Reading The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida — William Shakespeare

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Troy.

This she? no, this is Diomids Cressida:

If beautie haue a soule, this is not she:

If soules guide vowes; if vowes are sanctimonie;

If sanctimonie be the gods delight:

If there be rule in vnitie it selfe,

This is not she: O madnesse of discourse!

That cause lets vp, with, and against thy selfe

By soule authoritie: where reason can reuolt

Without perdition, and losse assume all reason,

Without reuolt. This is, and is not Cressid:

Within my soule, there doth conduce a fight

Of this strange nature, that a thing inseperate,

Diuides more wider then the skie and earth:

And yet the spacious bredth of this diuision,

Admits no Orifex for a point as subtle,

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