When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
And they did make no noise, in such a night
Troilus methinks mounted the Trojan walls
And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents
Where Cressid lay that night.
LORENZO
The moon’s bright tonight. I think that on a night like this, when the wind blew the trees so gently that they didn’t make a sound,
TROILUS
Troilus was the son of King Priam of Troy. His lover, Cressida, was sent to the Greek camp, where she betrayed him.
Troilus climbed up onto the walls of Troy and sighed for Cressida in the Greek camp.