Troilus and Cressida: Beyond World's Classics

By: Shakespeare, William

TROILUS Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find such cruel battle here within?Each Trojan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas hath none.PANDARUS Will this gear ne'er be mended?TROILUS The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength, Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant;But I am weaker than a woman's tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in the nightAnd skilless as unpractised infancy.PANDARUS Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.TROILUS Have I not tarried?PANDARUS Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.TROILUS Have I not tarried?PANDARUS Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.TROILUS Still have I tarried.PANDARUS Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.TROILUS Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do.At Priam's royal table do I sit;And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts, -So, traitor 'When she comes ' When is she thence?PANDARUS Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw her look, or any woman else.TROILUS I was about to tell thee: -when my heart, As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain, Lest Hector or my father should perceive me, I have, as when the sun doth light a storm, Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile: But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness, Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.PANDARUS An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's- well, go to-there were no more comparison between the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I would not, as they term it, praise her: but I would somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I will not dispraise your sister Cassan

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J5HLXQ6
• ISBN13: 9798684899508
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"