Reading The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida — William Shakespeare

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Coe beare Patroclus body to Achilles,

And bid the snaile‑pac'd Aiax arme for

shame:

There is a thousand Hectors in the field:

Now here he fights on Galathe his Horse,

And there lacks worke: anon he's there a foote,

And there they flye or dye, like scaled sculs,

Before the belching Whale; then is he yonder,

And there the straying Greekes, ripe for his edge,

Fall downe before him, like the mowers swath;

Here, there, and euery where, he leaues and takes;

Dexteritie so obaying appetite,

That what he will, he does, and does so much,

That proofe is call'd impossibility.

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