Comparison of William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida 1 Prologue to William Shakespeare

Paris is gor’d with Menelaus’ horn. [continues next]

[continues previous] Paris is gor’d with Menelaus’ horn.

This blended knight, half Troyan and half Greek.

Were thy commixtion Greek and Troyan so

And this is Troyan; the sinews of this leg [continues next]

All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother’s blood [continues next]

Ah, sir, there’s many a Greek and Troyan dead

Where art thou now? Come hither; I am here.

Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man’s instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an honest man; and touching the Duke of York, I will take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the King, nor the Queen; and therefore, Peter, have at thee with a downright blow!

It is asham’d to bear me. Friends, come hither:

I am so lated in the world, that I

For I come hither arm’d against myself. [continues next]

[continues previous] All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother’s blood

[continues previous] For I come hither arm’d against myself.

[continues previous] Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say

As our best-moving fair solicitor. [continues next]

[continues previous] Bold of your worthiness, we single you

[continues previous] As our best-moving fair solicitor.

[continues previous] Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,

... but it was never acted, or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleas’d not the million, ’twas caviary to the general, but it was — as I receiv’d it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine — an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember one said there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savory, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affection, but call’d it an honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and ...

But by the chance of war; to prove that true