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Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE IX. Changes to the Field between Troy and the Camp. [Alarm] Enter Thersites.

Ther.

Now they are clapper-clawing one another, I'll go look on. That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomede, has got that same scurvy, doating, foolish young knave's sleeve of Troy, there, in his helm; I would fain see them meet; that, that

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same young Trojan ass, that loves the whore there, might send that Greekish whore-masterly villain with the sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab, on a sleeveless errand. 5 noteO'th' other side, the policy of those crafty swearing rascals, that the stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese Nestor, and that same dog-fox Ulysses, is not prov'd worth a black-berry—They set me up in policy that mungril cur Ajax, against that dog of as bad a kind, Achilles. And now is the cur Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm to-day: whereupon the Grecians begin 6 noteto proclaim barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.

Enter Diomedes and Troilus.
Soft—here comes sleeve, and t'other.

Troi.
Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx,
I would swim after.

Dio.
Thou dost miscall Retire.
I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.
Have at thee!
[They go off, fighting.

Ther.

Hold thy whore, Grecian. Now for thy whore, Trojan. Now the sleeve, now the sleeve!

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Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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