Act 1 - Scene 1
Troy. Before Priam's palace.
Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS TROILUS
Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find such cruel battle
here within? Each Trojan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none. PANDARUS
Will this gear ne'er be mended? TROILUS
The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength, Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant; But I
am weaker than a woman's tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in
the night And skilless as unpractised infancy. PANDARUS
Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will have a
cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. TROILUS
Have I not tarried? PANDARUS
Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. TROILUS
Have I not tarried? PANDARUS
Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening. TROILUS
Still have I tarried. PANDARUS
Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating
of the oven and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips. TROILUS
Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do. At Priam's royal
table do I sit; And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts, So, traitor! 'When she comes!' When is she
thence?
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