14881063But called it an honest methode, as wholesome as sweete.

14891064Come, a speech in it I chiefly remember

1065Was AEneas tale to Dido,

14901066And then especially where he talkes of Princes slaughter,

14911067If it liue in thy memory beginne at this line,

14921068Let me see.

1069The rugged Pyrrus, like th'arganian beast:

14931070No t'is not so, it begins with Pirrus:

1493.11071O I haue it.

14941072The rugged Pirrus, he whose sable armes,

14951073Blacke as his purpose did the night resemble,

14961074When he lay couched in the ominous horse,

14971075Hath now his blacke and grimme complexion smeered

14981076With Heraldry more dismall, head to foote,

14991077Now is he totall guise, horridely tricked

15001078With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sonnes,

15011079Back't and imparched in calagulate gore,

15031080Rifted in earth and fire, olde grandsire Pryam seekes:

1503.11081So goe on.

15071082Cor. Afore God, my Lord, well spoke, and with good (accent.

15091083Play. Anone he finds him striking too short at Greeks,

15101084His antike sword rebellious to his Arme,

15111085Lies where it falles, vnable to resist.

15131086Pyrrus at Pryam driues, but all in rage,

1087Strikes wide, but with the whiffe and winde

15141088Of his fell sword, th'unnerued father falles.

15381089Cor. Enough my friend, t'is too long.

15391090Ham. It shall to the Barbers with your beard:

15401091A pox, hee's for a Iigge, or a tale of bawdry,

1092Or else he sleepes, come on to Hecuba, come.

15421093Play. But who, O who had seene the mobled Queene?

15441094Cor. Mobled Queene is good, faith very good.

15501095Play. All in the alarum and feare of death rose vp,

15491096And o're her weake and all ore-teeming loynes, a blancket

15471097And a kercher on that head, where late the diademe stoode,

15511098Who this had seene with tongue inuenom'd speech,