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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
[I, 1]

Aeneas

136

How now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?

2

Troilus and Cressida
[I, 2]

Pandarus

376

Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus!
there's a man, niece! Hem! Brave Troilus! the
prince of chivalry!

3

Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3]

Agamemnon

523

Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect
That matter needless, of importless burden,
Divide thy lips, than we are confident,
When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,
We shall hear music, wit and oracle.

4

Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3]

Aeneas

673

May one, that is a herald and a prince,
Do a fair message to his kingly ears?

5

Troilus and Cressida
[I, 3]

Aeneas

716

Trumpet, blow loud,
Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;
And every Greek of mettle, let him know,
What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud.
[Trumpet sounds]
We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy
A prince call'd Hector,—Priam is his father,—
Who in this dull and long-continued truce
Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet,
And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords!
If there be one among the fair'st of Greece
That holds his honour higher than his ease,
That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril,
That knows his valour, and knows not his fear,
That loves his mistress more than in confession,
With truant vows to her own lips he loves,
And dare avow her beauty and her worth
In other arms than hers,—to him this challenge.
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,
He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,
Than ever Greek did compass in his arms,
And will to-morrow with his trumpet call
Midway between your tents and walls of Troy,
To rouse a Grecian that is true in love:
If any come, Hector shall honour him;
If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires,
The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth
The splinter of a lance. Even so much.

6

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 1]

Pandarus

1529

It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the
Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the
Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault
upon him, for my business seethes.

7

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 1]

Pandarus

1540

You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair
prince, here is good broken music.

8

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 2]

Cressida

1763

Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day
For many weary months.

9

Troilus and Cressida
[III, 3]

Calchas

1883

You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore—
Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,
Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,
I know, is such a wrest in their affairs
That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,
In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,
And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
Shall quite strike off all service I have done,
In most accepted pain.

10

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 1]

Aeneas

2201

Is the prince there in person?
Had I so good occasion to lie long
As you, prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business
Should rob my bed-mate of my company.

11

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 2]

Aeneas

2343

Is not Prince Troilus here?

12

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 2]

Pandarus

2373

Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil
take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a
plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!

13

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4]

Diomedes

2555

Fair Lady Cressid,
So please you, save the thanks this prince expects:
The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,
Pleads your fair usage; and to Diomed
You shall be mistress, and command him wholly.

14

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4]

Diomedes

2569

O, be not moved, Prince Troilus:
Let me be privileged by my place and message,
To be a speaker free; when I am hence
I'll answer to my lust: and know you, lord,
I'll nothing do on charge: to her own worth
She shall be prized; but that you say 'be't so,'
I'll speak it in my spirit and honour, 'no.'

15

Troilus and Cressida
[IV, 4]

Aeneas

2583

How have we spent this morning!
The prince must think me tardy and remiss,
That sore to ride before him to the field.

16

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 1]

Agamemnon

3009

So now, fair prince of Troy, I bid good night.
Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.

17

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2]

Ulysses

3086

You are moved, prince; let us depart, I pray you,
Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself
To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous;
The time right deadly; I beseech you, go.

18

Troilus and Cressida
[V, 2]

Ulysses

3208

What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?

19

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!