Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE XIII.
Enter Thersites, Menelaus and Paris.
Ther.
The cuckold, and the cuckold-maker are
at it: now bull, now dog; 'loo, Paris, 'loo; now
my double-hen'd sparrow; 'loo, Paris, 'loo; the bull
has the game: 'ware horns, ho.
[Exeunt Paris and Menelaus.
Enter Bastard.
Bast.
Turn, slave, and fight.
Ther.
What art thou?
-- 485 --
Bast.
A bastard son of Priam's.
Ther.
I am a bastard too, I love bastards. I am a
bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind,
bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate: one
Bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one
bastard? take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to
us: If the son of a whore fight for a whore, he
tempts judgment: farewel, bastard.
Bast.
The devil take thee, coward.
[Exeunt.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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