The History of Troilus and Cressida: ACT V
Introduction PROLOGUE ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent. SCENE II. The same. Before Calchas' tent. SCENE III. Troy. Before Priam's palace. SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp. SCENE V. Another part of the plains. SCENE VI. Another part of the plains. SCENE VII. Another part of the plains. SCENE VIII. Another part of the plains. SCENE IX. Another part of the plains. SCENE X. Another part of the plains. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp. Alarums: excursions. Enter THERSITES THERSITES       Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go       look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,       has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's       sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see 5     them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that       loves the whore there, might send that Greekish       whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the       dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand.       O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty 10    swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry       cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is       not proved worthy 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 15    prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm       to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim       barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.       Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other. Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following TROILUS       Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx, 20    I would swim after. DIOMEDES       Thou dost miscall retire:       I do not fly, but advantageous care       Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:       Have at thee! THERSITES 25    Hold thy whore, Grecian!--now for thy whore,       Trojan!--now the sleeve, now the sleeve! Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting Enter HECTOR HECTOR       What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?       Art thou of blood and honour? THERSITES       No, no, I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave: 30    a very filthy rogue. HECTOR       I do believe thee: live. Exit THERSITES       God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a       plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's       become of the wenching rogues? I think they have 35    swallowed one another: I would laugh at that       miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.       I'll seek them. Exit Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene