As true as steel, as Turtle to her Mate, As Iron to
Adamant, as Earth to th’Center: And after all
comparisons of Truth, wn poëts Rhimes full of ptest & oth WantSsimiles (Truth tir’d with Iteration) As ture as Troilus shall crown up ye Verse)
& sanctify ye numbers.
By Troilus,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN1810-1816),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 78
-a falshearted rogue. I’ll no more trust him, when
he leers, yn I will a serpt wn he hisses. will spend his
mouth in promises but when he pforms, Astronomers
say it, tis pdigious. there will come some change. The
Sun borrows of ye moon, wn N. 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 the soules ioy lies in doinge
That she belovde knows nought, yt knows not this
Men prize the thinge ungayned more then it is
that she was nevre yit, that ever knew
Love goe so sweet, as when desire did sue
Therefore this maxime out of love I teach
Atchievment, is command: vngayned beseech
That though my harts contents firm love doth bear
Nothinge from of that shal from my 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 -- Shakespear
And not a man for being simple Man Hath any Honour; but honour’d by those Honours That are without him: as place riches favour Prizes of Accident as oft as Merit when they fall (as being slippery standers) The love that lean'd on them as slippery too Doth one pluck down another and together Die in ye fall.
By Achilles,
in Troilus and Cressida (TLN1932-1939),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 7v