Dramatis Personæ. PRIAM, TROJAN. Hector, TROJAN. Troilus, TROJAN. Paris, TROJAN. Deiphobus, TROJAN. Helenus, TROJAN. Æneas [Aeneas], TROJAN. Pandarus, TROJAN. Antenor, TROJAN. Agamemnon, GREEK. Achilles, GREEK. Ajax, GREEK. Menelaus, GREEK. Ulysses, GREEK. Nestor, GREEK. Diomedes, GREEK. Patroclus, GREEK. Thersites, GREEK. Calchas, GREEK. Helen, Wife to Menelaus, in Love with Paris. Andromache, Wife to Hector. Cressida, Daughter to Calchas, in Love with Troilus. Trojan and Greek Soldiers, with other attendants. [Servant], [Boy], [Cassandra], [Margarelon], [Soldiers] SCENE Troy and the Grecian Camp. ^note

^noteTROILUS and CRESSIDA.

† [Footnote:

THE PROLOGUE.
In Troy, there lyes the scene: from Isles of Greece
The Princes orgillous, their high blood chaf'd,
Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cruel war. Sixty and nine that wore
Their crownets regal, from th' Athenian bay
Put forth toward Phrygia, and their vow is made
To ransack Troy; within whose strong immures,
The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' Queen
With wanton Paris sleeps, and that's the quarrel.
To Tenedos they come—
And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge
Their warlike fraughtage. Now on Dardan plains,
The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch
Their brave pavilions. Priam's six-gated city,
Dardan, and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien,
And Anteroridas, with massy staples
And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
Stir up the sons of Troy.
Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits
On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,
Sets all on hazard. Hither am I come
A Prologue arm'd, but not in confidence
Of Author's pen, or Actor's voice; but suited
In like conditions as our argument;
To tell you, (fair beholders) that our play
Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
Beginning in the middle: starting thence,
To what may be digested in a play.
Like, or find fault, do as your pleasures are,
Now good, or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.

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