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well upon him, neice, look you how his fword is bloodied, and his helm more hack'd than Hector's, and how he looks, and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er faw three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way; had I a fifter were a Grace 7 and a daughter a Goddefs, he fhould take his choice. O admirable man! Paris? Paris is dirt to him, and I warrant Helen to change would give money to boot.

Enter common Soldiers.

Cre. Here come more.

Pan. Affes, fools, dolts, chaff and bran, chaff and bran; porridge after meat. I could live and die i'th' eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look; the eagles are gone; crows and daws, crows and daws. I had rather be fuch a man as Troilus, than Agamemnon and all Greece.

Cre. There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.

Pan. Achilles? a dray-man, a porter, a very camel. Cre. Well, well,

Pan. Well, well-why, have you any difcretion? have you any eyes? do you know what a man is? is not birth, beauty, good fhape, difcourfe, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and fo forth, the fpice and falt that feafons a man?

Cre. Ay, a minc'd man, and then to be bak'd with no date in the pye, for then the man's date is out. Pan. You are fuch another woman, one knows not at what ward you lye.

Cre. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my fecrefie, to defend mine honesty; my mask to defend my beauty, and you to defend all thefe: 'at all these wards I lye, 'and at` a thousand watches.

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Pan. Say one of your watches.

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Cre. Nay, I'll watch you for that, and that's one

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of the chiefeft of them too; if I cannot ward what I would not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the blow, unless it fwell past hiding, and then it is paft watching.

Pan. You are fuch another!

Enter Boy.

Boy. Sir, my Lord would inftantly fpeak with you. Pan. Where.

Boy. At your own house, there he unarms him.

Pan. Good boy, tell him I come; I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good neice.

Cre. Adieu, uncle.

Pan. I'll be with you, neice, by and by.

Cre. To bring, uncle

Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus.

Cre. By the fame token, you are a bawd.

[Exit Pandaruss

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full facrifice,
He offers in another's enterprize:

But more in Troilus thoufand-fold I fee,
Than in the glafs of Pandar's praise may be.
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing,
Things won are done, the foul's joy lies in doing;
That She belov'd knows nought that knows not this;
Men prize the thing ungain'd, more than it is.
That She was never yet, that ever knew
Love got, fo fweet, as when defire did fue:
Atchievement is, command; ungain'd, befeech.
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach;
That though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that fhall from mine eyes appear.

(a) By Content here is meant Capacity.

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Agamemnon's Tent in the Grecian Camp.

Trumpets. Enter Agamemnon, Neftor, Ulyffes, Diomedes, Menelaus, with others.

Aga. PRINCES,

What grief hath fet the jaundice on your cheeks?

The ample propofition that hope makes

In all defigns begun on earth below,

Fails in the promis'd largenefs; checks and disasters
Grow in the veins of actions higheft rear'd:

As knots by the conflux of meeting fap
Infect the found pine, and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Nor, princes, is it matter new to us,
That we come short of our suppose so far,
That after fev'n years fiege, yet Troy walls ftand;
Sith every action, that have gone before,
Whereof we have record, tryal did draw
Bias and thwart; not answering the aim,
And that unbodied figure of the thought

That gave't furmised shape. Why then, you Princes,
Do
you with cheeks abash'd behold our works,

And think them fhame, which are, indeed, nought elfe
But the protractive tryals of great Jove,

To find perfiftive conftancy in men?
The fineness of which metal is not found

In fortune's love; for there, the bold and coward,
The wife and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin'd, and kin ;
But in the wind and tempeft of her frown,
Diftinction with a broad and powerful fan
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;

1 for then,

And

And what hath mass or matter, by it felf
Lyes rich in virtue, and unmingled.

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Neft. With due obfervance of thy 'godlike` feat,
Great Agamemnon, Neftor fhall apply

Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance
Lyes the true proof of men: the fea being smooth,
How many fhallow bauble boats dare fail

Upon her patient breaft, making their way
With thofe of nobler bulk!

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and anon, behold,

The ftrong-ribb'd bark thro' liquid mountains cuts,
Bounding between the two moift elements,
Like Perfeus' horfe: Where's then the fawcy boat,
Whose weak untimber'd fides but even now
Co-rival'd Greatnefs? or to harbour fled,
Or made a toaft for Neptune. Even fo
Doth valour's fhew and valour's worth divide
In ftorms of fortune. For in her ray and brightness
The herd hath more annoyance by the brize
Than by the tyger: but when splitting winds
Make flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
And flies get under fhade; the thing of courage,
As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth fympathize,
And with an accent tun'd in felf-fame key
3'Replies to chiding fortune. a

Ulyf. Agamemnon,

Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Heart of our numbers, foul, and only spirit,

In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be fhut up: hear what Ulysses speaks.

Befides th' applause and approbation

The which, moft mighty for thy place and fway, [To Agam. And thou, most rev'rend for thy ftretcht-out life, [To Neft. I give to both your fpeeches, which were fuch

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(a) It is faid of the Tyger, that in forms and high winds he rages and roars moft furiously.

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As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
Should hold up high in brafs; and fuch again
As venerable Neftor (hatch'd in filver)
Should with a bond of air, ftrong as the axle-tree
On which heav'n rides, knit all the Grecian ears
To his experienc'd tongue: yet let it please both
(Though great, and wife) to hear Ulyffes fpeak.
Aga. Speak, Prince of Ithaca: we lefs expect
That matter needlefs, of importless burthen,
Divide thy lips; than we are confident,
When rank Therfites opes his mastiff jaws,
We fhall hear mufick, wit, and oracle.

Ulyf. Troy, yet upon her bafis, had been down,
And the great Hector's fword had lack'd a mafter,
But for these instances.

The specialty of rule hath been neglected;
And look how many Grecian tents do ftand
Upon this plain, fo many hollow factions.
When that the general is not like the hive,
To which the foragers fhall all repair,
What honey is expected? degree being vizarded,
Th' unworthiest fhews as fairly in the mask.
The heav'ns themfelves, the planets, and this center,
Obferve degree, priority and place,

Infifture, courfe, proportion, feafon, form,
Office and cuftom, in all line of order:
And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd
Amidst the reft, whofe med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill afpects of planets evil,
And pofts like the commandment of a king,
Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets
In evil mixture to diforder wander,

What plagues, and what portents, what mutiny!
What raging of the fea! Thaking of earth!

Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate

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