LUCIUS.
Set him breast-deep in earth and famish him;
There let him stand and rave and cry for food.
If anyone relieves or pities him,
For the offence he dies. This is our doom.
Some stay to see him fastened in the earth.

AARON.
Ah, why should wrath be mute and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done.
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will.
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.

LUCIUS.
Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,
And give him burial in his father’s grave.
My father and Lavinia shall forthwith
Be closed in our household’s monument.
As for that ravenous tiger, Tamora,
No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weed,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey.
Her life was beastly and devoid of pity;
And being dead, let birds on her take pity.

[Exeunt.]

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Contents

ACT I
[Prologue.]
[Scene I. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.]
[Scene II. Troy. A street.]
[Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent.]
ACT II
[Scene I. The Grecian camp.]
[Scene II. Troy. Priam’s palace.]
[Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.]
ACT III
[Scene I. Troy. Priam’s palace.]
[Scene II. Troy. Pandarus’ orchard.]
[Scene III. The Greek camp.]
ACT IV
[Scene I. Troy. A street.]
[Scene II. Troy. The court of Pandarus’ house.]
[Scene III. Troy. A street before Pandarus’ house.]
[Scene IV. Troy. Pandarus’ house.]
[Scene V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.]
ACT V
[Scene I. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.]
[Scene II. The Grecian camp. Before Calchas’ tent.]
[Scene III. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.]
[Scene IV. The plain between Troy and the Grecian camp.]
[Scene V. Another part of the plain.]
[Scene VI. Another part of the plain.]
[Scene VII. Another part of the plain.]
[Scene VIII. Another part of the plain.]
[Scene IX. Another part of the plain.]
[Scene X. Another part of the plain.]

Dramatis Personæ

PRIAM, King of Troy