As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, as Turtle to her Mate, As Iron to
Adamant, as Earth to the Center: Yet after all
comparisons of Truth, As true as Troilus shall crown up the Verse)
& sanctify the numbers.
By Troilus,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN1810-1816),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 78
When they've said, as false as air, as water, win, or sandy earth, As Fox to Lambs, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind as Stepdame to her son, 'Yea,' let them say
to stick the Heart of Falshood, As false as Cressid.
By Cressida,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN1825-1830),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 78
We two that with so many thousand sighs Did buy each other,
must poorly sell ourselves. with the rude brevity, & discharge
of one. Injurious Time now with a Robber's haste
Crams his rich thievery up he know not how.
By Troilus,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN2424-2429),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 78
-a falshearted rogue. a most unjust knave I’ll no more trust him, when
he leers, than I will a serpent when he hisses. he will spend his
mouth andpromiselike Brabbler the hound:; but when he pforms, Astronomers foretell, it is prodigious. there will come some change. The
Sun borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his Word
By Thersites,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN2963-2967),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 79
Things won are done joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she belov'd knows naught that knows not this
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is
that she was never yet, that ever knew
Love got so sweet, as when desire did sue
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach
Achievement, is command: ungained beseech
That though my heart's contents firm love doth bear
Nothinge from of that shall from mine eyes appear
By Cressida,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN444-453),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 156v (rev)
Of Honour -- Troylus & ---- p. 16 -- Shakespeare
And not a man for being simple Man Hath any Honour; but honoured by those Honours That are without him: as place riches favour Prizes of Accident as oft as Merit Which when they fall (as being slippery standers) The love that leaned on them as slippery too Doth one pluck down another and together Die in the fall.
By Achilles,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN1932-1939),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 7v