Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Now Expectaton tickling skittish spirits,
On one and other side, Troian and Greeke,
Sets all on hazard. And hither am I come,
A Prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited
In like conditions, as our Argument;
To tell you (faire Beholders) that our Play
Leapes ore the vaunt and firstlings of those broyles,
Beginning in the middle. Starting thence away,
To What may be digested in a Play:
Like or finde fault, do as your pleasures are,
Now good, or bad, 'tis but the chance of Warre.
THE TRAGEDIE OF Troylus and Cressida.
Actus Primus. Scœna Prima.
[Act 1, Scene 1]
Enter Pandarus and Troylus.
Troylus. Troylus.
Troylus. CAll here my Varlet, Ile vnarme againe.
Troylus. Why should I warre without the wals of Troy
Troylus. That finde such cruell battell here within?