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Troilus and Cressida
[I, 2] |
Cressida |
283 |
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle
head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.
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2 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3] |
Nestor |
638 |
And in the imitation of these twain—
Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
With an imperial voice—many are infect.
Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head
In such a rein, in full as proud a place
As broad Achilles; keeps his tent like him;
Makes factious feasts; rails on our state of war,
Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,
A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,
To match us in comparisons with dirt,
To weaken and discredit our exposure,
How rank soever rounded in with danger.
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3 |
Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3] |
Agamemnon |
675 |
With surety stronger than Achilles' arm
'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice
Call Agamemnon head and general.
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4 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1] |
Thersites |
882 |
I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had
the scratching of thee; I would make thee the
loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in
the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another.
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5 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 1] |
Thersites |
925 |
Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his
evasions have ears thus long. I have bobbed his
brain more than he has beat my bones: I will buy
nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not
worth the nineth part of a sparrow. This lord,
Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and
his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of
him.
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6 |
Troilus and Cressida
[II, 3] |
Ajax |
1303 |
Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it
melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my
head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the
cause. A word, my lord.
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7 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 1] |
Helen |
1560 |
You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do,
our melancholy upon your head!
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8 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 2] |
Troilus |
1741 |
Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we
are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go
bare till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion
shall have a praise in present: we will not name
desert before his birth, and, being born, his addition
shall be humble. Few words to fair faith: Troilus
shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst
shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can
speak truest not truer than Troilus.
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9 |
Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3] |
Thersites |
2135 |
Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,—a stride
and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no
arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning:
bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should
say 'There were wit in this head, an 'twould out;'
and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire
in a flint, which will not show without knocking.
The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his
neck i' the combat, he'll break 't himself in
vain-glory. He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow,
Ajax;' and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think
you of this man that takes me for the general? He's
grown a very land-fish, language-less, a monster.
A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both
sides, like a leather jerkin.
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10 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 2] |
Cressida |
2326 |
Did not I tell you? Would he were knock'd i' the head!
[Knocking within]
Who's that at door? good uncle, go and see.
My lord, come you again into my chamber:
You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.
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11 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4] |
Troilus |
2576 |
Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,
This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.
Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,
To our own selves bend we our needful talk.
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12 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
Agamemnon |
2595 |
Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,
Anticipating time with starting courage.
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,
Thou dreadful Ajax; that the appalled air
May pierce the head of the great combatant
And hale him hither.
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13 |
Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 5] |
Menelaus |
2646 |
You fillip me o' the head.
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14 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2] |
Troilus |
3261 |
Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu.
Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,
Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head!
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15 |
Troilus and Cressida
[V, 6] |
Ajax |
3512 |
Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!
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