Troilus and Cressida
Act V, Scene 7
Another part of the plains.
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Enter Achilles with Myrmidons.
Achilles
1 - 8
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Come here about me, you my Myrmidons,
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Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel;
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Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath,
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And when I have the bloody Hector found,
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Empale him with your weapons round about,
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In fellest manner execute your arms.
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Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye,
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It is decreed Hector the great must die.
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Enter Thersites; Menelaus and Paris fighting.
Thersites
9 - 11
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The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now, bull! Now,
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dog! ’Loo, Paris, ’loo! Now my double-henn’d Spartan! ’Loo,
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Paris, ’loo! The bull has the game, ware horns ho!
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Exeunt Paris and Menelaus.
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Enter Bastard Margarelon.
Margarelon
12
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Turn, slave, and fight.
Thersites
13
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What art thou?
Margarelon
14
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A bastard son of Priam’s.
Thersites
15 - 20
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I am a bastard too, I love bastards. I am bastard begot,
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bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in
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every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite another,
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and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed, the quarrel’s
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most ominous to us. If the son of a whore fight for a whore,
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he tempts judgment. Farewell, bastard.
Margarelon
21
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The devil take thee, coward!
