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George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE IX. The field between Troy and the Camp. [Alarum] 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 same young Trojan ass that loves the whore there, might send that Greekish whore-masterly vallain, with the sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errant. O'th' t'other side, the policy of those crafty swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese Nestor, and that same dog-fox Ulysses, is not prov'd worth a blackberry. 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 to proclaim barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.

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

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

Dio.
Thou dost miscall Retire:
I do not fly, but advantagious 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, now the sleeve!

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George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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