Pan. Mark him, note him: O brave Troilus: look well upon him, niece, 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 a fifter were a grace, or 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 thape, difcourfe, manhood, learning, gentlenefs, virtue, youth, liberality, and fo forth, the fpice and falt that seasons a man?

Cre. Ay, a mince'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 lie

Gre. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my fecrecy, to defend mine honefty; my mafk, to defend my beauty; and you to defend all thefe; and at all thefe wards I lie, at a thoufand watches.

Pan. Say one of your watches.

Cre. Nay, I'll watch you for that, and that's one 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 paft hiding, and then it is part watching.

M m 2

Pan.

Boy. Sir, my Lord would inftantly speak 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 niece.

Cre. Adieu, uncle.

Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by and by. verg
Cre. To bring, uncle-

Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus.

Cre. By the fame token, you are a bawd.[Exit Panl Words, vows, gifts, tears, and Love's full facrifice,TMTM He offers in another's enterprize :

But more in Troilus thoufand-fold I fee,
Than in the glass of Pandar's praife may be ;
Yet hold I off. Women are angels wooing;
Things won are done; the foul's joy lies in doing:
That the 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;

T

T

That though my heart's content * firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear. [Exit.

Changes to Agamemnon's tent in the Grecian camp.

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

Agam. 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 largeness: checks and difafters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd;

As knots, by the conflux of meeting fap,

Infect the found pine, and divert his grainy
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Nor, Princes, is it matter new to us,

That we come thort of our fuppofe so far,

That after fev'n years' fiege, yet Troy walls ftand;
Sith every action that hath gone before,
Whereof we have record, trial did draw
Bias and thwart; not anfwering the aim,
And that unbodied figure of the thought

That gave't furmifed thape. 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 trials 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 foft, feem 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;
And what hath mafs, or matter by itself,
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.

Naft. With due obfervance of thy goodly feat,
Great Agamemnon, Neftor fhall fupply
Thy latest words. In the reproof of Chance
Lies the true proof of men: the fea being fmooth,
How many fhallow bauble boats do 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,

T

کچھ

The ftrong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cuts;
Bounding between the two moift elements,

Like Perieus' horfe: where's then the faurcy boat,
Whole
ole weak antimber'd fides but even now

Co-rival'd greatnefs? or to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even fo
Doth valour's fhew and valour's worth divide

In ftorms of Fortune. For in her ray and brightnefa The herd hath more annoyance by the brize an Than by the tyger: but when fplitting, winds,

Make

Make flexible the knees of knotted oaks,

And flies get under fhade; the thing of courage,C As rous'd with rage, with rage doth fympathize; A And, with an accent tun'd in felf-fame key, or il Returns to chiding Fortune

Agamemnon,

г

I

Ul 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 thut up; hear what Ulyffes fpeaks, Befides the applaufe and approbation The which molt mighty for thy place and fway, [To Agamemnon. And thou most rev'rend for thy ftretch'd-out life, [To Neftor. I give to both your fpeeches; which were fuch, 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, strong as the axle-tree. I'
On which heav'n rides, knit all the Grecians' ears.
To his experience'd tongue yet let it please both
(Thou great and wife, to hear Ulyffes fpeak.
Aga. Speak, Prince of Ithaca; we lefs expect,
That matter needlefs, of importless burthens
Divide thy lips, than we are confident,
When rank Therfites opes his mastiff jaws,
We fhall hear mufic, wit, and oracle. ‹

A

Uly. Troy, yet upon her bafis, had been down, A And the great Hector's fword had lack'd a master, But for thefe instances.

The ipecialty of rule hath been neglected;
And look, how many Grecian tents do ftand
Hollow upon this plain, fo many hollow factions.{
When that the General not likes the hive, b
To whom the foragers thall all repair,

What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,
Th' unworthieft fhews as fairly in the mafk. Bah
The heavens themfelves, the planets, and this centre,
Observe degree, priority and place,

*It is faid ei he tyger, that in ftoms and winds he rages and roars moit futoully.

Infifture,

Infiture, courfe, proportion, feafon, form.
Office and custom, in all line of order:
And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence inthron'd and ipher'd
Amidst the rest, whofe med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill afpects of planets evil,

And ports 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 feath king of earth?
Commotion in the winds frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate
The unity and married calm of states

Quite from their fixure (Which is the ladder to Then enterprize is fick.

Ch, when Degree is fhaken, all high defigns),

How could communities,
Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable fhores,'
The primogeniture, and due of birth,'
Prerogative of age, crowns, fceptres, laurels,
(But by degree), ftand in authentic place?
Take but degree away, untune that itring,
And hark what difcord follows; each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters
Would lift their bofoms higher than the hores,'
And make a fop of all this folid globe:
Strength would be lord of Imbecillity,

And the rude fon would strike his father dead:
Force would be right; or rather right and wrong
Between whofe endless jar Justice prefides)
Would lofe their names, and fo would Juftice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,

• Power into will, will into appetite;

6

And appetite (an univerfal wolf,

So doubly feconded with will and power)",
Mult make perforce an univerfal prey,

And laft eat up itfelf Great

gamemnon'! 7

This chaos, when Degree is fuffocate,

Follows the choking:

And this neglection of Degree is it,

That by a pace goes backward, in a purpose r

It