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shall [90] have a praise in present. We will not name desert before his birth,
and, being born, his addition shall be humble: few words to fair faith. Troilus
shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst shall be a mock for his
truth, and what truth can speak truest, not truer [95] than Troilus.

CRESSIDA
Will you walk in, my lord?

Enter Pandarus.

PANDARUS
What, blushing still? Have you not done talking yet?

CRESSIDA
Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to [100] you.

PANDARUS
I thank you for that. If my lord get a boy of you, you’ll give him me. Be true
to my lord; if he flinch, chide me for it.

TROILUS
You know now your hostages; your uncle’s word [105] and my firm faith.

PANDARUS
Nay, I’ll give my word for her too. Our kindred, though they be long ere they

are wooed, they are constant being won; they are burs, I can tell you, they’ll
stick where they are thrown. [110]

CRESSIDA
Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart:
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day

For many weary months.

TROILUS
Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?

CRESSIDA