Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
Act 5 - Scene 7
Another part of the plains.
Achilles : Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
[p]Mark what I say. Attend me
where I wheel:
[p]Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in
breath:
[p]And when I have the bloody Hector found,
[p]Empale him with
your weapons round about;
[p]In fellest manner execute your
aims.
[p]Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
[p]It is decreed
Hector the great must die.
[p][Exeunt]
[p][Enter MENELAUS and PARIS,
fighting:]
[p]then THERSITES]
Thersites : The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,
[p]bull! now, dog!
'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-
[p]henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris,
'loo! The bull has the
[p]game: ware horns, ho!
Margarelon : Turn, slave, and fight.
Thersites : What art thou?
Margarelon : A bastard son of Priam's.
Thersites : I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard
[p]begot, bastard
instructed, bastard in mind, bastard
[p]in valour, in every thing
illegitimate. One bear will
[p]not bite another, and wherefore should
one bastard?
[p]Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if
the
[p]son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts
judgment:
[p]farewell, bastard.
Margarelon : The devil take thee, coward!
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