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Mars his idiot! Do, rudeness, do, camel; do, do!

Enter Achilles and Patroclus.

ACHILLES
Why, how now, Ajax! Wherefore do you this? How now, Thersites, what’s the
matter, man? [55]

THERSITES
You see him there, do you?

ACHILLES
Ay, what’s the matter?

THERSITES

Nay, look upon him.

ACHILLES

So I do; what’s the matter?

THERSITES
Nay, but regard him well. [60]

ACHILLES
Well, why, I do so.

THERSITES
But yet you look not well upon him; for, whomsoever you take him to be, he
is Ajax.

ACHILLES
I know that, fool.

THERSITES
Ay, but that fool knows not himself. [65]

AJAX