[Exeunt Tro. and Cres.
And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!
[Exit.[1680]
Scene III. The Grecian camp.
Flourish. Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax, Menelaus, and Calchas.[1681]
Cal. Now, princes, for the service I have done you,[1682]
The advantage of the time prompts me aloud
To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind[1683]
That, through the sight I bear in things to love,[1684]
I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,[1685] 5
Incurr'd a traitor's name; exposed myself,
From certain and possess'd conveniences,
To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all[1686]
That time, acquaintance, custom and condition
Made tame and most familiar to my nature, 10
And here, to do you service, am become
As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:[1687]
I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
To give me now a little benefit,
Out of those many register'd in promise, 15
Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.
Agam. What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand.
Cal. You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore— 20
Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,
Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,
I know, is such a wrest in their affairs[1688]
That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost[1689] 25
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,[1690]
In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,
And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
Shall quite strike off all service I have done,
In most accepted pain.
Agam. Let Diomedes bear him,[1691] 30
And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have
What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
Furnish you fairly for this interchange:
Withal, bring word if Hector will to-morrow[1692]
Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready. 35