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Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
As false as Cressid’.

PANDARUS
Go to, a bargain made; seal it, seal it, I’ll be [195] the witness. Here I hold
your hand, here my cousin’s If ever you prove false one to another, since I
have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be

called to the world’s end after my name; call them all Pandars. Let all
constant men be Troiluses, all [200] false women Cressids, and all brokers-
between Pandars! Say ‘Amen’.

TROILUS
Amen.

CRESSIDA

Amen.

PANDARUS

Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber [205] with a bed; which bed,
because it shall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away!
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Exeunt Troilus and Cressida.

And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Bed, chamber, and Pandar to provide this gear!
Exit.

Scene III IT

Flourish. Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax, Menelaus, and
Calchas.

CALCHAS
Now, princes, for the service I have done you,
Th’advantage of the time prompts me aloud

To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind
That, through the sight I bear in things to come,
I have abandoned Troy, left my possession, [5]

Incurred a traitor’s name, exposed myself,