605574Growes dainty of his worth, and in his Tent

606575Lies mocking our designes: with him Patroclus

607576Vpon a lazie bed the liue-long day,

608577Breakes scurrell iests,

609578And with ridiculous and sillie action,

610579Which (slanderer) he Imitation calls,

611580He pageants vs. Some-time great Agamemnon,

612581Thy toplesse deputation he puts on,

613582And like a strutting Player, whose conceit

614583Lyes in his ham-string, and doth thinke it rich

615584To heere the woodden dialogue and sound,

616585Twixt his stretcht footing and the scoaffollage,

617586Such to be pitied and ore-rested seeming,

618587He acts thy greatnesse in. And when he speakes,

619588Tis like a chime a mending, with termes vnsquare,

620589Which from the tongue of roaring Tiphon dropt,

621590Would seeme hiperboles, at this fustie stuffe,

622591The large Achilles on his prest bed lolling,

623592From his deepe chest laughes out a lowd applause,

624593Cries excellent; 'tis Agamemnon right,

625594Now play me Nestor, hem and stroake thy beard,

626595As he being drest to some Oration,

627596That's done, as neere as the extremest ends

628597Of paralells, as like as Uulcan and his wife:

629598Yet god Achilles still cries excellent,

630599Tis Nestor right: now play him me Patroclus,

631600Arming to answer in a night alarme,

632601And then forsooth the faint defects of age,

633602Must be the scaene of myrth, to coffe and spit,

634603And with a palsie fumbling on his gorget,

635604Shake in and out the riuet, and at this sport

636605Sir valour dyes, cryes O enough Patroclus,

637606Or giue me ribbs of steele, I shall split all

638607In pleasure of my spleene, and in this fashion,

639608All our abilities, guifts, natures shapes,

640609Seueralls and generalls of grace exact,

641610Atchiuements, plots, orders, preuentions,

642611Excitements to the field, or speech for truce,

C Successe