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PANDARUS
Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? [250] Have you any eyes? Do you
know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,
learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and so forth the spice and salt
that season a man?
CRESSIDA
Ay, a minced man; and then to be baked with [255] no date in the pie, for
then the man’s date is out.
PANDARUS
You are such another woman! One knows not at what ward you lie.
CRESSIDA
Upon my back to defend my belly; upon my wit to defend my wiles; upon my
secrecy to defend mine [260] honesty; my mask to defend my beauty, and
you to defend all these; and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches.
PANDARUS
Say one of your watches.
CRESSIDA
Nay, I’ll watch you for that; and that’s one of [265] the chiefest of them too.
If I cannot ward what I would not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I
took the blow − unless it swell past hiding, and then it’s past watching.
PANDARUS
You are such another! [270]
Enter Troilus’s Boy.
BOY
Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you.
PANDARUS
Where?
