Cres. Will you walk in, my lord?
Re-enter Pandarus.[1634]
Pan. What, blushing still? have you not done talking[1635]
yet?
Cres. Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to 95
you.
Pan. I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,
you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he flinch, chide
me for it.
Tro. You know now your hostages; your uncle's word 100
and my firm faith.
Pan. Nay, I 'll give my word for her too: our kindred,
though they be long ere they are wooed, they are constant[1636]
being won: they are burs, I can tell you; they'll stick
where they are thrown. 105
Cres. Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.[1637]
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day[1637]
For many weary months.[1637]
Tro. Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?
Cres. Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord, 110
With the first glance that ever—pardon me;[1638]
If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
I love you now; but not, till now, so much[1639]
But I might master it: in faith, I lie;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown[1640] 115
Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,
When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man, 120
Or that we women had men's privilege[1641]
Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue;
For in this rapture I shall surely speak
The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,[1642]
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws[1643] 125
My very soul of counsel! Stop my mouth.[1644]