Troilus and Cressida

Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits On one and other side, Trojan and Greek, Sets all on hazard.

现在，双方的期待，刺激着轻率的士气，特洛伊和希腊人，都置于危险之中。

And hither am I come A prologue arm’d, but not in confidence Of author’s pen or actor’s voice, but suited In like conditions as our argument, To tell you, fair beholders, that our play Leaps o’er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils, Beginning in the middle; starting thence away, To what may be digested in a play.

我来到这里，作为武装的开场白，不是出于对作者笔触或演员声音的信心，而是适应我们争论的条件，来告诉你们，公正的观众，我们的戏剧跳过了那些争吵的开始和起源，从中间开始；从那里开始，到可以在戏剧中消化的内容。