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Upon the love you bear me, get you in.

[Exit Andromache. Troi. This foolish, dreaming, fuperftitious girl

Makes all thefe bodements.

Caf. O farewel, dear Hector,

Look, how thou dy'ft; look, how thy eyes turn pale!

Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!
Hark, how Troy roars; how Hecuba cries out;
How poor Andromache fhrills her dolour forth!
Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,
Like witlefs anticks, one another meet,

And all cry, Hector, Hector's dead! O Helor!
Troi. Away!-Away!

Caf. Farewel. Yes. Soft. Hector, I take my leave; Thou do'ft thyself and all our Troy deceive.

[Exit. Helt. You are amaz'd, my liege, at her exclaim. Go in and cheer the town; we'll forth and fight, Do deeds worth praife, and tell you them at night. Priam. Farewel. The Gods with fafety ftand about thee. [Alarm. Troi. They're at it; hark. Proud Diomede, believe

I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.

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Pan. Do you hear, my Lord? do you hear?

Troi. What now?

Pan. Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.
Troi.

Let me read.

Pan. A whorefon ptifick, a whorefon rascally ptifick fo troubles me; and the foolish fortune of this girl, and what one thing and what another, that I fhall leave you one o' these days; and I have a rheum in mine

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eyes too, and fuch an ach in my bones that unless a man were curft, I cannot tell what to think on't. What fays fhe, there?

Troi. Words, words, mere words; no matter from

the heart.

Th' effect doth operate another way.

[Tearing the letter. Go, wind to wind; there turn and change together. My love with words and errors still she feeds;

But edifies another with her deeds.

Pan. Why, but hear you

Troi.

Hence, broker lacquey! ignominy and fhame

Pursue thy life, and live ay with thy name! [Exeunt.

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Changes to the Field between Troy and the Camp.

[Alarm.] Enter Therfites.

Ther.N.I'll go look on. That diffembling aboNOW

OW they are clapper-clawing one another,

minable varlet, Diomede, has got that fame fcurvy, doating, foolish young knave's fleeve of Troy, there, in his helm; I would fain fee them meet; that, that

4 Hence, brothel, lacquey!--]phen betwixt the two words. In this, and the repetition of it, THEOBALD. towards the clofe of the play, I have retained the note, but Troilus is made abfurdly to call believe the emendation wholly Pandarusbawdy-house; for unneceffary. For brothel, the fobrothel fignifies nothing elfe that lio reads brother, erroneously for I know of; but he meant to call broker, as it stands at the end of him an attendant on a bawdy- the play where the lines are rehoufe, a meffenger of obfcene er peated. Of bother the followrands a fenfe which I have reing editors made brothel. triev'd only by clapping an by

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fame young Trojan ass, that loves the whore there, might fend that Greekish whore-masterly villain with the fleeve, back to the diffembling luxurious drab, on a fleeveless errand. 50 th' other fide, the policy of those crafty fwearing rafcals, that ftale old moufe-eaten dry cheefe Neftor, and that fame dog-fox Ulyffes, is not prov'd worth a black-berry. -They fet me up in policy that mungril 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 barbarifm, and policy grows into an ill opinion.

Enter Diomedes and Troilus.

Softhere comes fleeve, and t'other.

Troi. Fly not; for fhouldft thou take the river
Styx,

I would fwim after.

Dio. Thou doft mifcall Retire.

I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.

Have at thee!

[They go off, fighting. Ther. Hold thy whore, Grecian. Now for thy whore, Trojan. Now the fleeve, now the fleeve!

fir'd Achilles's emulation. In this, they were the true fneerers; betraying the firft, to gain their ends on the latter by that artifice. THEOBALD.

5 O'th other fide, the policy of thofe crafty fwearing rafcals, &c.] But in what fenfe are Neftor and Ulyffes accus'd of being wearing rafcals? What, or to whom, did they fwear? I am pofitive, that to proclaim barbarifm.] To fneering is the true reading... fet up the authority of ignorance to declare that they will be governed by policy no longer.

They had collogued with Ajax,
and trim'd him up with infincere
praises, only in order to have

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Het. What art thou, Greek! art thou for Hector's match?

'Art thou of blood and honour?

Ther. No, no. I am a rafcal; a fcurvy railing knave; a very filthy rogue,

Live,

Hect. I do believe thee. [Exit. Ther. God a' mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a plague break thy neck for frightning me! What's become of the wenching rogues? I think they have fwallowed one another. I would laugh at that miracle. Yet, in a fort, letchery eats itfelf. I'll feek them. [Exit

Enter Diomedes and Servant.

Dio. Go, go, my fervant, take thou Troilus' horfe, Prefent the fair Steed to my lady Crefid:

Fellow, commend my service to her beauty:
Tell her, I have chaftis'd the amorous Trojan,
And am her knight by proof.

Serv. I go, my Lord.

SCENE XI.

Enter Agamemnon.

Aga. Renew, renew. The fierce Polydamas Hath beat down Menon; 7 bastard Margarelon

7baftard Margarelon] The introducing a baftard fon of Priam, under the name of Margarelon, is one of the circumftan

ces taken from the story book of The three deftructions of Troy.

THEOBALD.

Hath

Hath Doreus prisoner,

And ftands Coloffus wife, waving his beam
Upon the pashed coarfes of the Kings,
Epistropus and Odius. Polyxenus is flain;
Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt;
Patroclus ta'en or flain, and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruis'd; the dreadful Sagittary
Appals our numbers." Hafte we, Diomede,
To reinforcement, or we perifh all.

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Enter Neftor.

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Neft. Go, bear Patroclus body to Achilles,
And bid the fnail-pac'd Ajax arm for fhame,
There are a thousand Hectors in the field:
Now, here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work; anon, he's there a-foot,
And there they fly or die, like fcaled fhoals
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the ftrawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,
Fall down before him, like the mower's fwath;
Here, there, and ev'ry where, he leaves and takes ;
Dexterity fo obeying appetite

That what he will, he does; and does fo much,
That proof is call'd impoffibility.

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Mr. THEOBALD. 9 on Galathe his bore,] From the fame book is taken this name given to Hector's horfe.

Mr. THEOBALD. -the frawy Greeks,-] In the folio it is,

-the fraying Greeks.

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