Troilus and Cressida (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Enter Cassandra (Scene 2) ACT II Scene I. A Part of the Grecian Camp Enter Ajax and THersites Ajax. Thersites ! Thersites. Agamemnon ? how if he had boils ? full, all over, generally ? Ajax. Thersites l TROILUS ? 5 65 Thersites. And those boils did run ? say so, did not the general run then ? were not that a botchy core ? Ajax. Dog! Thersites. Then would come some matter from him; I see none now. Ajax. Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear ? Bea ting him Feel, then, 11 Thersites. The plague of Greece upon thee, thou -"ongrel beef-witted lord ! -. rff- '.-'., . Ajax. Speak then, thou vinewed'st leaven, speak ! I will beat thee into handsomeness. Thersites. I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; but I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike, canst thou? a redjrnurrain o' thy jade's tricks! 20 Ajax. Toadstool, learn me the proclamation. Thersites. Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus ? Ajax. The proclamation! Thersites. Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think. Ajax. Do not, porpentine, do not! my fingers itch. Thersites. I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of thee; I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another. 31 Ajax. I say, the proclamation ! Thersites. Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles, and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty, ay, that thou barkest at him. Ajax. Mistress Thersites ! Thersites. Thou shouldst strike him., / J. /. /..t''.'" Ajax. cpbio' .r Thersites. He would pun thee into shivers with his fisi, as a sailor breaks a biscuit. 41 ...

General

Imprint:	Modern Library Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern Library Classics
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	September 2010
Authors:	William Shakespeare
Editors:	Jonathan Bate • Eric Rasmussen
Dimensions:	202 x 132 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8129-6931-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts Promotions
LSN:	0-8129-6931-6
Barcode:	9780812969313

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