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ACHILLES
Shall Ajax fight with Hector? [225]
PATROCLUS
Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.
ACHILLES
I see my reputation is at stake.
My fame is shrewdly gored.
PATROCLUS
O, then, beware:
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
Omission to do what is necessary [230]
Seals a commission to a blank of danger,
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when we sit idly in the sun.
ACHILLES
Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus.
I’ll send the fool to Ajax, and desire him [235]
T’invite the Trojan lords the combat
To see us here unarmed. I have a woman’s longing,
An appetite that I am sick withal,
To see great Hector in his weeds of peace,
Enter Thersites.
To talk with him, and to behold his visage [240]
Even to my full of view. − A labour saved!
THERSITES
A wonder!
ACHILLES
What?
THERSITES
