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HELEN. My Lord Pandarus! |
PANDARUS. What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen? |
PARIS. What exploit's in hand? Where sups he to-night? |
HELEN. Nay, but, my lord- |
PANDARUS. What says my sweet queen?-My cousin will fall out with |
you. |
HELEN. You must not know where he sups. |
PARIS. I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida. |
PANDARUS. No, no, no such matter; you are wide. Come, your disposer |
is sick. |
PARIS. Well, I'll make's excuse. |
PANDARUS. Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? |
No, your poor disposer's sick. |
PARIS. I spy. |
PANDARUS. You spy! What do you spy?-Come, give me an instrument. |
Now, sweet queen. |
HELEN. Why, this is kindly done. |
PANDARUS. My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have, sweet |
queen. |
HELEN. She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my Lord Paris. |
PANDARUS. He! No, she'll none of him; they two are twain. |
HELEN. Falling in, after falling out, may make them three. |
PANDARUS. Come, come. I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing you a |
song now. |
HELEN. Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou hast a |
fine forehead. |
PANDARUS. Ay, you may, you may. |
HELEN. Let thy song be love. This love will undo us all. O Cupid, |
Cupid, Cupid! |
PANDARUS. Love! Ay, that it shall, i' faith. |
PARIS. Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love. |
PANDARUS. In good troth, it begins so. [Sings] |
Love, love, nothing but love, still love, still more! |
For, oh, love's bow |
Shoots buck and doe; |
The shaft confounds |
Not that it wounds, |
But tickles still the sore. |
These lovers cry, O ho, they die! |
Yet that which seems the wound to kill |
Doth turn O ho! to ha! ha! he! |
So dying love lives still. |
O ho! a while, but ha! ha! ha! |
O ho! groans out for ha! ha! ha!-hey ho! |
HELEN. In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose. |
PARIS. He eats nothing but doves, love; and that breeds hot blood, |
and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot |
deeds, and hot deeds is love. |
PANDARUS. Is this the generation of love: hot blood, hot thoughts, |
and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of |
vipers? Sweet lord, who's a-field today? |
PARIS. Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry |
of Troy. I would fain have arm'd to-day, but my Nell would not |
have it so. How chance my brother Troilus went not? |
HELEN. He hangs the lip at something. You know all, Lord Pandarus. |
PANDARUS. Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they spend |
to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse? |
PARIS. To a hair. |
PANDARUS. Farewell, sweet queen. |
HELEN. Commend me to your niece. |
PANDARUS. I will, sweet queen. Exit. Sound a retreat |
PARIS. They're come from the field. Let us to Priam's hall |
To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you |
To help unarm our Hector. His stubborn buckles, |
With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd, |
Shall more obey than to the edge of steel |
Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more |
Than all the island kings-disarm great Hector. |
HELEN. 'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris; |
Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty |
Gives us more palm in beauty than we have, |
Yea, overshines ourself. |
PARIS. Sweet, above thought I love thee. Exeunt |
ACT III. SCENE 2. |
Troy. PANDARUS' orchard |
Enter PANDARUS and TROILUS' BOY, meeting |
PANDARUS. How now! Where's thy master? At my cousin Cressida's? |
BOY. No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither. |
Enter TROILUS |
PANDARUS. O, here he comes. How now, how now! |
TROILUS. Sirrah, walk off. Exit Boy |
PANDARUS. Have you seen my cousin? |
TROILUS. No, Pandarus. I stalk about her door |
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks |
Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon, |
And give me swift transportance to these fields |
Where I may wallow in the lily beds |
Propos'd for the deserver! O gentle Pandar, |
From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings, |
And fly with me to Cressid! |
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