Act 1 - Scene 2
The Same. A street.
Enter CRESSIDA and ALEXANDER CRESSIDA
Who were those went by? ALEXANDER
Queen Hecuba and Helen. CRESSIDA
And whither go they? ALEXANDER
Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To see the battle. Hector, whose
patience Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was moved: He chid Andromache and struck his armourer, And, like
as there were husbandry in war, Before the sun rose he was harness'd light, And to the field goes he; where
every flower Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw In Hector's wrath. CRESSIDA
What was his cause of anger? ALEXANDER
The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; They call him
Ajax. CRESSIDA
Good; and what of him? ALEXANDER
They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. CRESSIDA
So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs. ALEXANDER
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion, churlish
as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is
crushed into folly, his folly sauced with discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse
of, nor any man an attaint but he carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without cause, and merry against
the hair: he hath the joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint that he is a gouty Briareus, many
hands and no use, or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight. CRESSIDA
But how should this man, that makes me smile, make Hector angry?
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