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Troilus and Cressida
[I, 1] |
Aeneas |
142 |
Troilus, by Menelaus.
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2 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3] |
(stage directions) |
449 |
[Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES,]
MENELAUS, and others]
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3 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3] |
Agamemnon |
667 |
What trumpet? look, Menelaus.
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4 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3] |
(stage directions) |
1864 |
[Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,]
MENELAUS, and CALCHAS]
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5 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 1] |
Paris |
2254 |
And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,
Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,
Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen best,
Myself or Menelaus?
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6 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
(stage directions) |
2593 |
[Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS,]
MENELAUS, ULYSSES, NESTOR, and others]
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7 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
Aeneas |
2800 |
The noble Menelaus.
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8 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1] |
Thersites |
2979 |
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; but he has not so much brain as
earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter
there, his brother, the bull,—the primitive statue,
and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's
leg,—to what form but that he is, should wit larded
with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?
To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to
an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a
dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an
owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would
not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire
against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I
were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse
of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!
spirits and fires!
[Enter HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES,]
NESTOR, MENELAUS, and DIOMEDES, with lights]
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Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1] |
Hector |
3013 |
Good night, sweet lord Menelaus.
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10 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1] |
(stage directions) |
3019 |
[Exeunt AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS]
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11 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 7] |
Achilles |
3557 |
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;
In fellest manner execute your aims.
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
It is decreed Hector the great must die.
[Exeunt]
[Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting:]
then THERSITES]
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12 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 7] |
(stage directions) |
3572 |
[Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS]
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13 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 9] |
(stage directions) |
3617 |
[Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES,]
and others, marching. Shouts within]
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