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I must, then, to the Grecians?

TROILUS
No remedy.

CRESSIDA
A woeful Cressid ’mongst the merry Greeks! [55]
When shall we see again?

TROILUS
Hear me, my love: be thou but true of heart −

CRESSIDA
I true? How now, what wicked deem is this?

TROILUS
Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,

For it is parting from us. [60]
I speak not ‘be thou true’ as fearing thee;
For I will throw my glove to Death himself

That there’s no maculation in thy heart.
But ‘be thou true’, say I, to fashion in
My sequent protestation: be thou true, [65]
And I will see thee.

CRESSIDA
O, you shall be exposed, my lord, to dangers

As infinite as imminent; but I’ll be true!

TROILUS
And I’ll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.

CRESSIDA
And you this glove. When shall I see you? [70]

TROILUS
I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels,