Page 2864 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Here, here, here he comes. Ah, sweet ducks!

CRESSIDA
(embracing Troilus) O Troilus! Troilus!

PANDARUS
What a pair of spectacles is here! Let me embrace too. ‘O heart’, as the
goodly saying is −
‘− O heart, heavy heart, [15]

Why sigh’st thou without breaking?’
where he answers again:
‘Because thou canst not ease thy smart
By friendship nor by speaking’.

There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away nothing, [20] for we may
live to have need of such a verse. We see it, we see it. − How now, lambs!

TROILUS
Cressid, I love thee in so strained a purity
That the blest gods, as angry with my fancy,
More bright in zeal than the devotion which [25]

Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.

CRESSIDA
Have the gods envy?

PANDARUS
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ’tis too plain a case.

CRESSIDA
And is it true that I must go from Troy?

TROILUS
A hateful truth.

CRESSIDA
What, and from Troilus too? [30]