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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

1290

[Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and AJAX]

2

Troilus and Cressida
[II, 3]

Nestor

1422

[Aside to DIOMEDES] O, this is well; he rubs the
vein of him.

3

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

1864

[Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,]
MENELAUS, and CALCHAS]

4

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Agamemnon

1896

Let Diomedes bear him,
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 to-morrow
Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready.

5

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

1904

[Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS]

6

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

2196

[Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a]
torch; from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,
DIOMEDES, and others, with torches]

7

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 3]

(stage directions)

2409

[Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,]
and DIOMEDES]

8

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4]

Troilus

2538

Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault:
Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,
I with great truth catch mere simplicity;
Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit
Is 'plain and true;' there's all the reach of it.
[Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, DEIPHOBUS,]
and DIOMEDES]
Welcome, Sir Diomed! here is the lady
Which for Antenor we deliver you:
At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand,
And by the way possess thee what she is.
Entreat her fair; and, by my soul, fair Greek,
If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword,
Name Cressida and thy life shall be as safe
As Priam is in Ilion.

9

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4]

(stage directions)

2580

[Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES]

10

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5]

(stage directions)

2614

[Enter DIOMEDES, with CRESSIDA]

11

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5]

(stage directions)

2701

[Re-enter DIOMEDES]

12

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1]

Thersites

2979

With too much blood and too little brain, these two
may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too
little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen.
Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one
that loves quails; but he has not so much brain as
earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter
there, his brother, the bull,—the primitive statue,
and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's
leg,—to what form but that he is, should wit larded
with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?
To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to
an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a
dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an
owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would
not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire
against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I
were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse
of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!
spirits and fires!
[Enter HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES,]
NESTOR, MENELAUS, and DIOMEDES, with lights]

13

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

3030

[Exit DIOMEDES; ULYSSES and TROILUS following]

14

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2]

(stage directions)

3045

[Enter DIOMEDES]

15

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2]

Cressida

3174

Good night: I prithee, come.
[Exit DIOMEDES]
Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee
But with my heart the other eye doth see.
Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err; O, then conclude
Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude.

16

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 4]

(stage directions)

3428

[Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following]

17

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 4]

(stage directions)

3437

[Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting]

18

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 5]

(stage directions)

3452

[Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant]

19

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 6]

(stage directions)

3513

[Enter DIOMEDES]

20

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 9]

(stage directions)

3617

[Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES,]
and others, marching. Shouts within]