out fear. To fear the worst, oft cures the worse. Troi. Nothing but our undertakings; when we vow to weep feas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tygers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devife impofition enough, than for us to undergo any diffi culty impofed. This is the monftrofity in love, Lady, that the will is in inite, and the execution confin'd; that the defire is boundless, and the act a flave to limit.. Cre. They fay all lovers fwear more performance than they are able; and yet referve an ability, that they never perform: vowing more than the perfec tion of ten, and difcharging less than the tenth part of one. They that have the voice of lions, and the act of hares, are they not monsters? Toi Are there fuch? fuch are not we. Praise us as we are tafted, allow us as we prove our head thall go bare till merit crown it; no perfection in reverfion fhall have a praife in prefent; we will not name defert before his birth, and, being born, his addition fhall be humble; few words to fair faith. Troilus fhall be fuch to Crellida, as what envy can fav worft, fhall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can speak trueft, not truer than Troilus. Cre. Will you walk in, my Lord? Pan. What, blushing fill? Have you not done talking yet? Cre. Well, uncle, what folly I commit I dedicate to you! Pan. I thank you for that; if my Lord get a boy of you, you'll give him me. Be true to my Lord; if he finch, chide me for it. t 1. You know now your hostages; your unch's word d and my firm faith Pan. Nay, I'll give my word for her too; our kins dred, though they be long ere they are woo'd, they are conftant, being won. They are burrs, I can tell you, they'll stick where they are thrown. Cre Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart. Prince Troilus, I have lov'd you night and day, Tro. Why was my Creffid then fo hard to win? Cre. Hard to feem won; but I was won, my Lord, With the first glance that ever Pardon me If I confefs much, you will play the tyrant. grown See, we fools! But though I fov'd you well, I woo'd you not; Of speaking firft Sweet, bid me hold my tongue; The thing I fhall repent. See, fee, your filence,. Cunning in dumbnefs, from my weakness draws My very foul of counlel. Stop my mouth." 7 roi And fhall, albeit fweet music iflues thence. Pan. Pretty, i'faith. [Kiffing ► Cre. My Lord, I do befeech you, pardon me, 'Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kifs I am afham'd; heav'ns, what have I done?For this time will I take my leave, my Lord. Troi. Your leave, fweet Creffid? Pan. Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning Cre. Pray you content you. Trei. What offends you, Lady? Cre. Sir, mine own company. I have a kind of leif refides with vou: I would be gone. I fpeak I know not what. Troi. Well know they what they speak that speak fo wifely. Cre. Perchance, my Lord, I fhew more craft than And fell fo roundly to a large confellion, love, To feed for ay her lamp and flames of love, Might be affronted with the match and weight Troi. O virtuous fight! When Right with Right wars who shall be most right.. As Truth's authentic author to be cited †, Cre. Prophet may you be ! If I be falfe, or fwerve a hair from truth, -as floodage to the moon. Revifal. Troilus, fays he, fhall crown the verfe, as a man to be cited as the authentic author of truth, as one whofe roteftations were true to a proverb. Johnjen. When Time is old and hath forgot itself, When water-drops have worn the stones of Troy, From falle to falle, among falie maids in love, Pan. Go to, a bargain made. Seal it, feal it, I' be the witnefs. Here I hold your hand; here my coufin's. If ever you prove faife to one another, fince I have taken fuch pains to bring you to gether, let all pitiful goers-between be call'd to the world's end after my name; call them all Panders. Let all inconstant men be Troilus's, all falfe women. Greffida's, and all brokers between Panders. Say, Amen, Troi. Amen! Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will fhew you a bedchamber; which bed, because it fhall not speak of your pretty encounters, prefs it to death. Away.. And Cupid grant all tongue-ty'd maidens here, Bed, chamber, and Pandar to provide this geer! [Exeunt. Changes to the Grecian Camp. Enter Agamemnon, Ulyffes, Diomedes, Neftor, Ajax, Menelaus, and Calchas. Cal. Now, Princes, for the fervice I have done you, Th' advantage of the time prompts me aloud To call for recompence. Appear it to your mind That, through the fight I bear in things, to Jove I have abandon'd Troy, left my poffeffion, Incurr'd a traitor's name, expos'd myself, From certain and poffefs'd conveniences, To doubtful fortunes; fequeftring from me all. Out of those many regiftred in promife, Agam. What wouldst thou of us, Trojans? make demand. Cal. You have a Trojan prifoner, call'd Antenor, Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you, often have you, thanks therefore, Defir'd my Creflid in right-great exchange, Whom Troy hath ftill deny'd; but this Antenor, I know, is fuch a wreft in their affairs, That their negotiations all must slack, Wanting his manage, and they will almoft Give us a prince o' th' blood, a fon of Priam, In change of him. Let him be fent, great Princes, And he shall buy my daughter, and her prefence Shall quite ftrike off all fervice I have done, In most accepted pain *. Agom. Let Diomedes bear him, And bring us Creflid hither; Calchas fhall have Enter Achilles and Patroclus before their tent. Achilles ftands i' th' entrance of his tent 3 Please it our General 10 pais ftrangely by him, Her prefence, fays Calchas, fhall strike off, or recomperce the service I have done, even in the e labours which were most accepted. Johnson. |