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From certain and possessed conveniences,
To doubtful fortunes; sequest’ring from me all
That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition
Made tame and most familiar to my nature; [10]

And here, to do you service, am become
As new into the world, strange, unacquainted.
I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
To give me now a little benefit,

Out of those many registered in promise, [15]
Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.

AGAMEMNON
What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? Make demand.

CALCHAS
You have a Trojan prisoner, called Antenor,
Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear.

Oft have you − often have you thanks therefore − [20]
Desired my Cressid in ritht great exchange,
Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor,
I know, is such a wrest in their affairs

That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost [25]
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,
In change of him. Let him be sent, great princes,

And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
Shall quite strike off all service I have done
In most accepted pain.

AGAMEMNON
Let Diomedes bear him, [30]

And bring us Cressid hither; Calchas shall have
What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
Furnish you fairly for this interchange;
Withal, bring word if Hector will tomorrow
Be answered in his challenge. Ajax is ready. [35]

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