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ACHILLES
Will you set your wit to a fool’s? [85]
THERSITES
No, I warrant you, for a fool’s will shame it.
PATROCLUS
Good words, Thersites.
ACHILLES
What’s the quarrel?
AJAX
I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the proclamation, and he rails
upon me. [90]
THERSITES
I serve thee not.
AJAX
Well, go to, go to.
THERSITES
I serve here voluntary.
ACHILLES
Your last service was sufferance, ‘twas not voluntary; no man is beaten
voluntary. Ajax was here the [95] voluntary, and you as under an impress.
THERSITES
E’en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your sinews, or else there be
liars. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains: he
were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. [100]
ACHILLES
What, with me too, Thersites?
