He says that what Diomedes gets is the begnawed and bitten meats, fragments and refuse. Troilus has moved from a judgment upon Cressida’s act to a curse upon his rival. Ulysses who is dispassionate and slightly sarcastic says: ‘May worthy Troilus be half attach’d/With that which here his passion doth express?’ He means, ‘Can Troilus be half as much moved as his speech suggests?’

Troilus who perceives the sarcasm replies ‘Ay Greek.’ He says that never did a young man love with so eternal and so fixed a soul as he loved Cressida, and just as much does he hate her Diomedes. He says that the sleeve Diomedes’ will bear on his helm belongs to him, and even if it was an armor composed by Vulcan’s skill, he would still attack it with his sword. He says that when his eager sword falls on Diomedes it will create a greater noise than a descending waterspout would.

Thersites comments that Troilus will give Diomed the beating of his life and will enjoy doing it. Troilus wails about Cressida’s falseness and says: ‘Let all untruths stand by thy stained name, /And they’ll seem glorious.’ Ulysses tells him to contain himself, as his passionate outbursts were drawing people there. Enter Aeneas. Aeneas says that he has been looking for Troilus. Hector is preparing to set off for Troy, and Ajax is waiting to conduct him home.

Ulysses offers to escort him to the gates. Troilus, in keeping with his state, asks him to ‘Accept distracted thanks.’ Troilus, Aeneas and Ulysses exit. Thersites says that he would croak like a raven if he met Diomedes - the croaking of a raven bodes misfortune. He says that Patroclus would give him anything for information concerning ‘this whore.’ A parrot wouldn’t do more for an almond than he would for ‘a commodious drab.’ Again he reflects on the nature of the War: ‘lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery! Nothing else holds fashion. A burning devil takes them!’

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