[2249] _soil_] _soyle_ Ff. _spoile_ Q.

[2250] _a'_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

_on's_] _of his_ Pope.

[2251] _Diomed's Cressida_] _Diomedes' Cressid_ Hanmer.

[2252] _be sanctimonies_] Q. _are sanctimonie_ Ff. _be sanctimony_ Johnson.

[2253] _unity_] _purity_ or _verity_ Johnson conj.

[2254] _This is_] Ff. _This was_ Q.

[2255] _sets_] _set'st_ Hanmer.

_with_] Q. _with,_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _with;_ F₂.

_itself!_] _it selfe,_ Q. _thy selfe_ F₁. _thy selfe,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _thy self!_ Pope.

[2256] _Bi-fold_] _By-fould_ Q. _By foule_ F₁ F₂. _By foul_ F₃ F₄.

_authority!_] Pope. _authority:_ Q F₂ F₃ F₄. _authoritie:_ F₁.

[2257] _can ... reason_] _can Revolt without perdition, loss assume Reason_ Hanmer.

[2258] _and_] om. Pope.

[2259] _conduce_] _commence_ Rowe.

[2260] _more_] _far_ Pope.

[2261] _Admits ... enter_] _Subtile as Arachne's unbroken woof, Admits no orifice for a point to enter_ Becket conj. _As subtle as Arachne's broken woof, Admits no orifice for a point to enter_ Keightley.

[2262] _orifex_] Q F₁. _orifece_ F₂. _orifice_ F₃ F₄.

[2263] _Ariachne's_] _Ariachnes_ Ff. _Ariachna's_ Q. _Ariathna's_ Q (Steevens's copy in Brit. Mus.) _slight Arachne's_ Pope. _is Arachne's_ Capell. _Ariadne's_ or _Arachnea's_ Steevens conj. _was Arachne's_ Anon. conj.

[2264] _five-finger-tied,_] _fine finger tied,_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _finde singer tied,_ Q. _five finger'd tied,_ F₄. _five finger'd tied:_ Rowe (ed. 1). _five finger tied:_ Rowe (ed. 2). _five-finger-tied:_ Pope.

[2265] _faith_] _truth_ or _troth_ S. Walker conj.

_bound_] Ff. _given_ Q.

[2266] _half_] _but half_ S. Walker conj.

_attach'd_] Rowe. _attached_ Q Ff.

[2267] _never_] _ne'er_ Pope.

[2268] _as I_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _I_ Q F₁.

_Cressid_] Q. _Cressida_ Ff.

[2269] _on_] Q. _in_ Ff.

[2270] _sun_] _sunne_ Q. _Fenne_ F₁ F₂. _Fenn_ F₃ F₄. _finger_ Rowe.

[2271] _Shall ... Diomed_] As in Ff. Two lines in Q, ending _discent ... Diomed._

[2272] _it_] _him_ Delius conj.

[2273] _stays_] _stales_ F₂.

[2274] SCENE III.] Rowe. SCENE VI. Pope.

Troy.] Rowe.

Before Priam's palace.] Capell. The Palace in Troy. Theobald.

[2275] _in_] Q. _gone_ Ff.

[2276] _all_] Q. om Ff.

[2277] _to the day_] _to day_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2278] _Consort_] _Comsort_ F₂.

[2279] _Hath nothing been_] _Have nothing seen_ Anon. apud Rann conj.

[2280] Cas.] Cres. Q.

[2281] _O, be ... thefts_] _O, be ... holy: To hurt ... just, count it unlawful: For we would give as much to violent thefts_ Anon. conj.

[2282] _holy_] _holy,_ Q Ff.

[2283] _holy To hurt ... And rob_] _holy: To hurt, by being just, count it unlawful: For we would give, as much, to violent thefts, And rob_ Taylor conj. _holy To hurt ... lawful, To use violent thefts, and count it much To rob_ Halliwell conj.

[2284] _To hurt ... charity_] Omitted in Q.

_it is ... charity_] Erased in Collier MS.

[2285] _is_] _were_ Rowe.

[2286] _as lawful, For ... thefts_] Malone (Tyrwhitt conj.) _as lawfull: For we would count giue much to as violent thefts_ Ff. _as lawful For us to count we give what's gain'd by thefts_ Rowe. _as lawful, For we would give much, to count violent thefts_ Knight. _as lawful, For us to give much count to violent thefts_ Collier, ed. 1 (Amyot conj.) _as lawful, For we would countenance give to violent thefts_ Collier conj. _as lawful as (For we would give much) to commit violent thefts_ Anon. conj. _as lawful (For we would give much) to commit violent thefts_ Singer. _as lawful_ [a line omitted] _For we would give as much to violent thefts_ Delius. _as lawful, For we would give much, to count as virtues thefts_ Hudson conj. _as lawful, For ... threats_ Jervis conj. _as lawful, For much to give, to compass violent thefts_ Anon. ap. Fras. Mag. conj. _as lawful, For we would give much, to so count violent thefts_ Verplanck. _as lawful For we would give much, to compass violent thefts_ Nicholson conj. _unlawful: For we'd give much count so to violent thefts_ Keightley.

[2287] Cas.] om. Q, continuing the speech to Andromache.

[2288] _Unarm_] _Vnatme_[F₁.

[2289] _of_] _off_ Steevens conj.

[2290] _dear man_] F₃ F₄. _deere man_ Q F₁ F₂. _brave man_ Pope. _dere man_ Becket conj. _true man_ Anon. conj.

[2291] _precious-dear_] F₃ F₄. _precious-deere_ F₂. _precious deere_ Q. _precious, deere_ F₁.

[2292] _mean'st_] Ff. _meanest_ Q.

[2293] _grow_] _go_ Pope (ed. 2).

[2294] _brushes_] _bruises_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[2295] _that, good Troilus?_] Capell. _that? good Troylus_ Q Ff.

[2296] _captive Grecian falls_] _captive Grecians fall_ Rowe. _caitiff Grecians fall_ Warburton (Theobald conj.)

[2297] _fair_] _fear'd_ Anon. conj.

[2298] _them_] _him_ Anon. conj.

[2299] _For the love_] _For th' love_ Q Ff. _For love_ Pope.

[2300] _mother_] Q. _mothers_ Ff.

[2301] _The_] _Then_ Anon. conj.

[2302] _ruthful_] _ruthfull_ Q F₁. _ruefull_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _wrathful_ Anon. conj.

[2303] _fie!_] _fye, fye!_ Keightley.

_Hector, then 'tis_] _Hector, thus 'tis in_ Pope. _Why, Hector, then 'tis_ Steevens conj.

[2304] _Who should_] _Who is there, brother, tell me, should_ Seymour conj.

[2305] _But ... ruin._] Ff. Omitted in Q.

Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter Priam and Cassandra. Q Ff.

[2306] SCENE VII. Pope.

[2307] _Come, Hector_] _Hector_ Pope.

[2308] _afield_] _a-field_ F₃ F₄. _a field_ Q F₁ F₂.

[2309] _Ay, but_] _But_ Pope.

[2310] _eye turns_] _eyes turn_ Rowe.

[2311] _do_] _doth_ F₁.

[2312] _how_] _ho_ F₂.

[2313] _dolours_] Q. _dolour_ Ff.

[2314] _distraction_] Ff. _destruction_ Q.

[2315] _Away! away!_] _Away, away._ Q F₁. _Away._ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2316] _yet_] Q F₃ F₄. _yes_ F₁ F₂.

[2317] _Go in ... fight_] As in Ff. Two lines in Q.

[2318] _worth_] Q. _of_ Ff.

[2319] [Exeunt ... Hector.] Malone. Exit Priam. Capell. Omitted in Q Ff.

_Alarum._] Q Ff. _Alarums._ Capell. _Alarm._ Johnson.

[2320] _They are_] _They're_ Pope.

[2321] Enter Pandarus.] Enter Pandar. Q Ff. As Troilus is going out, enter, from the other side, Pandarus. Malone.

[2322] Pan. _Do you ... deeds._] Transferred by Capell to follow _inward woe,_ line 31, of the last scene of the play.

[2323] SCENE VIII. Pope.

Pan.] Pad. F₂.

[2324] [taking it. Capell.

[2325] _tisick_] _ptisick_ Rowe.

[2326] _o' these_] Rowe. _ath's_ Q. _o' th's_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄.

[2327] [Tearing the letter.] Rowe. Omitted in Q Ff.

[2328] _errors_] _air_ Collier MS.

[2329] See note (XV).

[Exeunt severally.] Malone. Exeunt. Q. A Larum. Exeunt. F₁. Alarum. Exeunt. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2330] SCENE IV.]Rowe. SCENE IX. Pope.

The field ...] Rowe.

Alarums.] Capell. Alarum. Rowe (from Ff). om. Q.

Excursions. Enter Thersites.] Enter Thersites: excursions. Q. Enter Thersites in excursion. Ff.

[2331] _young_] Ff. om. Q.

[2332] _knave's ... Troy_] _knave of Troy's sleeve_ Anon. conj.

[2333] _errand_] Hanmer. _arrant_ Q. _errant_ Ff.

_O' the t'other_] _Ath' tother_ Q. _O' th' tother_ Ff. _O' th' other_ Theobald.

[2334] _swearing_] _sneering_ Theobald. _swerving_ Becket conj. _fleering_ Collier conj. _sneaking_ Anon. conj.

_stale_] Q F₃ F₄. _stole_ F₁ F₂.

_cheese_] _cheefe_ F₂.

[2335] _not proved_] _proved not_ Anon. conj.

[2336] _begin_] Rowe (ed. 2). _began_ Q Ff.

[2337] _Enter...._] om. Q.

[2338] _and t'other_] _and tother_ Q. _and th' other_ Ff. _and sleeveless_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[2339] _Fly ... after._] As in Ff. Prose in Q.

[2340] _Withdrew ... thee!_] As in Ff. One line in Q.

[2341] _sleeve, ... sleeve!_] _sleeve, ... sleeve, now the sleeve._ Rowe (ed. 2). _sleeve! ... sleeveless!_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[Exeunt....] Capell. They go off fighting. Rowe (after line 21). Omitted in Q Ff.

[2342] SCENE X. Pope.

_thou_] om. Q.

[2343] _No ... rogue._] As verse in Capell.

[2344] [Exit.] Rowe. om. Q Ff.

[2345] _neck for_] _neck--for_ Q Ff.

[2346] SCENE V.] Capell. The earlier editions continue the scene.

Another ...] Another ... plain. Dyce. The same. Capell.

Enter ...] Alarums. Enter ... Capell.

Servant.] Q F₂ F₃ F₄. Servants. F₁.

[2347] _Troilus'_] _Troilus's_ F₄.

[2348] Ser.] Ff. Man. Q.

[Exit.] Hanmer. om. Q Ff.

Enter A.] Ff. Enter A. Q, after _proof._

[2349] SCENE XI. Pope.

_Polydamas_] Pope. _Polidamas_ Q. _Polidamus_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Polydamus_ F₄.

[2350] Marked by Keightley as an imperfect line.

[2351] _kings_] _kings,_ F₃ F₄. _kings:_ Q F₁ F₂.

[2352] _Epistrophus_] Steevens. _Epistropus_ Q Ff.

_Cedius:_] Capell. _Cedus,_ Q Ff. _Cedus:_ Rowe. _Odius._ Pope.

_Polyxenes_] Dyce. _Polixines_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _Polyxines_ F₄. _Polyxenus_ Pope.

[2353] _Thoas_] Pope. _Thous_ Q Ff.

[2354] _bruised_] Q Ff. _bruis'd_ Pope.

[2355] _Patroclus'_] _Patroclus's_ F₄.

[2356] _is_] _are_ Rowe.

[2357] _scaled_] Ff. _scaling_ Q (for _scaly_ Collier conj.)

_sculls_] Q. _sculs_ Ff. _shoals_ Pope. _schools_ Anon. conj.

[2358] _strawy_] Q. _straying_ Ff.

[2359] _the_] Ff. _a_ Q.

[2360] _leaves_] _cleaves_ Staunton conj.

[2361] _will_] _wills_ Capell conj.

[2362] _As ... all._] As in Rowe (ed. 2). One line in Q Ff.

[2363] _luck_] Ff. _lust_ Q.

[2364] SCENE XII. Pope.

Ajax.] om. Q.

[2365] _together._] Capell. _together._ Exit. Q Ff. _together._ Exeunt. Rowe.

[2366] _boy-queller_] _boy-quiller_ F₃. _boy-killer_ F₄.

_show_] _shew me_ Pope. _now show_ Anon. conj.

[2367] [Exeunt.] Capell. Exit. Q Ff.

[2368] SCENE VI.] Capell. Earlier eds. continue the scene.

Another....] Capell.

[2369] Ajax.] om. Q.

[2370] Dio.] om. Q.

[2371] _Were ... office_] One line in Q. Two in Ff.

[2372] _thy_] _the_ Capell.

_owest_] _ow'st_ Capell.

[2373] _He ... look upon._] _No, he ... look on._ Hanmer.

[2374] _Come both,_] Theobald. _Come both_ Q Ff. _Come, both_ Rowe.

[Exeunt, fighting.] Rowe. Exit Troylus. Ff. om. Q.

Enter Hector.] om. Q.

[2375] Achil.] om. Q.

_ha_] Q. om. Ff. _now_ Hanmer.

[2376] [Fight. Rowe.

[2377] _befriends_] Q F₁. _befriend_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2378] _hear_] _here_ Q.

[2379] [Exit.] Q F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2380] _much more a_] _a much more_ S. Walker conj.

[2381] Re-enter....] Re-enter Troilus, hastily. Capell. Enter Troylus. Q Ff.

[2382] _carry_] _carray_ F₂.

_ta'en_] _taken_ Rowe.

[2383] _reck_] Pope. _wreake_ Q F₁ F₂. _wreak_ F₃ F₄.

_I end_] Q. _thou end_ Ff.

Enter one in sumptuous armour.] Malone. Enter one in Armour. Q Ff. Alarums. Enter Grecians, and pass over; amongst them, one in goodly Armour. Capell.

[2384] _Stand ... mark._] One line in Q. Two in Ff.

[2385] _No?_] _Now?_ Johnson.

[2386] _rivets_] _rivers_ Rowe (ed. 2)

[2387] [Exeunt.] Malone. Exit. Q Ff.

[2388] SCENE VII.] Capell. Earlier eds. continue the scene.

Another....] Another ... plains. Dyce. The same. Capell.

[2389] _aims._] Capell. _armes_ Q F₂. _arme._ F₁. _arms._ F₃. _arms,_ F₄. See note (XVI).

[2390] _proceedings_] Q F₁. _proceeding_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[2391] _decreed_] Q. _decreed,_ Ff. _decreed--_ Rowe.

[Exeunt.] Pope. Exit. Q Ff.

Enter....] Malone. Alarums. Enter Paris, and Menelaus, fighting; Thersites after them. Capell. Enter Thersites, Menelaus and Paris. Q Ff (substantially).

[2392] SCENE XIII. Pope. SCENE VIII. Capell. Dyce first continued the scene.

[2393] _'Loo,_] Rowe. _lowe,_ or _low,_ Q Ff.

[2394] _now my_] _My_ Johnson.

[2395] _sparrow_] Ff. _spartan_ Q.

[2396] [Exeunt....] Hanmer. Exit.... Q Ff. Ex.... Pope.

Enter Margarelon.] Capell. Enter Bastard. Q Ff.

[2397] Mar.] Capell. Bast. Q Ff.

[2398] _a bastard begot_] Ff. _bastard begot_ Q.

[2399] _quarrel's_] Ff. _quarrells_ Q.

[2400] [Exit.] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[2401] _thee, coward_] _thee coward_ Q F₁. _the coward_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[Exit.] Q. Exeunt. Ff.

[2402] SCENE VIII.] Dyce. SCENE XIV. Pope. SCENE IX. Capell.

Another....] Capell.

[2403] _day's_] _dares_ F₂.

_good breath_] Ff. _my breth_ Q.

[2404] [Puts ... him.] Malone. Putting off his Helmet. Capell (after line 3).

and ... him.] and lays his sword aside. Collier.

Enter....] Q. Enter ... and his Myrmidons. Ff. Shouts within. Enter.... Capell.

[2405] _how_] _now_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[2406] _vail_] _vaile_ Q F₁ F₂. _veil_ F₃ F₄.

_darking_] Ff. _darkning_ Q.

[2407] [They fall upon Hector and kill him. Rowe. Assaulting him. Capell.

[2408] [Hector falls.] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[2409] _Ilion_] F₃ F₄. _Illion_ Q F₁ F₂.

_thou next! now_] Pope. _thou next, come_ Q. _thou: now_ Ff. _thou! now great_ Collier MS.

[2410] _and cry_] Q. _cry_ Ff.

[2411] [A retreat sounded.] Malone. Retreat. Q Ff. Retreat heard. Capell. Exeunt. Rowe (ed. 2) and Pope. Omitted by Theobald.

[2412] _retire_] Q. _retreat_ Ff.

_part_] _prat_ Q.

[2413] Myr.] Rowe. One: Q. Grec. Ff.

_Trojan trumpets sound_] Rowe. _Troyans trumpet sound_ Q. _Troian trumpets sounds_ Ff.

[2414] _separates_] _separate_ Pope.

[2415] _My ... bed._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[2416] _bait_] _baite_ Q. _bed_ F₁. _bitt_ F₂. _bit_ F₃ F₄.

[Sheathes....] Malone. Putting up.... Capell. om. Q Ff.

[2417] A retreat sounded.] Sound retreat. Shout. Ff. Omitted in Q.

[2418] SCENE IX.] Dyce. SCENE X. Capell. Earlier eds. continue the scene.

Another....] Another ... plains. Dyce. The same. Capell.

Shouts within.] Capell.

[2419] As two lines, the first ending _Achilles,_ in Steevens.

[2420] _what shout is that?_] Ff. _what is this?_ Q.

[2421] [Within] Capell. Sould: within. Q. Sold. Ff.

[2422] _Hector's_] F₁ F₂. _Hectors_ Q. _Hector_ F₃ F₄.

[2423] _a man as good_] Ff. _as good a man_ Q.

[2424] _patiently_] _hastily_ Warburton.

[2425] [Exeunt, marching.] Capell. Exeunt. Q Ff.

[2426] SCENE X.] Dyce. SCENE XV. Pope. SCENE XI. Capell.

Another....] Another ... Field; under Troy. Capell.

Enter....] Q Ff. Enter Trojans, confusedly; to them, Æneas. Capell. (and, om. Q).

Deiphobus] Diephobus. Q. Deiphœbus. F₁.

[2427] _Never ... slain._] Ff. Enter Troylus. Troy. _Never ... night, Hector is slaine._ Q.

[2428] _smile at Troy! I say, at once_] Malone (Theobald, substantially). _smile at Troy. I say at once,_ Q Ff. _smite all Troy I say at once;_ Hanmer. _smite at Troy, I say, at once._ Warburton. _smite all Troy; Ay, slay at once;_ Lettsom conj.

[2429] _of fear, of_] _of feare, of_ Ff. _of feare of_ Q. _or fear of_ Anon. conj.

[2430] _screech-owl_] _scrich-ould_ Q.

[2431] _in to_] Ff. _into_ Q.

_there_] Ff. _their_ Q.

[2432] _wells and Niobes_] _wells and Niobe's_ Q. _wels, and Niobes_ F₁ F₂. _wells, and Niobes_ F₃. _wells, and Niob's_ F₄. _wells and rivers_ Hanmer. _welling Niobes_ Warburton. _welland Niobes_ Anon. apud Whalley conj.

[2433] _Cold_] _Could_ Q. _Coole_ F₁ F₂. _Cool_ F₃ F₄.

[2434] _Scare_] F₃ F₄. _Scarre_ Q F₁ F₂.

[2435] _But ... dead_] Ff. Omitted in Q.

[2436] _yet. You_] _yet: you_ Ff. _yet you_ Q. _yet, you_ Rowe.

_vile_] Ff. _proud_ Q.

[2437] _pight_] Ff. _pitcht_ Q.

[2438] _goblins_] _goblings_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_frenzy's_] _frienzes_ Q. _frensies_ Ff. _frenzy_ Capell.

[2439] _march to Troy! with_] _march to Troy, with_ Ff. _march, to Troy with_ Q.

[2440] [Exeunt ... Pandarus.] As they are going out, and Troilus last, Enter Pandarus. Capell. Enter Pandarus. Q Ff. See note (XVII).

[2441] _hear ... hear_] _here ... here_ Q.

[2442] _broker-lackey_] Dyce. _broker lacquey_ Johnson. _broker, lacky_ Q. _broker, lackie_ F₁. _brother, lacky_ F₂. _brothel, lacky_ F₃ F₄. _brothel-lacquy_ Theobald.

_ignomy and shame_] _ignomy, and shame_ F₁ F₂. _ignomyny, shame_ Q. _ignominy, and shame_ F₃. _ignominy and shame_ F₄.

[Strikes him. Rowe.

[2443] [Exit.] Capell. Exeunt all but Pandarus Q. Exeunt. Ff.

[2444] _my aching bones_] _my aking bones_ Q. _mine akingbones_ F₁ F₃. _mine a kingbones_ F₂. _mine aking bones_ F₄.

[2445] _world! world! world!_] _world, world, world!_ Ff. _world, world--_ Q.

[2446] _a-work_] _aworke_ F₁ F₂. _a worke_ Q. _a work_ F₃ F₄. _at work_ Rowe.

[2447] _loved_] _lov'd_ Q. _desir'd_ Ff.

[2448] _And_] _But_ Rowe.

[2449] _cloths_] Rowe (ed. 2). _cloathes_ Q F₁ F₂. _cloaths_ F₃ F₄.

[2450] _Pandar's_] _Pindar's_ Rowe (ed. 1).

[2451] _your_] Ff. _my_ Q.

[2452] _hold-door_] _hold-dore_ Ff. _Hold-ore_ Q.

[2453] _sweat_] _sweate_ Q F₁. _sweare_ F₂. _swear_ F₃ F₄.

[2454] [Exit.] Rowe (ed. 2). Exeunt. Ff. om. Q.

NOTES.

NOTE I.

The Folios have 'The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida' as title of the play. In the first three the prologue precedes the title. In the fourth the order is reversed. In the third and fourth 'Troylus' is spelt 'Troilus,' both here and in the body of the play. Some copies of the Quarto have 'The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid,' others 'The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida,' as first title, while the running title in all is, 'The History of Troylus and Cresseida.' The play is not divided into Acts and Scenes either in the Quarto or the Folios, excepting that the latter have _Actus Primus, Scæna Prima_, at the beginning.

In the spelling of 'Trojan' we have conformed to modern usage. In the Quarto it is uniformly 'Troyan' and usually 'Troian' in the first Folio.

NOTE II.

I. 3. 238. The reading of the Quarto given in the note at the foot of the page is that of Capell's copy, in which the final 's' of 'swords' has failed to take the ink. In the Duke of Devonshire's copy the 's' is visible but imperfect.

NOTE III.

I. 3. 357-365. The Quarto reads as follows:

'Giue pardon to my speech? therefore tis meete,
_Achilles_ meete not _Hector_, let vs like Marchants
First shew foule wares, and thinke perchance theile sell;
If not; the luster of the better shall exceed,
By shewing the worse first: do not consent,
That euer _Hector_ and _Achilles_ meet,
For both our honour and our shame in this, are dog'd with
two strange followers.'

Capell adopts the Quarto reading, putting 'If not' in a line by itself.

NOTE IV.

II. 2. 22. This misprint of Theobald's was repeated in every edition, except those of Hanmer and Capell, down to that of Harness, 1825, inclusive. Mr Knight made the necessary correction. We have left unnoticed many similar instances.

NOTE V.

II. 3. 74. Mr Dyce suggests that the reading 'sate' of the Quarto was a mistake for 'rates.'

NOTE VI.

II. 3. 130-133. Both the Quarto and the Folios put a full stop at _report_, a colon at _war_, and a full stop or colon at _giant_: a punctuation which was followed substantially by Rowe and Pope. Theobald first put a comma at _report_ and inverted commas before _Bring_, forgetting, however, to mark the end of the quotation. Hanmer printed the line _Bring ... war_ in italics, and Johnson put the whole passage _Bring ... giant_ in inverted commas. Subsequent editors have followed him in marking the quotation thus. We have done the like, though with some doubt as to whether Hanmer's view be not preferable.

NOTE VII.

II. 3. 187, sqq. Rowe, in this passage, followed the Folios. Pope, too, left the preposterously long line '(As amply titled, as Achilles is,) by going to Achilles:' but in the following, altered 'fat already, pride' to 'pride, already fat.' Theobald followed Pope.

Hanmer reads:

'As amply titled as Achilles' is,
By going to Achilles: for that were
But to inlard his pride, already fat.'

Johnson first adopted the reading and arrangement given in the text, followed by Capell, except that the latter gave, like Hanmer, _Achilles'_ (with an apostrophe) in the first line.

NOTE VIII.

III. 2. 21. Capell's copy of the Quarto has distinctly 'repured,' though Capell, usually so accurate in his collation, omitted to notice that it differed from the Folio. The same is the reading of the copy in the Duke of Devonshire's Library, and of two copies in the British Museum, one of which formerly belonged to Steevens.

Steevens's reprint has 'reputed'--an error which seems to have been the source of the statement that some copies of the Quarto have that reading.

NOTE IX.

III. 3. 120. In Capell's copy of the Quarto there are traces of what appeared to us at first to be an imperfect letter at the end of the word 'reuerb'rate.' On referring, however, to the Duke of Devonshire's copy, and to the two in the British Museum, we are inclined to believe that the apparently imperfect letter is in reality a lead.

NOTE X.

III. 3. 123-128. The Quarto has,

'I was much rap't in this,
And apprehended here immediately,
Th' vnknowne _Aiax_, heauens what a man is there?
A very horse, that has he knowes not what
Nature what things there are.
Most obiect in regard, and deere in vse,' &c.

The first Folio gives,

'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately:
The vnknowne _Aiax_;
Heauens what a man is there? a very Horse,
That has he knowes not what. Nature, what things there are.
Most abiect in regard, and deare in vse.'

The later Folios omitted the stop between 'what' and 'Nature,' which misled Rowe, who in his first edition read:

'That as he knows not Nature, what things are' &c.

Pope read,

'I was much rapt in this,
And apprehended here immediately
The unknown _Ajax_----
Heav'ns! what a man is there? a very horse,
He knows not his own nature: what things are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use?'

Hanmer reconstructed the whole passage, thus:

'I was much rapt
In this I read, and apprehended here
Immediately the unknown _Ajax_: heavens!
What a man's there? a very horse, that has
He knows not what: in nature what things there are
Most abject in regard, and dear in use.'

NOTE XI.

IV. 4. 74-77. The Quarto here reads:

'Here why I speake it loue,
The Grecian youths are full of quality,
And swelling ore with arts and exercise:'

The first Folio has:

'Heare why I speake it; Loue:
The Grecian youths are full of qualitie,
Their louing well compos'd, with guift of nature,
Flawing and swelling ore with Arts and exercise:'

The second Folio has the same except that it substitutes 'Flowing' for 'Flawing.' The third and fourth have substantially the same reading as the second.

Rowe edited it thus:

'Hear while I speak it, Love:
The _Grecian_ Youths are full of subtle Qualities,
They're loving, well compos'd, with gift of Nature,
Flowing and swelling o'er with Arts and Exercise;'

Pope followed Rowe, with a difference of punctuation:

'... with gift of Nature
Flowing,' &c.

Theobald followed Pope, except that he restored 'why' for 'while' in the first line, and Warburton Theobald, reading 'gifts' for 'gift.'

Johnson followed Warburton, except that in place of 'qualities' he restored 'quality.'

Hanmer has:

'Hear why I speak it, love: the _Grecian_ youths
Are full of subtle qualities, they're loving,
They're well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise.'

Capell thus:

'Hear why I speak it, love: The Grecian youths
Are well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise:'

Malone reads:

'Hear why I speak it, love;
The Grecian youths are full of quality;
They're loving, well compos'd, with gifts of nature flowing,
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise;'

Mr Knight and Mr Collier give the reading of the second and following Folios, only striking out the comma after 'compos'd.'

Mr Grant White:

'They're loving, well compos'd with gifts of nature,
Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise.'

The reading which we have adopted in the text is that of Mr Staunton. The word 'Flowing' was in all probability a marginal correction for 'swelling,' which the printer of the Folio by mistake added to the line.

NOTE XII.

IV. 5. 96. The Quarto reads:

'_Vlis._ The yongest sonne of _Priam_, a true knight.'

The first Folio has:

'_Vlis._ The youngest Sonne of _Priam_;
A true Knight; they call him _Troylus_.'

The second Folio amended the metre of the second line by reading,

'And a true Knight; they call him Troylus;'

which was followed in the later Folios and Rowe. Pope restored the reading of the Quarto, which is probably the true one, as the words 'they call him Troilus' occur lower down in the speech, at line 108. If they are retained at all, we should read,

'_Ulys._ They call him Troilus:
The youngest son of Priam, a true knight;'

but most likely they are the insertion of a hasty corrector.

NOTE XIII.

IV. 5. 103. Although we have not been able to find any other instance of 'impair' as an adjective, we have retained it; for editors should be careful not to obliterate ἅπαξ λεγόμενα, and etymologically 'impair' may have the sense of 'unsuitable, unequal to the theme.' Johnson's conjecture of 'impure,' though plausible, is not entirely satisfactory, as it is Troilus's ripeness of judgement and not his modesty which is the subject of praise.

NOTE XIV.

V. 2. 12. The short speeches throughout this scene are printed as verse first by Steevens (1793). This arrangement has been generally adopted by later editors. From the manner in which the short lines are arranged in the earlier editions it is impossible to say whether they were intended to be read as verse or not. An alteration made by Pope in line 40 for the sake of the metre shows that he read some of the lines at least as verse.

NOTE XV.

V. 3. III. The Folio here inserts the following lines:

'_Pand._ Why, but heare you?

_Troy._ Hence brother lackie; ignomie and shame
Pursue thy life, and liue aye with thy name.'

As they occur again, with a slight variation in the first line, in the last scene, we have followed the Quarto in omitting them. This is an indication that the play has been tampered with by another hand than Shakespeare's.

NOTE XVI.

V. 7. 6. Mr Collier quotes the Duke of Devonshire's copy of the Quarto as authority for the reading 'aims,' 'the letter i being a little indistinct.' This is a mistake. The indistinct letter is, beyond all question, an imperfect r. Capell's copy and the two copies in the British Museum all have 'armes.' In the same note Mr Collier quotes the Folio as reading 'arm,' not 'arme,' and attributes Capell's correction to Steevens.

NOTE XVII.

V. 10. 31. Here Capell inserts the passage '_Pan._ Do you hear ... deeds,' V. 3. 97-111, and after Troilus's speech, 'What now?' gives the stage direction 'Exeunt Æneas, and Trojans.'

CORIOLANUS.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[F].

CAIUS MARCIUS, afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS.
TITUS LARTIUS, } generals against the Volscians.
COMINIUS, }
MENENIUS AGRIPPA, friend to Coriolanus.
SICINIUS VELUTUS, } tribunes of the people.
JUNIUS BRUTUS, }
YOUNG MARCIUS, son to Coriolanus.
A Roman Herald.
TULLUS AUFIDIUS, general of the Volscians.
Lieutenant to Aufidius.
Conspirators with Aufidius.
A Citizen of Antium.
Two Volscian Guards.

VOLUMNIA, mother to Coriolanus.
VIRGILIA, wife to Coriolanus.
VALERIA, friend to Virgilia.
Gentlewoman attending on Virgilia.

Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians, Ædiles, Lictors, Soldiers,
Citizens, Messengers, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.

SCENE: _Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli and the neighbourhood;
Antium_[G].

[F] First given imperfectly by Rowe.

[G] Rome....] Edd. The Scene is partly in Rome and partly in the Territory of the Volscians. Rowe. The Scene.... Territories of the Volscians and Antiates. Theobald.

THE TRAGEDY OF

CORIOLANUS.