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Between Troy and the Grecian Camp.
Alarum. Enter THERSITES. Excursion.
Thersites Now they are clapper-clawing one another, I'll go look on.
That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that
same scurvy, doting, foolish young knave's sleeve of Troy
there in his helm. I would fain see them meet, that that
same young Trojan ass that loves the whore there might send
that Greekish whoremasterly villain with the sleeve back to
the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand. O'th'
other side, the policy of those crafty swearing rascals -
that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, and that same
dog-fox, Ulysses - is not proved worth a blackberry. They
set me up in policy that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog
of as bad a kind, Achilles; and now is the cur Ajax prouder
than the cur Achilles, and will not arm today; whereupon the
Grecians begin to proclaim barbarism, and policy grows into
an ill opinion.
Enter DIOMEDES and TROILUS.
Soft, here comes sleeve, and th'other.
Troilus Fly not, for shouldst thou take the river Styx
I would swim after.
Diomedes Thou dost miscall retire:
I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.
Have at thee!
Thersites Hold thy whore, Grecian! Now for thy whore, Trojan! Now the
sleeve, now the sleeve!
[Exeunt DIOMEDES and TROILUS, fighting.
Enter HECTOR.
Hector What art thou, Greek? Art thou for Hector's match?
Art thou of blood and honour?
Thersites No, no, I am a rascal, a scurvy railing knave, a very filthy
rogue.
Hector I do believe thee. Live.
[Exit.
Thersites God-a-mercy that thou wilt believe me, but a plague break
thy neck for frighting me! What's become of the wenching
rogues? I think they have swallowed one another. I would
laugh at that miracle; yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.
I'll seek them.
[Exit.