The History of Troilus and Cressida: ACT V
Introduction PROLOGUE ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent. SCENE II. The same. Before Calchas' tent. SCENE III. Troy. Before Priam's palace. SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp. SCENE V. Another part of the plains. SCENE VI. Another part of the plains. SCENE VII. Another part of the plains. SCENE VIII. Another part of the plains. SCENE IX. Another part of the plains. SCENE X. Another part of the plains. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE V. Another part of the plains. Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant DIOMEDES       Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;       Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:       Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;       Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan, 5     And am her knight by proof. Servant       I go, my lord. Exit Enter AGAMEMNON AGAMEMNON       Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas       Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon       Hath Doreus prisoner, 10    And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,       Upon the pashed corses of the kings       Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,       Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,       Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes 15    Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary       Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,       To reinforcement, or we perish all. Enter NESTOR NESTOR       Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;       And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. 20    There is a thousand Hectors in the field:       Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,       And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,       And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls       Before the belching whale; then is he yonder, 25    And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,       Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:       Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,       Dexterity so obeying appetite       That what he will he does, and does so much 30    That proof is call'd impossibility. Enter ULYSSES ULYSSES       O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles       Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:       Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,       Together with his mangled Myrmidons, 35    That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,       Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend       And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,       Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day       Mad and fantastic execution, 40    Engaging and redeeming of himself       With such a careless force and forceless care       As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,       Bade him win all. Enter AJAX AJAX       Troilus! thou coward Troilus! Exit DIOMEDES 45    Ay, there, there. NESTOR       So, so, we draw together. Enter ACHILLES ACHILLES       Where is this Hector?       Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;       Know what it is to meet Achilles angry: 50    Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene